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Hesmyrr
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Canada5776 Posts
August 04 2010 06:09 GMT
#41
Ka boom. 1/5. Oh nooooes it's a low score -_-
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Sabu113
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States11108 Posts
August 04 2010 07:44 GMT
#42
Ign hates starcraft. You can tell if you read the majority of their articles. Still it's interesting to see what they liked and disliked and compare it to TL threads.
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DoctorHelvetica
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
United States15034 Posts
August 04 2010 09:38 GMT
#43
The whole idea of rating a game numerically seems stupid to me anyway. The only thing dumber than that is actually caring what irrelevant overpaid game reviewers assign to games in the first place.

That's one of the reasons I like reviewers like Yahtzee although he's a bit too negative.
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Kim_Hyun_Han
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
706 Posts
August 04 2010 10:10 GMT
#44
maybe they compared star2 to brood war

so they couldnt give it a 10/10

but hey friend

you cant spell IGNORANCE without spelling IGN
Snowbear
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Korea (South)1925 Posts
August 04 2010 10:15 GMT
#45
COD 1 was awesome, COD 2 was easier but still awesome and COD4 mw1 en 2 are just shit and too easy to play.

On www.xfire.com you can see that people still play more mw1 then mw2. You can even see that people play more sc2 then mw2 and on some days even more then mw1. I know, not everyone has xfire on when they play mw1 or 2, but you can say the same about sc2 players.
Goshawk.
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
United Kingdom5338 Posts
August 04 2010 10:38 GMT
#46
On August 04 2010 14:24 Alou wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 04 2010 09:46 supernova wrote:
Really, there is no reason this game shouldn't be a perfect 10 out of 10. The campaign, from what I've heard because I don't have enough damn money to actually buy the game, is awesome. The multiplayer has bugs but its what makes StarCraft, StarCraft and the visuals are stunning if you don't have a low graphics card. You see what I did? I just wrote a better review then IGN did in about 3 sentences. This game deserves a better rating then some others right now (including Joe Danger whatever the hell it is) and it's another prime example of why IGN has let me down.


You haven't bought the game, yet your opinion is supposed to be more informed than IGN's? That's ridiculous. You admit the game has faults, but you still give it a perfect score?

I love SC2 and will continue to play it because it's great, but crying about a 9 when that is a perfectly reasonable score for the game is ridiculous. Your entire post is laughable.


I was gonna point this out, but Alou did it for me.

On August 04 2010 19:15 Dente wrote:
COD 1 was awesome, COD 2 was easier but still awesome and COD4 mw1 en 2 are just shit and too easy to play.

On www.xfire.com you can see that people still play more mw1 then mw2. You can even see that people play more sc2 then mw2 and on some days even more then mw1. I know, not everyone has xfire on when they play mw1 or 2, but you can say the same about sc2 players.


Using Xfire to compare amount of players is horrible, not only does it not tell you how many people are playing the game it just tells you how much the people with Xfire play the game. Most people playing MW2 use Steam and probably don't bother with Xfire.

Xyik
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
Canada728 Posts
August 04 2010 15:04 GMT
#47
Okay, I don't understand people like you. You realize 10/10 means the game is near perfect right? It's so good that theres very few things you could even suggest to make it even better? (without revamping large aspects of the game of course).

I for one, feel cheated. They showed us all the cinematics in trailers / teasers already. The campaign missions while lots of fun, could have had more depth. I feel cheated that I played 95% of the missions as terran. So while all in all single player was fun, it really could have been better. Compare Warcraft 3's cinematics after each race's campaign and tell me which was more impressive. The script could have been better. In-game unit sounds could have been better. By saying the game is 10/10 you're saying that these aren't issues.

Honsetly Starcraft 2 is a great game, I would rate is high, an 8 or 9 maybe, but 10? It's not that close to being perfect I'm afraid.
mOnion
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States5660 Posts
August 04 2010 15:09 GMT
#48
starcraft multiplayer 10/10

starcraft campaign 6 or 7/10

IGN isn't TL, they have to take the whole thing into consideration. I'm surprised they rated it that high in the first place.
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Diamond
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
United States10796 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-08-04 15:55:38
August 04 2010 15:27 GMT
#49
IGN is also the people that said that the Terran Thor is unstoppable and they did not see a reason for any Terran player to EVER build any unit besides it....
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anon195
Profile Joined August 2010
15 Posts
August 04 2010 20:00 GMT
#50
CALL OF DUTY AND ALL FIRST PERSON SHOOTERS besides Halo S-U-C-K

no. halo is worse
quake is what fps is about
shawster
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Canada2485 Posts
August 04 2010 20:16 GMT
#51
On August 05 2010 00:27 iCCup.Diamond wrote:
IGN is also the people that said that the Terran Thor is unstoppable and they did not see a reason for any Terran player to EVER build any unit besides it....

