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#1  Edited By Geogyf
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Another Click-bait post i see.

Gamespot has produced stupid shows like Feedbackula who only fuel the trolling.

A great problem that i have seen with Gamespot are some reviews that have made no sense at all

Gamespot places too much emphasis on ease to play, presentation and small length games

and disregards gameplay, games where the pacing is not good and lengthy games.

Many reviews reflect that.

Also dont put reviewers who dont like action, fast paced games to review slow paced, strategic games or the opposite.

A person who likes "Unicorns & Rainbows 4" or "Civilization 8" wont review with the same diligence "Call of Duty 9" or "Doom 5". They are just different games anyway you put it.

example given: C. Petit reviewing "Gone Home", then reviewing "Batman:Arkham Origins", then "Resident Evil 6".

All extremely different games

Metacritic's average scores or each site's scores individually on Metacritic, are vastly different than Gamespot's scores.

When a game gets many 8/10 or 6/10 reviews and you give it 4/10 you lose a lot of your credibility. It implies that someone wasnt objective about the game.

Probably because someone likes puzzle games or whatnot.

Gamespot should have someone specialized in the specific genre to review games, ex shooting genre, he should review "Call of Duty 9".

Also Gamespot should be more transparent and abandon the click-bait strategy. This can only get you so far.

Thats my take anyway, I enjoy Gamespot so i decided to add my 2 cents here.

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Xbox One VS PS 4 Analysis Incoming(HEAVY STUFF PEOPLE!)

Its a legitimate question which Publisher (Microsft or Sony) can give more to the customers:

 

XBOX ONE CONCERNS

1) Region-lock (Removed by the community outcry)

2) Xbox One always online (Removed by the community outcry)

3) Kinnect only accepting 10 users (Removed by the community outcry)

4) Used games playability (Removed by the community outcry)

5) Indie games problems with Xbox Live (Removed by the community outcry)

6) Many countries wont receive Cloud functions when Xbox One is released, they will get it 4-6 months later (ex Poland plus many other EU countries etc)

controversy here -Poland will get it 4 months later, yet Witcher 3 will get released normally. Sorry Polish fellow Xbox One gamers, you will have to wait.

7) Many countries may never receive Cloud functions or they may get it too late.

Essentially making the Kinnect Almost dead weight.

8) Kinect Spy (not a major concern, but still, Microsoft has signed PRISM, plus legitimate concers existed from the Federal Data Protection Agency of Germany)

9) Many Gamers (especially those with PCs) wont care about XBox One secondary utilities

10) Xbox One will also be 100 $ (cause of Kinect) more expensive than its main antagonist

 PS 4 CONCERNS

1) Kinnect offers so much more (Skype, TV channel interactivity, post videos on streams like Twitch, etc). It really is a work of wonder and the Playstation Eye is a pale imitatio compared to the possibilities of Kinnect.

 

Bonus Question - They gamers want those Xbox One utilities? They come with a great deal of burden & cost. Will it all be worth it?

 

THE CHRONICLES OF THE CONSOLE WARS: THE START

As we see, PS 4 had a very strong advantage at E3, especially when Sony capitalized on the Microsoft errors with a very aggresive marketing policy.

Many people were disappointed and they bitched on Microsoft, which comes as a no surprise.

Thankfully, Microsoft made a 360 degree turn in ther policy, essentially wiping off concerns 1,2,3,4 and 5.

 

THE CHRONICLES OF THE CONSOLE WARS: CURRENT STATUS

Still PS 4 has a lead (not a major one though) in people's choices.

Furthermore, Sony tries to expand it more with the PS4 digital library accessible on any system (mainly your friends)

 

POSSIBLE OUTCOME

The indication we get is that Sony seems more willing to give more power to the consumer. They also seem more able than microsoft, as they have given us more from the start.

One other bonus, is that the PS 4 architecture is quite easily to understand, and it will result in faster games (That is what Sony is claiming)

It maybe is that the Xbox One success or failure is tied with the Kinnect utilities.

 

Whichever console wins, a strong adversary is needed to keep the other on its toes.

Ultimately, the Console War can only favour Us, the Gamers.

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#3 Geogyf
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what about call of duty then? why was it praised by Gamespot?

same things here but judged differently

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#4 Geogyf
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Gamespot values originality above all else, their holy grail if you prefer. If a game doesnt match that, then its off to the garbage can with scores like 4 or 4.5. Was the game mediocre? Probably. But it was not garbage. Gamespot praised original Dead Island combat, but BURIES Riptide combat. Was that worse? or just the same (most likely). The real question here is that Gamespot judges with one blind eye. *cough*cough* Call of Duty