[QUOTE="SloganYams"][QUOTE="GamerofMario1"][QUOTE="SloganYams"]If this game is similar to Inside Story, I refuse to see how it's got 7s and 8s instead of 9s and 10s.
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Oh right, it's not dark, brooding and M-rated.
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Probably because it isn't as hyped as the previous game was, plus Nintendo is in the post-Wii age in which everything they make sucks.
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Hype does make the scores these days. I mean, how else could a game as bland, uninspired and self-aggrandizing as Bioshock Infinite get such undeserved praise?
Well more and more reviews are taken with a grain of salt especially when you look at how past games got insanely high scores despite not being as groundbreaking as the hype made them out to be. One of the best examples is Grand Theft Auto IV which was a perfectly solid entry in the series but many, even GTA fans didn't quite see it being this perfect 10 all the game sites were making it out to be. Many were unhappy the fun wackiness was gone in favor of grim and gritty realism (at least Saint's Row salvaged that) and being constantly nagged by your cousin and spending a lot of time playing "Grand Theft Normal Boring Life."
And with incidents like the Gamespot incident with Kane and Lynch and Jeff Gertsman being fired for not giving it a higher score and rumors of Two Souls II's publishers paying off sites and other tales of reviewers being put in nice hotel rooms to review games to "encourage" higher scores. I mean GS here gave Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon a 6.5 and it was one of the best 3DS games I played to date and this is coming from someone who thought the first one was pretty average.
And I could name a number of games I liked that got mediocre reviews. I mean I'm a Sonic fan after all.
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Honestly, it seems as soon as the trailers for games are released, all these sites have their "10s" in mind from the get-go. And well, they all seem to have a bias against Nintendo (save for Edge and Eurogamer, who are mostly fair, though sadly even they seem to hand out perfect scores too frequently these days. This is especially sad for Edge, where getting a 10 from them used to be a huge deal).
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I mean, seriously, read the review of Dark Moon, then look at the score. It doesn't add up. It just feels like GS saw the scores it was getting from other sites, and wanted to stand out and get attention, so they lowered the score. Now, I know, like they said, a 6.5 isn't exactly a bad score (I'm one who has always said people need to actually use ther entire scales, instead of the IGN style 7-10 scoring system), but if one looks at how GS usually rates a 6.5, it says the exact opposite. It almost just feels like since it's a Nintendo game, Â it gets a lower score.
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I hear people are also raging over the 8.0 score for The Last of Us, but I'm actually finding myself agree more and more with that the more I play the game. It's a very good game, but one with some seriously notable flaws: the game could have some good head-scratching puzzle elements to it, but they're ruined because the game always shows you exactly what you need to do/use to move on (it's like it wants to be paced like a movie instead of a game, so it ignores the potential puzzle aspects in favor of a more movie-like flow... but since this is a video game it kind of cheapens it). Then there's too many "surprise" deaths. I know you're suppose to stealth, but even then you still seem to walk into an ambush left and right. And then theirs managing the inventory, which is more of a hassle than it needs to be.
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Personally speaking, I'm in the minority who likes Last oof Us' multiplayer mode more than the story campaign. If I had to say right now, I'd give the story mode an 8.0, the multiplayer a 9.0, and the overall game an 8.5. And that should be considered a terrific score. Instead, it seems like anything under a 9.5 is considered disappointing for a hyped game like The Last of Us. Meanwhile, when Nintendo games get lower scores than that people claim it as "fair" and "honest." But when Nintendo games score higher than bloated, overhyped western games the editors are just fanboys.Â
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I actually see GS' review of The Last of Us to be a rare example of a video game website not buying into hype and judging a game fairly. If only people could have been honest with the dreadful bore that is Bioshock Infinite. That game flat-out sucked.
I think his time has come again and he could bring his cronies Mouser, Clawgrip, Tryclyde and Fryguy.
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