conzer16 Posted November 18, 2006 Posted November 18, 2006 I really dont care what review scores games get, as I said, I'll make up my own mind. But to put it into perspective, IGN gave Zelda a 9.5, even though if you average the 5 marks they gave in the categories Presentation, Graphics, Sound, Gameplay and Lasting Appeal it only got an 8.7. (they do say however they dont average their scores, but hey hummm)
Nintendork Posted November 18, 2006 Posted November 18, 2006 GameSpot's Wikipedia page has been under attack for the last hour. It's been locked.
Serebii Posted November 18, 2006 Posted November 18, 2006 Why average some stuff into the main score when its not that important. Graphics for example or Sound, I know a good amount of people who rarely play games utilising their soundtrack so thats much less important than say Gameplay Besides, the reviewer blatently has had too many pies...typical Microsoft fanboy :p
conzer16 Posted November 18, 2006 Posted November 18, 2006 GameSpot sucks a dong. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamespot lol!
Samdecahedron Posted November 18, 2006 Posted November 18, 2006 I've obviously not played Zelda, but i think it deserves higher. I can tell by the movies and reveiws it's a classic. They may average the scores, but it seems silly when Graphics and sound count towards the big score so much. I still can't wait, and it hasn't affected my intrest in the game whatsoever.
blender Posted November 18, 2006 Posted November 18, 2006 I've obviously not played Zelda, but i think it deserves higher. I can tell by the movies and reveiws it's a classic. :horse: :horse: :horse: They may average the scores, but it seems silly when Graphics and sound count towards the big score so much. I still can't wait, and it hasn't affected my intrest in the game whatsoever. The final score is never an average
Flunx Posted November 18, 2006 Posted November 18, 2006 I read the review last night when I got home from the local pub. As I skimmed down to the final score and it said 8.8, I laughed and thought it was a joke. Obviously it wasn't. I buy my games based mainly on reviews (which I assume most of you do). This proves that gamespot is the last place you'd want to base your game purchases from. The gamespot review is the ONLY one that hasn't given Twilight Princess a close to perfect if not perfect score. Yes, I care about reviews and gamerankings.com and I think everybody with some love for games should, yo yo.
Nintendork Posted November 18, 2006 Posted November 18, 2006 Yes, I care about reviews and gamerankings.com and I think everybody with some love for games should, yo yo. Conversely GameRankings has nothing to do with IGN's top 100 games ever (which is not without flaws) but was entirely rated by IGN users. Twilight Princess will no doubt score better because of the army of Zelda fans who enjoyed it and want to see GameSpot proved wrong.
Mr. Bananagrabber Posted November 18, 2006 Posted November 18, 2006 I've obviously not played Zelda, but i think it deserves higher. No offence, but that made me lol a lot.
Shorty Posted November 18, 2006 Posted November 18, 2006 It's not really a bad score but I'm still believing that they did it to get a lot of website traffic.
martinist Posted November 18, 2006 Posted November 18, 2006 its just a stupid score, i'm still going to buy the game and its probebly going to be the best damn thing i've ever played
Gaijin von Snikbah Posted November 18, 2006 Posted November 18, 2006 Well, you cant really put a person who doesnt like games to review them either. The reviewer is suppsed to reflect the opinion of gamers, not that of senior citizens who had porridge for breakfast.
Zechs Merquise Posted November 18, 2006 Posted November 18, 2006 It's not really a bad score but I'm still believing that they did it to get a lot of website traffic. Too right, this isn't the first time a games website or mag has done some thing like this for attention.
Serebii Posted November 18, 2006 Posted November 18, 2006 I just hate how when sites do this, some people go "Wow, bout time someone says the truth" When 20 people are saying the games awesome and one is saying it has a fair few flaws...what is more likely true
Nintenchris Posted November 18, 2006 Posted November 18, 2006 I just hate how when sites do this, some people go "Wow, bout time someone says the truth" When 20 people are saying the games awesome and one is saying it has a fair few flaws...what is more likely true I said this a few days ago... "Uh oh... it seems Gamespot will be the first to try and draw tonnes of hits by giving it a lower score than everyone else!" Here http://www.n-europe.com/forum/showthread.php?p=280022#post280022 And i was right!
Nintendork Posted November 18, 2006 Posted November 18, 2006 Too right, this isn't the first time a games website or mag has done some thing like this for attention. I actually think ONM did that Wii stand power brick in their first/second issue to get attention.
Domstercool Posted November 18, 2006 Posted November 18, 2006 Too right, this isn't the first time a games website or mag has done some thing like this for attention. Has everyone forgot the 9/10 Driver 3... Opps sorry Driv3r review from that Xbox mag? I think that is a lot worse than this :P
blender Posted November 18, 2006 Posted November 18, 2006 Has everyone forgot the 9/10 Driver 3... Opps sorry Driv3r review from that Xbox mag? and more recently the farcicle 9/10 for red steel in ngamer.
mcj metroid Posted November 18, 2006 Posted November 18, 2006 what about pokemon channel getting 8.0 on cube mag at it's time:d
Tellyn Posted November 18, 2006 Posted November 18, 2006 This reminds me of the incident of November 200....6 when Joystiq decided they'd knock the game for the labour of having to press the A button to read a sign. "WTF is wrong with Miyamoto? Pressing a button? To hell with that! Deduct review points..." Has that guy ever played a videogame in his life? Every goddamn video game in existence requires you to press a button at some point you dimwit.
Gaijin von Snikbah Posted November 18, 2006 Posted November 18, 2006 I suppose they loaded Windows Defender before posting that score.
Zechs Merquise Posted November 18, 2006 Posted November 18, 2006 Zelda:TP reviewer on the far left. Lol, as ever Dante flys in with the knowledge that counts, in this case photographic proof that 'Jeff' is a retard!
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