Good call. Trust is a big part of this whole spiel. You're not going to agree with everyone, but at least go to reviews where you know the authors understand the game and review with experience in their subject material.
Review scores have plenty of convenience for readers looking for a clear-cut verdict in whether a game is good or not. The problem is that everyone uses their own scale and many scales are skewed with only 8/10 and higher being treated as "good."
Too many scales is confusing. If everyone followed the same, easy-to-figure-out scale, review scores probably wouldn't be so bad. Either way, read the text too. A number is still just a number is there isn't a reaso...
Aside from the already baffling argument that mass financial success of high-quality games are somehow "killing" Nintendo, this article is trying to make an argument without any support aside from a poor interpretation of Nintendo's success.
Enough with the mobile market argument. Why? Because Nintendo's livelihood is very dependent on their portables. Regardless of what your views on the Wii U are, you can't deny that the Game Boy, Nintendo DS, and Nint...
In honesty, I've seen less toxicity in gaming comment sections than those in...say...Facebook comments about major news events. I know that's hard to believe and it might be isolated to my own range of discussion, but I do not see why gaming comment sections are the top shelf of toxicity to so many people.
For example, look at political blogs. Regardless of your political leaning, you will NOT find a political blog that doesn't have at least one bigot on it. Same ...
Or Retro Studios.
You'd think he'd give it a go, what with mobile games being such a big deal. Put that thing on 3DS and you're golden, sir.
I hope Bandai Namco gets it instead of Ubisoft. Ubi's not doing so hot right now.
Didn't help that the game got middling review scores, a huge delay, and a high price. Seriously, I'm surprised Ubisoft even released this version.
OOOH, so that's why they didn't test the game! Because they say it's hard!
This year should've been better. Too many remakes and too many cross-gen games made buying a new console much less efficient than just sticking with a PS3 or 360. Next year will be better, though. Bloodborne, Scalebound and Uncharted 4 will keep me occupied for weeks.
Exactly. Play the good ones and ignore the bad ones. The companies will shape up once they aren't making money from their garbage.
Just Cause 3 is gonna be awesome, especially if Avalanche was paying attention to the multiplayer mod of JC2 and act accordingly.
Then don't let them do that. Don't buy broken games. Buy and support the good ones. These greedy idiots go where the money is.
There are hundreds upon thousands of games out there and they're not all the same. For every broken corporate cash-grab or microtransaction-filled mobile title, there are five games that are just plain fun to play. If you can't find a game that you dig, you're not trying hard enough. Gaming is fine.
It definitely seemed like an odd choice for a release platform. Hopefully the second game gets a console port sometime soon, because more folks should play this awesome sequel. Better yet, how about a localization of VC3 for PSN?
Didn't someone from Double Fine say that the hire-and-fire ideology is a very bad way of doing things, then this happens?
I like Erik Kain's work. Not sure if I entirely agree with a "recall", but he definitely makes an already strong case stronger with Unity's blatant dysfunction. It simply shouldn't have been released like that.
I love these games released for older gen consoles. Shows the dedication of the retro gaming community.
Leave it to Ubisoft to be the one to do it.
It sure isn't in YOUR hands, Dave, that's for sure.