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EDGE Jan 09 Scores - come for the review scores, but stay for the whine!
- Thread starter acm2000
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Has Edge ever announced if they round up or down from .5? Because for a few of those games, yeah if it's a 6.8 rounded down to 6, that makes a lot more sense to me, but if they do round up, there is no F*CKING way that some of their 6s are below 6.5.
I thought gaming publications were supposed to be all about "transparency" nowadays . . . why does it still have to be such a mysterious guessing game with these morons?
I thought gaming publications were supposed to be all about "transparency" nowadays . . . why does it still have to be such a mysterious guessing game with these morons?
Ryu Hayabusa
Member
It´s a fuck*ng joke?
Spirit of Jazz
Banned
scitek said:
TLR is an above average game
Kabuki Waq
Member
wtf @ the Price of Persia score.
Its almost as if Edge Values Gameplay over pretty pictures and sounds! WTF!
Its almost as if Edge Values Gameplay over pretty pictures and sounds! WTF!
Fenderputty
Banned
Good Job LBP!
Don't really care much about the game reviewed, but wow they didn't seem to like any of them.
Don't really care much about the game reviewed, but wow they didn't seem to like any of them.
Cosmonaut X
Member
I said it before, but this thread is a perfect example of why at least some gaming review mags/sites need to abandon scoring and just concentrate on solid writing in their reviews - or at the very most settle on a Thumbs Up! / Thumbs Down! score.
Perhaps then posters here and elsewhere could get down to discussing the merits of any criticisms made in a review instead of waving numbers around like apes flinging shit.
Perhaps then posters here and elsewhere could get down to discussing the merits of any criticisms made in a review instead of waving numbers around like apes flinging shit.
I AM JOHN!
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Oh come on Edge, really?acm2000 said:
acm2000 said:
So they're just wildly inconsistent. Got it.
Seriously, Edge's reviews have no meaning if you're going to go that route. I think it's pretty clear what it means if 1up gives a game a B as opposed to a C, regardless of the reviewer. Edge hides behind this mystical shroud of secrecy with their review scores that they always are able to get by.
TheGreatDave
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HOW DARE ONE PERSON THINK POP IS A 5 AND ANOTHER PERSON THINK SONIC IS A 6.
PepsimanVsJoe
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Honestly if Edge agreed with me 100% of the time there wouldn't be any issues.
I AM JOHN!
Banned
I thought Edge still didn't publish the reviewers.TheGreatDave said:
Visualante
Member
"[Chloe] a raven haired fellow treasure hunter who will often get Drake in trouble"FirewalkR said:
Can't say I agree at all with Castlevania's score. Although, I'll get over it, especially when considering that the opinions of the game tend to vary pretty wildly when you go beyond the typical gaming press sites. For all we know, the guy could have gotten stuck on Brachyura or something.
Pretty surprised about PoP, Patapon 2, and Sonic Unleashed. Poor Last Remnant has been getting decimated by the press, but yet the players themselves tend to love it? I'm not aiming at a "LoL Edge lol RPG reviewers" comment, but I've just found that quite fascinating.
Armored Core For Answer is much higher than I expected and probably higher than it deserves to be (and this is coming from some one who liked For Answer much more over the crap that was Armored Core 4). But eh, I'd like to read that review to see if it was an AC veteran or a newcomer.
Pretty surprised about PoP, Patapon 2, and Sonic Unleashed. Poor Last Remnant has been getting decimated by the press, but yet the players themselves tend to love it? I'm not aiming at a "LoL Edge lol RPG reviewers" comment, but I've just found that quite fascinating.
Armored Core For Answer is much higher than I expected and probably higher than it deserves to be (and this is coming from some one who liked For Answer much more over the crap that was Armored Core 4). But eh, I'd like to read that review to see if it was an AC veteran or a newcomer.
Danne-Danger
Member
So what did they say about Patapon 2?
TheGreatDave
Banned
I AM JOHN! said:
They don't, but it's safe to say the games probably weren't reviewed by the same person...
I get disagreeing with reviews (They gave GTA4 a 10, they're obviously wrong on occasion) but this whole "they gave x an 8, so their review of y is invalid!" is still as old now as it's always been.
I AM JOHN!
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Nah, I wasn't saying that. I just don't get how they said that an awesome game is totally average and a terrible game is above average.TheGreatDave said:
But whatever, it's Edge.
xs_mini_neo
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ItsInMyVeins said:
Did TP have time travel? Nope. It just used a bland gimmick wolf transformation that wasn't exciting or interesting, so TP bombed in the stand-out category for that reason alone. Everything else about TP was very good, though.
acm2000 said:
Not saying they have to jive perfectly with my opinion, but pointing out that if scores aren't objective--and these attention-whore scores certainly aren't--wtf is the point of having a measurement in the first place?
But like I said this might all be somewhat mooted if I actually knew what their rounding policy was.
TheGreatDave
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I AM JOHN! said:
I don't think POP is awesome. Weird how that works!
freethought
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The award was best hardware, not best platform. Change the name of the award or change the winner. Nice to see the latest hardware revision finally fixed RROD though, just like the last one...
Any new info on Uncharted?
Any new info on Uncharted?
I AM JOHN!
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Well you like Katy Perry, so your opinions are questionable anyhow.TheGreatDave said:I don't think POP is awesome. Weird how that works!
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lsslave said:
while I think castlevania is awesome, edge will always mark games down for being endless sequels with the same gameplay and in some cases the same graphics from previous games.
If you like castlevanias, this ones a good one too, but it doesn't really do anything orginal it's just more of the same (it's more of the same awesome though)
Visualante
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First half of the review states that it is essentially the same game again. Then in the later half they say that the additions are largely damaging to the formula (a tank Patapon), an "undercooked multiplayer mode". Though the levelling system is more flexible, other more powerful Rarepons make the game super easy with the same old boss strategies and some harsh sounding repetition of stages.Danne-Danger said:
"This all adds up to an extremely unambitious sequel. Cynical isn't a word you would necessarily want to associate with Patapon, and the truth is probably harsher anyway. Patapon 2 is following a game concept that was realised the first time around" going on to mention a lack of serious innovation.
freethought
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Duodenum said:
I don't really. But the award was called best hardware which I foolishly assumed meant the award was about hardware, not platform or library or online service or OS or any of the other factors which presumably lead them to choose 360 as a winner. The only thing they can't have factored in was the hardware itself.
Lord Error
Insane For Sony
Do they say anything new about Uncharted 2? Any new screens?