Gamespot contradictions. The Luigi Mansion review.

I never understood why outliers are always demonized. Isn't it important to get a wide range of perspectives? If Carolyn found the game frustrating to play, then it's likely that there will be other people who feel the same way. Reviews are supposed to be subjective, and it will be inevitable that for most games there will be people who love it and those who hate it. It's important to probably understand their points of view to get a better composite picture of the quality of the game.

gta4 needed checkpoints so bad it wasnt even funny, fail a mission, hey lets spend 10 minutes driving across the city just to retry the mission again!

deathmasterk

So, compared to the new Castlevania game, Luigi's Mansion is even worse? Oh god, time to sell my 3DS again...every game i waited for over a year, very patiently i might add, has flopped in the extreme. Now, what else do i have to look forword to this year for 3DS?

So, compared to the new Castlevania game, Luigi's Mansion is even worse? Oh god, time to sell my 3DS again...every game i waited for over a year, very patiently i might add, has flopped in the extreme. Now, what else do i have to look forword to this year for 3DS?

Videodogg

:lol: Rich is what that is. 

So a 6.5 for lack of checkpoints and spikes in difficulty? Hmmm..... didnt GTA IV score a perfect 10? yeah.....

deathmasterk

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So it's a 6.5 because of no check points? Although it maybe because of the controls.

locopatho

I disagree with this on many levels. Sure, that was the case with some games... Games today are way to easy. Kids with their make believe ADD can not sit still long enough to actually beat a genuinely hard segment of a game without check points and save spheres every 5 feet. Some games back in "the 80's" were crap in the fact that they were almost impossible... it would not have mattered if there were save points or not if you could not get to them... lol. However, that was not the case in the majority of the ones that were decent. Also, most of the side scrolling shooters or games that could be beaten within 1 hour were limited to lack of AI making a lot of segments memorization more than being just plain too hard. I can think of a bunch of games that were every bit as long as games we have around today.

I never understood why outliers are always demonized. Isn't it important to get a wide range of perspectives? If Carolyn found the game frustrating to play, then it's likely that there will be other people who feel the same way. Reviews are supposed to be subjective, and it will be inevitable that for most games there will be people who love it and those who hate it. It's important to probably understand their points of view to get a better composite picture of the quality of the game.

nintendoman562

The number system needs to go.. No one knows or gives a fvck the difference between a 8.5 and 9.0.. There is no basis between the two which would give it one or the other.. We need a system like a 5 star system.. 1 being poor, 2 being average, 3 being good, 4 being great, and 5 being amazing.. There is no "perfect" score, there is no seven shades of crap (most are not going to buy a game that scored across the board 7's and lower, inless it has been heavily patched or changed) and there is no meaningless differences between .5's.. Or even less.sSubZerOo

I agree, but I'd actually strip it down to just using the words - poor, average, good, etc.

Whoa whoa whoa....they gave it a 6.5??!!?!

Gamespot. What a bunch of idiots.

I mean how else would they get noticed if they didn't post the one high profile contradicting score? At least they know who they really are: More concerned with shock value for the sake of notariaty than in reviewing integrity. Can't wait to pick up my 9.3 reviewing Luigi's Mansion 2 tomorrow.

Whatever, it just one damn review, or more like one score. Also it seems quite a few people still don't get that GS doesn't go from 10 and reduce it from there.

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So a 6.5 for lack of checkpoints and spikes in difficulty? Hmmm..... didnt GTA IV score a perfect 10? yeah.....

Valknut4

GtaVI had those same problems, how is this hard to see? Not to even bring up the extreme **** that is the PC port. I mean come on... Bank mission anyone? Ya I loved doing that 10 times over an over starting from the start of the mission, /vomit.

I picked up the game at the nintendo world launch event today, been playing for a bit and I honestly don't see this difficulty she's talking about. She's on crack, or she just can't play video games properly. Game isn't hard AT ALL so far. Doubt it will be spiking. Game is amazing by the way. If you're on the fence about this game, dont be. Pick it up. Enjoy it. Love it. 

Don't care.  Still getting the game.

Isn't it a port of a 90s game? These Luigi and Mario fellas seem familiar. 6.5 is generous.SolidSnake35

How is a sequel a port?

it got a 6.5? LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

Chris_Williams

I thought it sounded reasonable. If a game is frustrating for stupid reasons then it should be judged for that. A sh*tty checkpoint system is certainly something to knock big points off of a game for. Lord knows I hate having to be forced to play through the same level multiple times.

So a 6.5 for lack of checkpoints and spikes in difficulty? Hmmm..... didnt GTA IV score a perfect 10? yeah.....

deathmasterk

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gta4 needed checkpoints so bad it wasnt even funny, fail a mission, hey lets spend 10 minutes driving across the city just to retry the mission again!

savagetwinkie

Leaving to pick this game up in a few minutes. Can't wait to hear that bro humming with the music again. :D