BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
Gotta love that old rating scale. The better the game, the more 90s kid you become.
This. Now what all matters are the scores. Abrupt one at that. They know more ave joe wouldn't read the content thats why I said they determine the score first then made up the content.Old Nintendo Powers (especially from the start through mid-N64) were incredibly awesome.
Detailed, in-depth looks at games, really showing you what the game was about. You could actually get a feel for games from them.
Now, reviews are basically just "here's what some person thought about this game" or "here's this game judged on a couple of arbitrary attributes" and people skipping over that anyway and just looking at a number at the end.
Yes bloodborne and the order guaranteed low scores no matter what. Quote me on it.
Old Nintendo Powers (especially from the start through mid-N64) were incredibly awesome.
Detailed, in-depth looks at games, really showing you what the game was about. You could actually get a feel for games from them.
Now, reviews are basically just "here's what some person thought about this game" or "here's this game judged on a couple of arbitrary attributes" and people skipping over that anyway and just looking at a number at the end.
Old Nintendo Powers (especially from the start through mid-N64) were incredibly awesome.
Detailed, in-depth looks at games, really showing you what the game was about. You could actually get a feel for games from them.
Now, reviews are basically just "here's what some person thought about this game" or "here's this game judged on a couple of arbitrary attributes" and people skipping over that anyway and just looking at a number at the end.
This. Now what all matters are the scores. Abrupt one at that. They know more ave joe wouldn't read the content thats why I said they determine the score first then made up the content.
We'll see about that.Not sure which universe you live in, but Bloodborne is most certainly going to be a crtitical favorite. There's no way it could be as "meh" as Dark Souls 2, which still got extremely favorable reviews all around.
That is some rose colored glasses. The Nintendo Power equivalent in my country was basically a paid ad.
That is some rose colored glasses.
Nope, I still read them regularly:
Nice I have a small collection but it only spans about 2 years
The actual Nintendo power was nothing like that
Because most of the reviewer today seems to determine score first then made up the content later. They're clearly biased especially towards sony exclusive lately. I mean what the hell is next gen gameplay? Gives us example explain to us.
Yes bloodborne and the order guaranteed low scores no matter what. Quote me on it.
Nintendo Power was in Nintendo's pocket. I was a huge Nintendo fan as a youth, but no one took NP seriously back then. I'd like others my age to chime in. NP was considered a shill mag.
Jeff Gerstmann said at multiple times that print magazines employed non-serious lazy crass bums who sat on their asses most of the time.
GamesTM is stil pretty good, Edge still is high quality for reviews. I dont think there has been a huge drop off tbh.
Internet writer puts down print writers - news at 11!
That all games have to be 3D thing really pissed me off back then, many magazines I read where snooty about any game being in 2D anymore, disregarding that most of those 2D games just couldn't be done on the 16-bit consoles. I think its the main reason many sequels got pushed to 3D graphics with no thought as to if it was a good idea. The only magazine I read that really championed 2D games at the time was the official UK Sega Saturn magazine, which of course had a good reason to do so as the Saturn was the 2D powerhouse. I really loved that magazine, not just for giving 2D a chance but for their in depth articles and championing of games they felt were overlooked.Eh. It's always been about the same. EGM issued some stupid reviews back in the day.
"I hate the VF series so VF2 didn't impress me much. 7" (Paraphrased, but that was essentially one of their reviews.) They also shat on Jaguar Doom but thought the same code running in a tiny window was worthy of 9's on the 32x.
Then you have Nick Rox with his blue shadows.
The whole Next Gen thinking they should get to dictate the future of game design so therefore all 2d games are crap now was stupid backwards thinking too.
I don't see a whole lotta difference now.
Internet writer puts down print writers - news at 11!
He started in a magazine, I think.
Also, he is a veteran and don't usually shit on other collages.
Internet-based writers decrying the survivability/quality of print writers is a pretty common theme over the past 20 years.
And for most of the past decade+ it's just been kicking a dead horse.
Dude... You realize that print is not what it was?
https://twitter.com/misterbrilliant/status/483224360418041856/photo/1
This is the review that got me blacklisted by EA. Some shitbag executive wanted me fired.
https://twitter.com/misterbrilliant/statuses/483625602747203585
I was told to "just stick to the facts" in my review of the next Sims expansion.
lol
Because most of the reviewer today seems to determine score first then made up the content later. They're clearly biased especially towards sony exclusive lately. I mean what the hell is next gen gameplay? Gives us example explain to us.
I remember back in the day how game reviewer were more harsh and I took their opinion higly. Right now I feels it only a matter of time before someone leak how corrupt they are.
Advancement in tech like share play and streaming would kill them sooner than later. They should rise their standard but they lower it instead.
Yes bloodborne and the order guaranteed low scores no matter what. Quote me on it.