Tell me Gamespot, What's the price of credibility? What about the community? Regardless of the details, perception is reality and this injustice will cost Gamespot dearly, and I'm not speaking metaphorically, I mean GS will lose cold hard cash over this, just look at how many people have cancelled their Total Access subscriptions, not to mention the countless that have vowed not to come to this site again. Tell me Gamespot, Are companies going to pony up those advertising dollars when no one is visiting your site? You've sold your soul Gamespot, your portly, funny, sarcastic, pain in the ass soul... but it was still a soul.
Judging and recomending an RPG based on watching your hapless brother inlaw play the tutorial section sounds very juvenile, that's why everyone is accusing you of being an Aterol gulping teenager, in retrospect that would've been better than a midlife male with very poor decision making skills...
And with Galaxy living up to everyone's wild expectations, Nintendo has officially hammered the last nail into this generation's coffin. those numbers are amazing, the fact the GH III on the Wii sold so many is pretty crazy, so much for 3rd parties not selling on the Wii. I've been playing Galaxy since last night and I am absolutely convinced that this game will define this generation, the buzz and goodwill for the game is incredible, I wouldn't be surprised if the Wii sells over 1 million in November. As for the PS3... Stringer says they've sold 175,000 in the 2 weeks since the price cut on Nov. 2nd, prompting him to gush "It's the breakthrough we've been anticipating. We've been holding our breath...Obviously, we've taken so much heat over the year on PS3. Finally, the turning point has been passed." Such praise! Great numbers there... almost 360 like :P
Well it seems Galaxy is everything we thought it would be, and it will certainly sell like hotcakes. What intrigues me is the fact that Galaxy seems like a beefy platformer, certainly more complex than lets say...Wii Sports, and you know all the mini-game owners will also be picking this game up. Can this title convert the casual mini-game crowd into bonafide gamers? If Nintendo manages to turn the 40 year olds who got a Wii as a status symbol into true gamers, their strategy of expanding the market is definitely working, And what better Trojan Horse than Mario? Lets say this title captures the imagination of young and old as many of us hope, What then? I don't want to be caught up in all the hyperbole around the forums, but this title could possibly make Nintendo the market leader this generation, Does anyone remember what New SMB did for the DS (along with the redesign)? There's no denying the potential is there. Nintendo as market leader should be very interesting. I've always been a fan, I remember growing up with them, but I also remember abandoning the N64 and the GC ( I did own them). To be honest, the past doesn't really matter, because Nintendo has been making all the right decisions lately, the brand couldn't be hotter, hell as a testament to that, I have a receipt for $285.67 for the Onyx and Pink DS's my wife just bought as xmas presents for the kids...My recently converted "recovering game hater" wife! In the end we should all be thankful, Galaxy seems to be a generation defining classic, although I won't get to play it until Christmas, which will be spent discovering this awesome game as my kids' will be having their best xmas yet...And we're going to Disney World for six days, definitely best xmas ever!
Gosh I wish rragnar was here, as we delved into this last night. Last time I checked I am entitled to express myself however I choose to. If you cared to read what I've posted instead of just looking at my sig, you would realize that I am ticked off that R&C recieved such a score, (although I haven't played the game, I've played the previous R&Cs, I know the studio, and it just feels right to once again pull out my pitchfork and torch) I know that people will look at my avatar and sig and be annoyed with me, disregarding completely what I say, I've been dealing with it for over a year! But it is my choice to do so, I feel wronged by Sony, and no matter what anyone says to convince me otherwise, I will use this sig until I save enough to buy a $400 PS3. I haven't said one negative thing about the PS3 on this thread. I consider myself a lover of games, regardless of what system they are on. I can reconciliate the fact that I disagree with Sony, and still admire the PS3 for what it can do. If I could afford a PS3 I would've had one by now, but I would still say they made a mistake with its pricing and that the library is lacking, you can think independently you know? Lastly, here's a pic of what use to be my sig when I first joined the forums, care to guess what controller that is?
It's still not valid, because the standards used to evaluate Kameo were not the same as Ratchet and Clank, and even if they were, it's highly unlikely that Kameo would've gotten the same score it did, as standards tend to go up as time goes along,
Hence why even though MGS3 was flat out reviewed as being a better game than MGS2 in most all regards, it still had a lower score than MGS2. The scores simply aren't as important, or really carry as much significance, as most people put on them.
Skylock00
I'll agree with that, but still there's has got to be some consistency with the way GS scores its games, because if numbers don't matter that much, then why even bother attaching them to a review, better yet, why make them be the first thing you see when you click on a review? In the end numbers may not matter as much to the reviewer, since in the end it was a positive review, but they do matter tremendously to the readers, perception, be it right or wrong, IS reality, and I guarantee the perception around these forums is that GS's review system is broken...
[QUOTE="zayas_81"]*a little amber flies in from southern cali* Kameo recieved an 8.7... Seriously I played Kameo, a good platformer, but could it be that much better than R&C? I know it was a different reviewer, but its still the same GS, right? ... Right?Skylock00
You really can't make comparisons between scores like that, given that Kameo is about 2 years old, and was rated under a different system of scoring than this one.
The scores simply can't be directly compared.
I beg to differ. Granted the score system has changed, but mainly they just did away with decimals. I know its not fair to completely compare them head to head, but its fair to use a similar game in the same genre for reference, right?
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