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beelzebozo
Jealous Bastard
i'm here to give egm love.
i think it's a great magazine, and the review scores are generally spot-on.
they are yet to pull a game informer-esque paper mario 2 review atrocity that i can recall.
i think it's a great magazine, and the review scores are generally spot-on.
they are yet to pull a game informer-esque paper mario 2 review atrocity that i can recall.
beelzebozo
Jealous Bastard
Oblivion said:The hilarity is sure to ensue when EGM eventually reviews Lost Planet and 6.8's it.
"sliimmmmm pickins"
DemDereNads
Member
beelzebozo said:
Review scores are generally spot-on? Well, which of the three reviews per game would you be talking about, because those are rarely spot on to each other... :lol
Seems like a very hard statement to make when each reviewer gives a wildly different score.
Clever Pun
Member
vala said:
the best part about toasty's comments on his blog are the way he both anticipates, and responds to, comments like this.
beelzebozo
Jealous Bastard
DemDereNads said:
yeah, i can't comment on why they gave the game the scores they did (don't have the issue) or account for their personal tastes, but when the reviewers seem to come to some sort of general consensus (ex: 7.0, 7.5, 8.0 for dead rising, 9.0, 9.0, 9.5 for okami) that i tend to jibe with that consensus. i wouldn't be picking up a copy of deep labyrinth anyway, with some of those low scores.
but egm always gives me a good idea about the general quality of a title, and i give them credit for it.
On the plus side of all this, this thread nicely proves that no matter how mature some people fool themselves into thinking they are, they'll still whine like 3 year olds if people don't agree with their opinions on games. CAN YOU GUESS WHO?
BlueTsunami
there is joy in sucking dick
Dead Rising is obviously such a bad game that you should just, raise your nose to it or take a dump on Capcoms HQ's sidewalk. Lets form a mob.
BlueTsunami
there is joy in sucking dick
Mooreberg said:
Its a tradeoff i'm willing to take!
i went and read toastyfrog's blog entry. what a self-satisfied twit. damned if he hasn't bashed an excellent game out of sheer spite. i suppose this is what happens when you blur the lines between publications, blogs, and message boards -- your publications get petty. when a game journalist wants a hit of his own ego, he'll usually just remind us that he knows what a "sku" is, or that e3 is overcrowded. would that toastyfrog were a touch less original -- first time i've wished that of a game journalist, and alas that it should be under these circumstances. i hope tweaking the noses of several dozen "hardcore gamers" on the internet was worth it, guy. you'll be wrong forever, but man wait til thenextlevel.com gets a hold of this. it'd be churlish of me not to freak out on cue.
anyway, i spoke prematurely about gm's difficulty -- it kicks in at level 4. when was the last time you saw a hard jump? a jump you had to think about, attempt, fail, rethink, and finally make however many cycles later? there's such a jump halfway through level 4. what a game.
anyway, i spoke prematurely about gm's difficulty -- it kicks in at level 4. when was the last time you saw a hard jump? a jump you had to think about, attempt, fail, rethink, and finally make however many cycles later? there's such a jump halfway through level 4. what a game.
A Link to the Past
Banned
If only developers made more Kingdom Hearts, Halo and Final Fantasy games, EGM would be less negative and rate them higher!
Holy sh....
Who does these reviews? Trained monkeys? Blind trained monkeys?
Tekken DR is a HUGE leap for handheld fighting, nothing has EVER come close before. Plus it's a superb game on its own merits. Not that 8.0 is bad, but Tekken DR is more than that IMO.
And the UG&G scores are an embarrassing travesty. A totally unwarranted insult to an undeserving Capcom, and a badge of dishonor for the jackasses at EGM who put their names to those miserable scores. A 4.5? EGM itself is a damned 4.5 of a magazine.
At some point these reviewers should be reviewed. Because they literally can cause a game to fail, and UG&G doesn't deserve to fail.
Thank God I stopped subscribing and/or buying EGM long ago, back when Gamefan came along. I miss Gamefan - I'm sure they would've scored UG&G quite high if they still existed.
cartman414
Member
C- Warrior said:
5 is average, not 7.5.
BTW, is your avatar Vash the Stampede?
UncleGuito
Banned
Probably Shane.Namomura said:
What a moron, he can never back up his scores and he writes like shit.
