Wow...just freaking wow. They reviewed half a game and it goes on metacritic. FFS, where does meta find these basement dwelling sites that can't even afford to get the game for free from the publisher. Let that sink in.
Like peeps said on the site's comments, they reviewed the online pass components of Arkham City and Dirt. I'm sure they would for BF3. But they wouldn't for U3? Pure bias bull$*%.
Guy's opinion is BS too. Says Uncharted'...
LOT is like the N4G of console comparison sites. Total gongshow. FFS, they once complimented the 360's crushed blacks on Dead Space 2 or Mass Effect 2 or something saying it looked better crushed as it mimicked the blackness of space, LMAO!
As always the brightness is too high on the PS3 and too low on the 360. Get some calibration guys.
Not this time either Batman. It's just like Arkham Asylum but with more of the things I hate, backtracking and challenge rooms. They shoulda called it Riddler City the way the guy got poetic license to vandalize the whole place in green question marks. Overrated.
Anyways, Skyrim's got a 96 on 360, same as what Batman has on PS3. 95 on PS3. Let's not lose our shirts here. Uncharted, LBP, GTA and Mass Effect have all been there before.
Now the pretentious reviews have come out from dorks like this guy that says there's not enough gameplay & its more like watching a movie. It aint Heavy Rain numbnuts, it's all gameplay. Game shows a dramatic angle or animation of Drake falling & he calls it a movie with not enough control? He FELL you idiot, what you wanna wiggle the analog stick everytime a charachter farts, lol. We supposed to move their mouths to make them talk now? STFU.
But yeah its odd...
@MichaelJackson
It is the same guy, just different hair/looks. Your GiantBomb link has a closer grunge era picture, lol. Guy needs a shower. Wiki says he's been trying to be a controversial h8r of popular games guy for over 10 years now dating back to Deus Ex in 2000. In other words, he's a gimmick. In other -other- words, completely disposable. -flush-
*taps on the shoulder* it's a videogame. Gameplay and cut scenes ARE two different things. Revelations!
Two different charachters though? Guess you missed all the gameplay on the boat and in the desert where Drake is animated quite human and fragile like. Balancing, stumbling and falling down from exhaustion. That's an extension of the cutscenes, not a disconnect. You literally have to keep the analog stick held down or he collapses and crawls. There's even a game...
@Darthjay
Ah yes, the ever present yet off topic Gears sales and exclusive bashing. Speaking of damage control, lol. That doesn't exactly scream "neutral bi-partisan" now does it?
You shouldn't be talking about exclusives being average in the same sentence you're promoting the screen tear camper fest that is BF3 anyways. It's in the same meta range as KZ3, R3, and multiplat Crysis 2 so it hardly stands taller, especially afa the camp...
"Yes the general theme ie characters, music and story may not do it for some of you..."
You could've saved yourself 3 paragraphs if you'd just stopped there.
Could've also added weird enemies, gimmicky anime combat and an overly sexualised lead that still somehow finds a way to be revolting. Just cuz they got 1 spice right, didn't stop the game from tasting like cheese.
Bayonetta is like commercial anime. You either foam at the mouth for teh speed lines and think pointy hair is the best thing ever, or you just feel dumber for having watched it. I'm in the latter.
Mega mucho combos mean squat to me when they're hooker boots coming out of the sky, hair dragons and bum butterflies. Yeah seeing Sarah Palin nekkid ruined gaming a little, but not in the way the article seems to think.
Could be fun if the fighting engine is good. They've been testing the crossover waters for some time now with lots of skins from other games showing up in LBP, ModNation, inFamous' DLC and PS Move Heroes.
Some possible skins:
Chimera
Helghast
Kratos
Nate Drake
Cole McGrath
Sackboy
Nariko
That new rifter dude from Starhawk
Sly Cooper
Ratchet
Jak
Kazuma Kiryu
Ico
Have you played Batman: Arkham City? No AA to speak of, even his mask is jaggy. Didn't stop the game from looking good and it doesn't stop R3 either.
The rain levels in St Louis look really, really nice, and it never hiccups or stutters. Enemies have physics that even the almighty Crysis doesn't have on consoles. You can blow up corpses post mortem in R3, can't in many of its peers.
Left4Dead is far more overrated. 89%? It looks like a PS2 ti...
And yet Marcus Phoenix and Commander Shepard have no jump buttons, Master Chief can't aim down the sights, AV Club gives 'em all A's. Damn you Naughty Dog and your playing by the same rules as everybody else!
"Major heat for @ScottCJones' Uncharted 3 review score! Watch our all @Naughty_Dog special ep of @reviewsontherun on Tues for the review!"
Oh look, he's got a video review they want us to watch now too exclamation point on ...
This review proves 3 things.
1) That metacritic's C = 50/100 conversion scale is inaccurate, misleading & prone to abuse.
2) That metacritic has no quality assurance to keep the trolls out. Weak for an aggregate.
3) That Scott Jones is a moron that shouldn't be allowed to write. Like...ever.
"I diedz cuz I pressd teh wrong buttonz! Stoopid Gaem! PS, play Halo & Blak Opz!" WTF was that all about, lol!
That's messed. vgchartz has Homefront XBox360 @ 771,417 USA, and KZ3 @ 1,068, 869 USA. Someone is way off here.
lol, yeah no doubt! They're like a Hydra, cut off one head and two more take its place. :o
I'll be there soon, lost 1 today for having a harmless rib/wink at a guy that literaly trolls every PS3 article he posts in with doom, instigates yet doesn't get banned. Friends in high places, lol, or just a $&*# system that sets people up to fail? Funny how the 50+ agrees I had in a post before don't count for $%^&, yet career trolls get the run of the place.
Anyways, WW numbers have been consistent for a long time now. No surprises here.
It's the sense of entitlement, of not contributing any sales to a franchise's success -a paltry half mil' for Substance- and not even having a new Metal Gear game for almost 10 YEARS yet having the gall to say "thanks to XBox360".
Yeah Gears3 sold 4 mil' as the author chimes, but it's also a 360 exclusive since day 1. MGS has as I said, been absent on XBox for almost 10 years. There's no guarantee MGS will sell $&*# on the 360. FF13 stil...
Article screwed up. You get a gold, yes a gold for beating each lvl on hard in Terminator Salvation, not a silver. Game doesn't even have any silvers or bronzes. Clearly the author hasn't platinumed it or he'd remember it quite fondly, heh.
FFS people, stop bringing up XBL and the controller in a thread about graphics! It's totally off topic and reeks of butthurt. Nobody cares what brand of AA batteries you use.
@Proeliator
Ummm...quotes on the site from the founder Grant Smythe himself:
"This IS an Xbox site but we play all types of game!"
"OXCGN is now home for 11 individuals who do prefer the Xbox 360 as their ‘primary’ platform of choice"
"we all have an X360, and we do do many of our reviews based on that platform"
FFS, everybody has their XBL AVATARS' pictures next to their admin bios...