It's kind of surreal remembering this, considering that lots of gaming publications thought the PSP would murder the DS. I even remember a G4TechTV review using the phrase "a DS game in a PSP world" when talking about the Rayman DS game.
I do think that the lower price and two-screen design caught people's attention. There were some awesome games on DS that had a lot of cool uses of the control tech (even if there were also some games that didn't). I sti...
To a point, I agree, but "objectivity" is a word that's thrown about a lot in the gaming and criticism world, but it's much harder to achieve than some may think.
I can understand working TOWARD objectivity, but you cannot achieve it without degrading the review itself. If a review was completely objective, it wouldn't be a review. It would simply be stating specs and design structures of the game itself. It would be completely robotic.
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Agreed. Gameplay videos and impression multimedia like Giant Bomb's Quick Looks are fantastic ways to get an idea of if a game is something to your liking.
A score or verdict shouldn't be the sole factor in making the decision of whether or not the game is worth buying. It's better to let the game speak for itself instead of having someone else speak for the game.
When a new GTA game is released, the Fox News executives just stop what they're doing and focus every bit of the channel's resources to showing how violent/sexual/terrible they think it is. I swear, this series is like candy to them. It makes them start having seizures of joy.
I wasn't sure, so I didn't want to say it did without confirmation on my end.
That's the direction I'd like to see the open-world genre go on a technical level. I hate load times; they're one of my gaming pet peeves. If there's any game that could benefit from the removal of intrusive load times, it's a game based around cohesive exploration without fragmentation of the game world.
It's kind of interesting seeing a game that has such huge mainstream success still be considered a fantastic game by the longtime gaming crowd. Design-wise, the GTA series has made enormous strides, even before GTA III. Technically, open-world games have been slowly moving into a realm where load times are near non-existent (I can't confirm it myself, but I've heard that GTA V has no load times during gameplay).
I can't say I'm the biggest GTA fan, but I w...
They make a ton of money by selling annual, barely improved releases of a stupidly popular franchise, then they complain about them being "more expensive to make"?
Sorry, Rubin. I don't buy that statement for a second.
It's sad that this cash-in mentality is still around, but I don't expect it to go away any time soon, since it is a form of merchandising (which is usually on the clock, especially for tie-ins). On the other hand, I do expect it to become more noticeable, what with the internet and all. These kind of games are much harder to miss nowadays.
Fortunately, even during the darkest of marketing days, we get something creative, but also respectable to the source material, li...
That's a good idea.
A reviewer who shares your views is more likely to highlight praise/problems that you actually care about instead of wasting your time with things that don't matter to you.
While I wouldn't recommend choosing only one reviewer to listen to and putting only their opinion into consideration, I can see the practicality in your suggestion. Intelligent.
In response to your reply to my comment...
The average rating is terribly skewed on Amazon. I personally don't feel confident buying any product with a rating lower than 4 stars. That's just me, though.
However, I do agree that many consumers are more honest than many professional reviews. They speak their minds and will signify the specific issues they have with a game (making the collection of exact information easier), as opposed to many profession...
I can see why that would be better, but not everyone who leaves a customer review on Amazon would evaluate a game fairly, just as not every professional review on Metacritic would evaluate a game fairly.
The importance of reading a review isn't the score; it's the info supporting the score. If any reviewer, casual or professional, says a game has linear gameplay, you can then use that information yourself in your purchase decision. If you personally don't like lin...
Just wait until Pokemon X/Y get released. The 3DS games are kicking it into overdrive this year.
So what you're saying is "this site's opinion should be my opinion"? Kind of egotistic, don't ya think?
Sunshine in HD? The colors...so much color...!
The author argues throughout the entire article that Nintendo should implement an achievement system, then at the last minute, says it's not important right now and moves on to just bashing the Wii U in general and pushing the reader to buy a PS4 or Xbox One. Quote in point:
"Or if you just wait until November 15 – 22, you can grab a PlayStation 4 and/or Xbox One. Both will have a bigger catalogue of software in three months time, will have actual marketing campaigns...
There are a lot of problems with this entire scene.
I personally am more interested in how the 3D works in the battles. Yes, it's bad that we don't at least have the option in the overworld, but it shouldn't be a major deterrent to the game itself.
Before this, I had never heard of the "Zelda cycle." The "Sonic cycle", yes, but I never really noticed that Zelda games "grow on people" over time.
At least Aonuma actually addressed it instead of just pretending it didn't exist.
Because video games haven't done anything positive for society...
Because no case has ever been reported that playing video games help people release that pent-up stress that would otherwise be built up and eventually released in very real, very violent ways on the public...
Because one case of a shooter being very vaguely and allegedly reported to have played GTA weeks before going on a shooting spree is the deciding factor, as opposed to millions of oth...
In response to your reply to my other comment,
But in all honesty, do all journalists provide full facts? Has any...ever? You can learn just as much about a journalism outlet's policies from what they don't show on camera as what they do. What a review writer omits is just as important as what they include. Any discourse is projected through a philosophical and social lens by its creator, whether that's written, video, audio or any other sort.
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