DemDereNads
Member
sp0rsk said:
Doh, you have my number! I'm one of those stupid... Xbox360 - PS2 - DS - PSP fanboys!! Or... I just pointed out all the scattered scores regardless of what system it was on, which you included in your quote.
UncleGuito
Banned
Oh, this just in:
EGM's score of Loco Roco: 5.5/9.0/8.5
EGM's score of Loco Roco: 5.5/9.0/8.5
cartman414
Member
UncleGuito said:
For reals? I'm suspecting you're messing, but sarcasm is hard to detect on the net.
UncleGuito
Banned
cartman414 said:
gutter_trash
Banned
threeball said:
hein??? what's with the 4.5 on UGG??
and WTF is wtih those 8s on Tekken DR? the game is actually more complete then the PS2 version of T5
drohne said:
Something I've definitely noticed with him recently, and it's definitely getting on my last nerve. He did the same thing with his 8.0 for New Super Mario Bros, which isn't even a bad score - he writes a blog countering the complaints, before the review is even public. It's like he does it, just so he can explain that it just didn't meet his gloriously high expectations, and since he just expects more out of developers, he really isn't wrong. Definitely upsets me. I had a feeling when I saw the scores that he gave it the 4. Or one of the girls did.
LiveFromKyoto
Member
I thought we was cool EGM, what happened?
Just for that, I'm gonna buy UG&G and not this issue!
From the blog:
Sounds a little unprofessional to me.
On one hand, I realise that a review is completely subjective, so it's harsh to criticise toastyfrog for having his opinion and rating the game accordingly. But he shows no such respect towards the opinion of another.
Aaaaaaanyway - his review is more of an interesting outlier by the looks of it so far. It must be hard to make an impact when you only have four sentences for a review though, so in my opinion that's why I prefer to read a well considered review, score be damned.
Sounds a little unprofessional to me.
On one hand, I realise that a review is completely subjective, so it's harsh to criticise toastyfrog for having his opinion and rating the game accordingly. But he shows no such respect towards the opinion of another.
Aaaaaaanyway - his review is more of an interesting outlier by the looks of it so far. It must be hard to make an impact when you only have four sentences for a review though, so in my opinion that's why I prefer to read a well considered review, score be damned.
It is kind of amusing that people get so defensive regarding reviews of games they have not played yet. So some people say it is a good game, and then a magazine says it is not. These are just people's opinions, and people have vastly different tastes. Try it for yourself, and if you disagree, fine, but there is no sense in saying OMGGGGG (MAGAZINE) SUCKS COZ THEY RATED A GAME IM LOOKING 4WARD 2 LOW (what's "low" at now? 7? 8?)
The bottom line is: the amount of hype surrounding a game does not equate to quality AND people have different tastes. This shows very well in the review scores for Deep Labyrinth. Having already beaten the game, and LOVING it, I am still not disappointed with EGM's scores, because I understand that people who do not like first-person dungeon crawlers will not enjoy the game. But you don't see me defaming an entire magazine just because I disagree.
The bottom line is: the amount of hype surrounding a game does not equate to quality AND people have different tastes. This shows very well in the review scores for Deep Labyrinth. Having already beaten the game, and LOVING it, I am still not disappointed with EGM's scores, because I understand that people who do not like first-person dungeon crawlers will not enjoy the game. But you don't see me defaming an entire magazine just because I disagree.
from toastyfrog aka mr parish
i mean i dont want to sound like an ass but doesnt this contradict your whole "im right youre wrong" stance on UGNG?
How can you respect the opinions of other people who totally pan a game you seemed to like and not for GNG? Some of us DO like games that are retardedly hard and require super reflexes, mind you its not an established genre like the dungeon hack but hey, theres some really ****ing good platforming moments in this game. Level design is also really ****ing ace.
gaf isnt a person or a unified entity.
i mean i dont want to sound like an ass but doesnt this contradict your whole "im right youre wrong" stance on UGNG?
How can you respect the opinions of other people who totally pan a game you seemed to like and not for GNG? Some of us DO like games that are retardedly hard and require super reflexes, mind you its not an established genre like the dungeon hack but hey, theres some really ****ing good platforming moments in this game. Level design is also really ****ing ace.
gaf isnt a person or a unified entity.