@SlimeSwayze Oh I realise those things all right. However, the fact that this site is based in the US or the fact that it is the biggest market in the world makes no difference to the fact that worldwide sales are far more important than US sales numbers alone, and don't account for the ridiculous comments posted by the international audience which visits GS
When are people going to realise the USA is just one country? The PS3 overtook the 360 months ago in worldwide sales despite being released a year later
How could this game score a 4.5? For the sake of coherence and consistency, surely a review score must, as a rule, be a definitive barometer to decide between different games. Is Kevin VanOrd saying that this EVERY SINGLE GAME scored above 4.5 (that is, 5.0 and above) on GameSpot is a better game than RE 6? With RE 6's level of polish, even on its merits as a technical (i.e. graphical, audio-visual) achievement alone, is it even tenable to say RE 6 is a worse game than the thousands of games on GameSpot scored 5.0 and above? This boggles my mind, truly.
On what basis do you say something isn't "good enough"? The fact that millions the world over buy something, rendering it an unqualified commercial success, is all the indication that a business needs to say that it is "good enough". If I started a business that could sell seven year old technology at massive volumes without having to innovate, I would do it too. You're only partially right when you say "Progress is the driving force of this and every other industry" - progress doesn't have to be technological. Nintendo's hardware and every other indie developer's technologically inferior but otherwise superior games demonstrate this. The industry isn't driven by the critical position taken by a video game journalist but the consumer dollars spent on every game and platform. And where we, as a collective body of consumers, spend enough on something to return a profit to the company that sells it, we say that the product is, whether Tom McShea thinks so, "good enough".
My top 5: Final Fantasy X Pro Evolution Soccer 5 Championship Manager 3 Gran Turismo 4 Gran Theft Auto San Andreas A pretty good mix I'd say. Civilization 4 and Metal Gear Solid Snake Eater were notable omissions.
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