Edge gave Mass Effect 7/10, because they're unafraid of stating their opinions even when they might lie outside the norm. Kind of like what they've done here.
But if it suits your worldview to just glibly dismiss Edge as taking Microsoft bribes, continue in believing that. Someone who considers IGN the best source for reviews should probably be left alone.
Did you also notice that Edge is a Future Publishing production which takes advertising from every single games company under the sun, and prints PR official magazines for all three platform holders?
Please don't buy into thereapersson's baseless conspiracy theories, it speaks very badly of your own "intellectual" capability. Because no one here actually buys the magazine, and only follow the ridiculous idiot flames on N4G, you'll have failed to notice that Edge adore ...
No, it's your opinion that this game is not a 6.
It's Edge's opinion that it is. For a publication to be credible, they have to be true to what they believe. If you're grown up with IGN and Gamespot, where awarding everything 8/10 was the de facto standard until very recently, then that's probably a concept that is entirely alien to you.
Reviewers have a duty to state their opinion, whether or not it agrees with the consensus or otherwise. It is not their job to s...
Bag an exclusive, market it to hell, and idiots will lap it up no matter how flawed it is, and defend it to the hilt with their broken console-purchase justification arguments.
I cannot believe that anyone can take your argument seriously, your idea of journalistic integrity has been seriously corrupted, and if this is your typical quality of argument, then the extra bubble you have shows the depths of which the N4G audience has fallen to.
For you, journalistic credibility is not about stating opinions. It's about following the crowd. Instead of actively contributing to the Metacritic average, or whatever index you follow, you believe reviewers shou...
Have you played Left4Dead at all?
The pathfinding AI is some of the best there is, there is absolutely nowhere the infected can't climb. The AI director is superb, getting the pacing and variety right every play through.
If it weren't so, then there wouldn't be so many moments when a hunter has manage to pounce one of your team, or when a smoker has dragged one of your guys off.
The weapons may be basic, but they all do a separate clearly defined ...
What are you talking about? Review embargoes happen all the time, remember Assassin's Creed? Publishers exercise this option for every one of their major releases.
Are there any Canadian sources with any kind of global reach or influence? How is your law protecting you?
Anyone spamming Metacritic scores out of spite, are utter morons.
Resistance 2 - 1/10
Gears of War 2 - 1/10
All morons.
There were two points to the post at Kotaku, to comment on that the exclusivity label was purely a marketing ploy, and to publicise the deal. They succeeded in both.
It's unsurprising that the N4G crowd have played the Sony media conspiracy card. This is the same audience who championed a perceived Columbia Films NXE block, even though it would have been anti-competitive and anti-consumer.
Well done N4G. You have a broken comments system, promoting incestuous ...
I clearly stated the reasons why Sony wouldn't do this in the original thread at http://www.n4g.com/NewsCom-... .
I also clearly spelt out why had this perceived move been true that it would have been anti-competitive and anti-consumer. Yet idiot Sony retards still championed it, championing the very business policies that were detrimental to consumers as a whole.
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That's fine, I recommend the ignore button, but you'll be using that a lot being that you choose to live in the past.
I much prefer the thousands of processors dedicated to open medical research, to government darknets dedicated to nuke simulation.
In the UK, there has been a fair amount of advertising, especially in print media, the "Made entirely in LBP" adverts have popped up in quite a few publications. The advert held the entire front page of popular Freesheet The London Paper a month or so back.
But this does not compare to the amount of publicity it got on prime time news regarding the removal of Koranic verses. That made all the news channels, and given the relative obscurity of the title before it, ca...
LittleBigPlanet is a triumph of design, it might not have the burly mass of the Gears of Wars fans, but it's a title which will sell for a long while, and can't have cost that much to develop.
It's a platform on top of which other things will be sold. I have a feeling that people are still holding off this title due to a lack of decent user created content, that can only get better in future.
You're right, if this is true (which I doubt), then it isn't just screwing over Sony customers, it's screwing the consumer over. And the fact that the majority of users on this thread seem to champion this, just shows what an imbecilic audience N4G has.
If you support this, then it's the same as supporting iTunes' Ipod only tracks, it's the same as supporting Microsoft's restrictive exclusivity landgrabs. Do you want a future where the only music you can play on your Walkman co...
We can all state facts, "the sky is blue", the issue was that it wasn't relevant, you understand this right?
And Swordfish, if you're going to use past performance as an indication of current performance, then you're validating the HD-DVDtards' position of bringing up Betamax when people talk Blu-Ray. I know you want to come to the defence of your friend, but is this what you really want to say?
If you're going on 2004 performance, then Lehman Brothers' st...
I didn't even mention Sony, but I'm going to call out blatantly fallacious arguments when I see them.
Although you say you superficially agree with Oner, your argument actually suggests that you don't. Oner never actually mentions Nintendo, but using the Xbox to comment on current performance is the as erroneous as using the Gamecube to comment on current performance, something you actually call out.
You mention the handheld market, but sentiments regarding the hand...
First off, I do not think Columbia have blacklisted the Xbox360 service because they are a Sony subsidiary. Aside from the fact that Sony's separate business divisions have never had this level of cohesion, such a move will be greatly detrimental to Sony's image in the eyes of hardware manufacturers, and the film industry has never operated in such a way, something which I do not think will change.
What is astonishing on this thread, is the blind irrational loyalty to a company ...
Haha, good one. You do understand that "going to" is future tense right? You could have just answered no, that you weren't going to, it would have been fine. I seem to touch a nerve there, it wasn't my intention to get you so worked up.
And the HD-DVDtard analogy is directly in line into how you erronesouly bring up past products and business lines as examples of current performance. When people bring up Sony and media formats, it always descends into the past, some...
The original Killzone sold well enough, regardless of quality, to justify an expensive sequel.
I'm pretty sure that Killzone 2 will do even better. Especially as it's being released in the post holiday hole with little competition.