EPTIGN reviews are mediocre, mostly gushing praise for established franchises on consoles, they do have very nice game guides though, helped me through DX:HR quite a lot.
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Mobius_1
United Kingdom2763 Posts
IGN reviews are mediocre, mostly gushing praise for established franchises on consoles, they do have very nice game guides though, helped me through DX:HR quite a lot. | ||
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ToDieFoR
United States52 Posts
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Glurkenspurk
United States1915 Posts
On November 08 2011 18:43 ToDieFoR wrote: I'm amazed that no one have talked about BlisteredThumbs. They might not be the most professional reviewers out there, but they're gamers... and they complain... hell yeah, they do. Angryjoeshow <- People that still do the "Look at me swear and scream at games" are just riding on the game of the avgn. Reviews like that are always just nitpicking. | ||
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StarStruck
25339 Posts
The writers have been out of sync with the community as the gamer developers. Practically everyone can label themselves gamers nowadays. Only difference with these people is that they are journalists as well. | ||
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Gheed
United States972 Posts
This is probably not the best solution, either. | ||
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MulletMurdoc
South Africa46 Posts
not to mention they do more for e-sports than any of you do. Take a deep breath and try to think of something constructive. Flinging shit at everyone seldom helps a cause | ||
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prplhz
Denmark8045 Posts
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Geovu
Estonia1344 Posts
On November 08 2011 22:35 prplhz wrote: yea i never read game reviews either, all sites suck. no exceptions. Youtube, for game trailers. I don't know about anyone else here but I have never had much of a problem being able to figure out whether or not I'll like a game based on a ~2 minute gameplay trailer and a short paragraph with a description of the game. Except Fable III, that game was trash. I even tried to like it. Might be because virtually every game is a sequel though and/or fits firmly into a genre I have experience in. E.G. Gears of War 3, CoD, all those other 'modern' FPS games, Starcraft 2, etc.etc. If it's an Xbox game there's usually a free demo you can try it out on as well. I played Mirror's Edge's demo like 5 times before buying it lol, and I tried to give Dante's Inferno a chance as well but it was so awful omg. | ||
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Probe1
United States17920 Posts
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T0fuuu
Australia2275 Posts
Anyways they give out too many 9+ reviews these days.. what happened to when HL2 the most influential shooter of a generation couldnt get over a 9.7 they would prolly give that to a fucking halo sequel these days. | ||
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Djzapz
Canada10681 Posts
Maybe they should stop hiring soccer moms. | ||
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Ideas
United States8036 Posts
On November 08 2011 22:26 MulletMurdoc wrote: I doubt any of you could do any better, and if you did attempt to there would be a huge wave of people bitching and moaning about your reviews to. The internet is a big place and mostly filled with critics (I blame anonymity) not to mention they do more for e-sports than any of you do. Take a deep breath and try to think of something constructive. Flinging shit at everyone seldom helps a cause so much wrong with this post goddamnit 1) I don't make money writing reviews, so it doesnt matter if I could do better. nor do I claim to have a reasonable opinion on games that other people should know of before making game purchases (whereas these guys do). 2) fuck esports | ||
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jeeeeohn
United States1343 Posts
If you want good gaming journalism, read PC Gamer (there's a minority that claims bias, but I don't see it), or read The Escapist. IGN is pretty blah unless you need hard and fast raw info, like release dates and stuff like that. | ||
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xTivo
29 Posts
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Xiron
Germany1233 Posts
On November 08 2011 16:01 Holcan wrote: No one hated them for facebook integration, everyone hated the fact that they prioritized facebook integration over chat rooms. Facebook integration was overall a plus, however ignoring other vital things such as public chat rooms was a much larger negative. No I really hate them for a facebook integration. | ||
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MrDudeMan
Canada973 Posts
On November 08 2011 22:26 MulletMurdoc wrote: I doubt any of you could do any better, and if you did attempt to there would be a huge wave of people bitching and moaning about your reviews to. The internet is a big place and mostly filled with critics (I blame anonymity) not to mention they do more for e-sports than any of you do. Take a deep breath and try to think of something constructive. Flinging shit at everyone seldom helps a cause I think the problem is that people who consider themselves "professional reviewers" really shouldn't. I'm not specifically talking about any one website, but just in general there is such a huge saturation of journalists that a lot of reviews/articles are shitty. I don't agree with a lot of the reviews that happen on IGN or any of the other huge websites (Destructoid, Gametrailers, Gamespot, etc.), but I do think better of IGN because of IPL. Its kind of odd really, how games generally have inflated scores, while movies are criticized very harshly in some circumstances. | ||
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John Madden
American Samoa894 Posts
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LoLAdriankat
United States4307 Posts
The majority of the bigger sites take bribes from the publishers/developers to give their games a good score. That's why the rating scale is so fucked up these days, and you could tell they're taking bribe money just by reading the actual review (because who the fuck actually thinks Modern Warfare 3 is revolutionary, whether it's good or not). | ||
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KtheZ
United States813 Posts
On November 11 2011 07:35 LoLAdriankat wrote: Giantbomb and Rock Paper Shotgun are my only sources for reviews. The majority of the bigger sites take bribes from the publishers/developers to give their games a good score. That's why the rating scale is so fucked up these days, and you could tell they're taking bribe money just by reading the actual review (because who the fuck actually thinks Modern Warfare 3 is revolutionary, whether it's good or not). I think this link illustrates your point very clearly. http://www.metacritic.com/game/xbox-360/call-of-duty-modern-warfare-3?recent-sort=metascore | ||
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Count9
China10928 Posts
I feel it's just part of the sequel phenomenon, mags/sites know that if they give CoD 10 a bad review there's a chance they'll be shut out of CoD 11,12,13, and 14 beta/first playthroughs and won't have exclusive interviews and as much content so they'd rather not risk it. | ||
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