Been playing games since the Atari/NES days, when metacritic was but a gleam in fanboys' parents' eyes. Never was 70 -aka 7/10- considered to be suck 'til this gen. I've already seen it brought up a couple times in this thread. Boggles my mind everytime. Standards and scales were different back then. Basically, people could still think for themselves. Imagine that.
Agenda no. Quite the contrary, I remember quite well what Smythe wrote initially pre-edit. Eg. It DID say 11 members on the team, now it says 8. It's been brought up before on N4G 2 months ago http://n4g.com/news/885310/... and that's when the quotes were taken from the site. But I'll revisit it now.
"Anythi...
Prey and Metro died on console their last time out. Not sure how they're suddenly promising enough to be listed next to BioWare, Irrational and NaughtyDog. Oh well.
They haven't changed at all since their supposed ' 3 million hits' direction change. They're still stealth trolls writing under pseudonyms, like with Resistance3 in this article:
"Anything short of that, and gamers will collectively shrug their shoulders, a la the Resistanceseries. [Ed.: Resistance 3had so much potential after the sky-high expectations of the second title, but just fell through, unforunately."
Wtf does Resistance have to do w...
Not anymore.
Pretty much everything by EA caters to the PS3. BF3, MOH, Dante's Inferno, MassEffect2, NFS The Run, DeadSpace2. All had extra content, DLC, skins, bundles, items, games -see Extraction- etc and performed just as good if not better.
MortalKombat PS3 ran good and had 3D & Kratos, Portal2 had exclusive Steam support and ran better, DeadSpace2 had free DeadSpaceExtraction HD and ran great, LA Noire performed better and had exclusive DLC, Sa...
@timotim
Very little diversity? Okay -now- who's being the fanboy, lol! Look, the cheapest consoles always sell the most. Fact. You're reading way too much 2006 into this.
Taking ownership of multiplat games for the 360 while downplaying exclusives just sounds flaky, especially while running the diversity gitch up the flagpole. It just doesn't fly. Multiplats are called such for a reason. Timed DLC is not diversity. If you're happy with fewer games to ...
Another cheap hits piece from that site?! I don't know what's worse. Them, or N4G for continuously supporting their cr@p by linking to it and stickying it. Then people lose bubbles. Ironic, that N4G perpetuates this roadmap to cr@p by supporting the very antagonists that get people trolling in the first place. You reap what you sow. Why would anyone willingly link themselves to sites/blogs like these?
How many times can Space Marines take 1000 bullets in their sleeveless shirts and survive ridiculous crashes without so much as a scratch? It's getting old, come on Epic, Bungie, Visceral, GG, Insomniac, Crytek, BioWare, Relic, Volition, Gearbox etc.
Exactly. Nothing desperate about that list, especially in the casual game Kinect VS Move department.
Kinectimals = Eyepet
Kinect Sports = Sports Champions
Dance Central = Singstar Dance, Everybody Dance, DanceDance Revolution 2010
GunStringer = DeadSpace Extraction, The Shoot, HouseoftheDead Overkill, ModernCombat Domination, TimeCrisis RazingStorm
I mean c'mon now.
Even genre wise. Why pine for an old N64 XBLA...
@Cyrax
You're even missing out some better sellers than ones like Disgaea.
Yakuza 4 800k
Resistance 3 920k
ICO/SOTC HD Collection 570k
That's 500k more than Forza 4 right there. Hey, HD Collections are games too.Sorry Frankfurt, but you just ate crow. The numbers are there, they're just spread out over more than 2 games. One could even throw on another 430k for DC Universe before free to play. It just keeps going.
"The reality is over 85% of games released in a calender year are multi-platform games."
and the reality is most of those are garbage. The lowest rated games on meta and poorest selling on vgchartz for 2011 are multiplats.
LBP2, UC3, MLB11TheShow, Gears3, Forza4, ICO/SOTC, Zelda SkywardSword, Minecraft etc scored better than hyped multiplats like DeusEx, Dark Souls, LA Noire, MW3, BF3, Crysis2, Rage, Bulletstorm, AC Revelations, Child of Eden, Shad...
I see you've never played either. Cool story.
By some of the 8 mil or bust logic I've read in this thread -- Crackdown 2, NinetyNineNights, Metro 2033, Deadly Premonition, Perfect Dark Zero, Prey, Forza 4, Project Gotham, Earth Defense Force, 1 vs 100, Alan Wake, Lost Oyssey, Too Human, Viva Pinata must be jealous. Where's their spotlight article pondering why they too as exclusives failed to set the bargain bins on fire? Hey, gotta be fair. Right?
See how ludicrous this whole partisan "struggling" angl...
Crysis 2 had boring art direction. You seen one level or Manhattan map cutscene, you seen them all. Throw in some pop-in, bugs and painted on garbage in the water and suddenly it loses its lustre. I was more impressed by Crysis 1 on consoles.
Roots? That makes no sense considering how similar KZ2 & KZ3 look and play. Nowhere near the difference between KZ1 and KZ2, or Liberation. Still the same frenetic action, good MP and high production values. A few things I missed like choosing my own servers and the detailed online stat tracking. Story's never been as good as Resistance, but overall it's not a disappointment with games like Socom 4 and Move Heroes kickin around.
@Arb
That's why I called metacritic flawed and broken. You just posting wrong information, thought I'd help ya out. Eg. BioShock isn't a 360 exclusive, it's on PS3 too. Mass Effect is on PC. You forgot about Uncharted2, MGS4, ICO/SOTC on the other side. Not sure where the 'rabid fanboy' comment comes from.
Your numbers are -still- wrong. As the article says, there are 12 PS3 exclusives > 90 all-time. Don't know where you got 10 from. Less than 10 XBox exclusives too when you take out PC multiplats like Gears1 and ME1. I just re-counted them.
Moot point anyways. Is there really that much of a dif' between an 89 avg and a 90? Are Demon's Souls and Ratchet & Clank lesser exclusives to some people for missing 90% by one percent, one vote? Naw.
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Opposite for me. ME2 came out in Jan, BF3 & Skyrim in Oct/Nov. That's a huge gap between your choice cuts. I couldn't wait that long between games. Filled those 10 months with KZ3, LBP2, MS:A, inFamous2, Yakuza4, R3, UC3, GOW:Origins etc.
Multiplats like Fear, Call of Juarez, Driver, Duke Nukem, Child of Eden, Shadows of the Damned, Dead Island, LA Noire, Deus Ex did nothing for me. BF3 beta was bad, Skyrim PS3 is broken, Rage was all fetch quests. I liked Dead Sp...
How the heck do you know that? None of us have played it, yet people are talking like they've already platinumed it and traded it in.
Dead Island should have taught everybody not to over-analyse a game based on the announcement trailer. Heck, almost every announcement trailer ever has been off somehow, from Saints Row 3 to Batman AC. R3's used real actors depicting a scene that wasn't even in the final game, lol. Nothing to see here.
Underrated series. Part 3 and 4 were awesome