I just never thought I'd see so many people get angry about a game getting a 10 for the first time in over 6 years.

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If you weren't already the mod in charge of it, I would report that comment for "Intending solely to annoy and/or offend other users," as that was nothing but a directed comment intending to annoy or offend me.

I didn't say I was angry about it, I said I don't believe it. I didn't say you said it, I said it was a lame excuse for gamespot to say.

[/QUOTE]I'm not trying to annoy you, I'm simply telling it like it is... read my previous comments in this thread. The last comment wasn't directed at you either, but rather everyone who complained.

Besides, I was wrong. It wasn't a red herring, but in the chat last night, Lark was making a joke about the mess-up earlier: [URL]http://www.gamespot.com/pages/forums/show_msgs.php?topic_id=26367274[/URL]

That's the real story. I've seen it before, where the score goes up, comes down, then comes back later. Heck, Knights of the Old Republic had a 0.0 before the real review went up and it was fixed. In other words, never believe the score until there's a review to go with it. That's the real answer, or "excuse" as so many people will put it, since they're convinced of a bias that doesn't exist.

If you weren't already the mod in charge of it, I would report that comment for "Intending solely to annoy and/or offend other users," as that was nothing but a directed comment intending to annoy or offend me.

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Mod in charge of what? You're gonna report him for trolling? That is priceless :lol:

Mailer_Daemon, what your opinion on the GTAIV review... did you play the game yet, what do you think of the game itself?

Also what you think how will MGSIV will turn out?

[/QUOTE]Having not played the game yet, all I can say is that I'm genuinely shocked that GS has rated a game a 10 for the first time in 6 and a half years. :shock: I'll probably pick it up in the next few weeks, when I've got the money to do so.

As for MGS4, I don't bother to speculate over review scores, because I care more about how the game actually turns out. If I based everything on review scores, I wouldn't have bothered with the .hack series or the newest Fire Emblem game. In any case, I'm hoping MGS4 is as good as it's supposed to be, as these delays have been rather annoying. I'm glad they didn't release it until the DualShock 3 was the standard, though. My dislike of the SIXAXIS is well-documented. ;)

That said, I do care about review scores for one reason: the anger/hatred/frustration that people get from them make my e-life as a moderator much more difficult. :(

[QUOTE="MAILER_DAEMON"]I don't even know what I'm in charge of... if people think I'm "the" mod "in charge" of the PS3 board, then they have no idea how the moderation system works here.
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In other words, If I were to fill out a mod thing, you would be the one who could mod someone for it....and you or any other mods are obviously not gonna repremand each other...so there would be no point.
But anyways, since this is off topic, back to the topic!

Mailer-Daemon

You seem like you try to bring up some good points, but you fail to deliver the message truthfully. I suppose its wither the way you are or your just holding back the way you really feel because your obsessed with Gamespot.

[/QUOTE]I'm not really sure why you think I'm "holding back the way [I] feel." If I were obsessed with Gamespot, I wouldn't have a life outside of here. You're choosing not to believe me because you think I'm being untruthful, and that's not the case. If I didn't have my mod tags (which I didn't for two weeks while I worked on a 30-page graduate-level paper this month), would I be more trustworthy? You have the right to your opinion, and if you want to write that review, go ahead and write the review... I'm not gonna stop you, although reviews should be posted in reviews, not in threads.

What I'm taking from this is that you think that I'm simply trying to defend Gamespot out of some sense of loyalty, and if that were the case, I wouldn't have been so vocal about the Jeff mess. Don't try to make me something that I'm not.

For what it's worth, I don't think I'll ever get over THPS3 getting a 10 or MGS2 getting as high of a rating as it did. I thought Jeff was blinded by the fact that Tony Hawk was online, and MGS2 was given a pass because there hadn't been a story as crazy up to that time.

You seem like you try to bring up some good points, but you fail to deliver the message truthfully. I suppose its wither the way you are or your just holding back the way you really feel because your obsessed with Gamespot.

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How do you want him to rate it based on not even playing it?

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I want him to condemn Gamespot for giving another biased crap review, but I guess I am asking to much. :P