LOL

yeah take gaming sites with a grain of salt. they don't know what they're talking about, they make up detailed and long replies about how the game has a great story which noone gives a shit about.

i remember gamespot fired a guy because he didn't like a game which was advertised on the site. really shows how low video game reviewers can go.
QuanticHawk
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
United States32158 Posts
August 04 2010 20:17 GMT
#52
How could you have never played the retail and have an opinon like this

I don't get it.


also, this game isn't original or ground breaking. It's also bugged. Bugged implying that it is not perfect.
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exeexe
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
Denmark937 Posts
August 04 2010 20:17 GMT
#53
I think they gave it 9 which albeit isnt 10 is still a really good score because they mistakenly had a copy of sc bw, then ofcourse because its IGN and IGN dont have the capacity to fully understand SCBW they gave it 9 instead of a 10. If they really had their hands on sc2 they obiously would had given the game a rating of say 4-5.
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polgas
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Canada1791 Posts
August 04 2010 20:58 GMT
#54
First of all, you haven't played it yet. It's like going to imdb and giving Transformers Revenge of the Fallen a 10 just because you were a fan of the cartoons. Secondly, it's a trilogy. We're still in "The Fellowship of the Ring". Did it sweep the Oscars? No, it won 4. Guess how many the third one got. Third, it's a different genre of game from COD. RTS is not FPS. Toy Story 3 is not Inception. If you want to compare scores, see Broodwar vs Starcraft 2. Lastly, it's somebody else's opinion. Who cares? I liked The Mummy. It didn't beat The Phantom Menace, but I don't care.
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lossofmercy
Profile Joined March 2010
United States29 Posts
August 04 2010 21:16 GMT
#55
IGN sucks anyway. "I don't really know how to play this game, but general opinion seems to say that it is good, who am I to disagree? 10/10"

Why would you read their opinion about games needing any nuance/complexity whatsoever? Look at anything that needs decent level of understanding like Mushihime-sama, Ikaruga, Marvel vs. Capcom 2, Street Fighter 4, etc.

Aside from that, people care too much about near perfect. 9.8/10 Who cares, you aren't using a 100 point system to rate anything. Just say the game is fantastic (10/10, 5/5) but has a few hiccups, like any normal person would.
Wineandbread
Profile Joined September 2009
United States2065 Posts
August 04 2010 22:56 GMT
#56
Do I hear some fanboyism spewing from this blog

We all have different tastes in games. In terms of multiplayer, MW2 excels at drawing in casual and moderate players, and everybody loves controversial storyline campaigns right (hurrr I'm gonna shoot all these civilians down in an airport) I'm only partially speaking from experience because I go play it every time people are over at my house (it's not my game)

I like Starcraft 2 a lot. But a 10/10 would be unwarranted... there's a good number of flaws I can point out (albeit minor) and the multiplayer could use a couple features (hello LAN and chat channels). I think a 9/10 is a highly respectable score and deserved for the game.
Morayfire73
Profile Joined April 2010
United States298 Posts
August 05 2010 01:04 GMT
#57
On August 05 2010 07:56 Wineandbread wrote:
Do I hear some fanboyism spewing from this blog

We all have different tastes in games. In terms of multiplayer, MW2 excels at drawing in casual and moderate players, and everybody loves controversial storyline campaigns right (hurrr I'm gonna shoot all these civilians down in an airport) I'm only partially speaking from experience because I go play it every time people are over at my house (it's not my game)

I like Starcraft 2 a lot. But a 10/10 would be unwarranted... there's a good number of flaws I can point out (albeit minor) and the multiplayer could use a couple features (hello LAN and chat channels). I think a 9/10 is a highly respectable score and deserved for the game.


Well you are on a Starcraft fan site, it would be expected that there would be a starcraft favoritism. Honestly, no game should be a 10/10. SC2 is the BEST RTS that has ever been released, at least in terms of the single player campaign. The only game that it even on the same level as it in the multi-player sector is the original Starcraft. For a game that is pretty much the best in its genre, a 9/10 is kinda bad.
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Salv
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
Canada3083 Posts
August 05 2010 01:11 GMT
#58
Deserves a 9 out of 10 for it's lack of features that the original BW had. No chat channels, no cross realm play, no LAN; that's a problem for a lot of people.
Djzapz
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Canada10681 Posts
August 05 2010 01:17 GMT
#59
LOL @ SC2 getting a lower score than the piece of trash that is MW2... It's really a shame. But what does IGN know, honestly.
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dogabutila
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States1438 Posts
August 05 2010 01:38 GMT
#60
On August 04 2010 09:53 Craton wrote:
There are several reasons it shouldn't be a 10, not the least of which are the lack of multiplayer features (which will undoubtedly be argued here in great length). There's also the issue of their archaic ranking system and placement system, the underdeveloped map-developer section, and the region-locking.



Thats less about the game and more about bnet2.0 though.
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