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[Derrick01]

I guess we're already forgetting how they handled ME3 around launch and before launch. How they had ads all over the place and let one of their own actually be in the game, and how one of their staff members made a video tearing everyone who hated the ending apart with the typical entitled BS.

They're still IGN. They're just not afraid to give games bad scores that are backed by non-powerful publishers.

 

[BorkBork]

Who would actually ignore games because one terrible website gives them poor scores?

COME ON!

 

[Ganondorfo]

My decisions about the quality of a game have never and are unlikely to ever come down to an IGN review.

But you still will play these games one day and form your opinion about it?

 

[B_Rik_Schitthaus]

They are trashing almost every game out there.

Silent hill downpour
resident evil raccoon city
ninja gaiden 3
I am alive


But this thread is, will you still play these games, or ignore them?

Those all are, or look to be horrible games.

 

[mollipen]

None of those games looked good, so I don't see why it is a big deal that they aren't getting great review scores.

I'm one of the harshest critics of Silent Hill out there—and I can easily say that Downpour doesn't deserve what IGN gave it.

 

[hey_it's_that_dog]

After looking at the metacritic distributions, it does look like IGN is a negative outlier for NG3 and SHownpour. Still, two data points aren't evidence of a shift towards harsher reviewing standards.

 

[Trent Strong]

Those all are, or look to be horrible games.

Downpour is decent.

 

[Dark Stalkers]

Downpour is decent.

That means horrible on the internet.

 

[Trent Strong]

That means horrible on the internet.

Oh yeah, I forgot about internet hyperbole.

 

[TheGreatMightyPoo]

If nothing else, their low scores are seem slightly more honest since it's obvious they haven't been paid for the review...

Unless they are paid by rival game makers.

 

[Anticitizen One]

Despite what people think of their op-ed pieces I have always trusted IGN's review scores (aside from the one or two exceptions over the years like Godhand). If IGN says Ninja Gaiden 3 sucks I have no reason to believe them especially when they have changed so much of what made the Itagki games special. I also wasn't expecting much from Downpour either and they don't just give 9s to just the "big games". Rayman Origins, Twisted Metal, and SSX all scored in the 9s and rightfully so as they are great games.

 

[Fantastical]

I too have noticed the lower than usual scores. Seeing a 3/10 from IGN just makes you think "WTF happened?" to a game.

 

[radioheadrule83]

What an insult to Edge! I mean, a seriously massive insult.

 

[Dash Kappei]

They could get away with it. Not a single one of those is a AAA release.

I had a blast looking at the scores in the newest Game Informer. If you eliminate Journey (cuz DD games probably aren't in the language of their payola contracts) every game is scored by some system that has NOTHING to do with game quality and everything to do with some other metric (budget, moneyhat, nonprofessional relationship with the PR people). I mean really. The scale is 7-9 and it is pretty much based solely on how much the pub has spent on marketing.

What a fucking joke.

Wait, isn't Game Informer = GameStop?
Also Journey is a DD only game, no retail. I think you can find some logic inbetween the two.

 

[SapientWolf]

Well, at least they were right about NG3.

The uninterrupted stream of bitter, salty hate was pure poetry.

 

[Seraphinianus]

gonna take more than that to become the next edge

 

[Mudkips]

site gives bad games good/decent score, GAF complains
site gives bad games bad score, GAF complains

That needs to be posted in this thread:
http://neogaf.net/forum/showthread.php?p=31478846

 

[Zekes!]

site gives bad games good/decent score, GAF complains
site gives bad games bad score, GAF complains

sounds about right

 

[SykoTech]

Edge is getting soft these days, themselves.

Anyways, those 4 games looked pretty bad to me from the start, so I don't see what the big deal is. If they had slammed Twisted Metal, SSX, Mass Effect 3, and Kid Icarus, then I might have agreed with you.

 

[Dennis]

site gives bad games good/decent score, GAF complains
site gives bad games bad score, GAF complains

If only I could get my hands on this GAF guy.....

 

[cluxdeluxe]

n

 

[kswiston]

I guess we're already forgetting how they handled ME3 around launch and before launch. How they had ads all over the place and let one of their own actually be in the game, and how one of their staff members made a video tearing everyone who hated the ending apart with the typical entitled BS.

They're still IGN. They're just not afraid to give games bad scores that are backed by non-powerful publishers.

It's not really a conspiracy theory when more or less every publication and website gave ME3 similar scores.

Also, while dedicating a rebuttal video to it is a little much, plenty of people are getting fed up with the internet hyperbole surrounding everything related to Bioware. Mass Effect 3's ending sucked, but so do plenty of endings of otherwise good/great games. Do we really need multiple threads (one of which is over 20k posts) dedicated to that?

Anyhow, IGN has as many score 2-3 points over the aggregate average as they do scores 2-3 points below. All of these IGN 3-5 games will still end up with pretty mediocre aggregate averages reflecting divisive opinions. IGN just happens to be on the low end in these cases. Not really that noteworthy.

 

[Seraphis Cain]

They are trashing almost every game out there.

Silent hill downpour
resident evil raccoon city
ninja gaiden 3
I am alive


But this thread is, will you still play these games, or ignore them?

Here's an idea.

Maybe they're bad games.

 

[bigdaddygamebot]

Shouldn't that be applauded?

Or should we be against it because it's IGN and not Giant Bomb?

Uh...yeah?

 

[FunkyPajamas]

They are trashing almost every game out there.

Silent hill downpour
resident evil raccoon city
ninja gaiden 3
I am alive

Well, those 4 games in particular, judging from previews/impressions/videos... I mean... yeah.

IGN is not exactly in the wrong here.

 

[PetriP-TNT]

Those all are, or look to be horrible games.

I don't know about I am Alive but Downpour looks surprisingly good actually.

 

[dacuk]

Since when GAF takes IGN / Kotaku / Destructoid / [fill with any games site] seriously?

 

[KiteGr]

IGN is not the only site that trashes these 4 titles..

 

[DaBuddaDa]

In the same period of time they gave other various games scores of: 8, 8, 9, 8.5, 8, 8.5, 8.5, 8.5, 9.5.

Maybe they just thought those 4 games were really bad? Naw, couldn't be.

 

[Derrick01]

It's not really a conspiracy theory when more or less every publication and website gave ME3 similar scores.

Also, while dedicating a rebuttal video to it is a little much, plenty of people are getting fed up with the internet hyperbole surrounding everything related to Bioware. Mass Effect 3's ending sucked, but so do plenty of endings of otherwise good/great games. Do we really need multiple threads (one of which is over 20k posts) dedicated to that?

Whether or not the actual game is good doesn't matter in this case. I was talking about the extremely questionable and sometimes unprofessional way they handled their ME3 coverage.

How can I take your exclusive first review seriously when your site is a walking advertisement for it and one of your staff is in the game?

 

[MattDoza]

Let's talk about ign, since when they turned into Edge

They are trashing almost every game out there.

Silent hill downpour
resident evil raccoon city
ninja gaiden 3
I am alive


But this thread is, will you still play these games, or ignore them?

 

[AkuMifune]

Downpour is pretty rad, so yeah, the whole site and everything they do is terrible, not just the one desperate reviewer.

Just like Edge.

 

[boingball]

None of those games interest me, so I will ignore them. And neither Edge nor IGN will change that. Usually I know whether I want to buy a game or not. Occasionally I have a game I am on the edge with (Grand Slam Tennis this year was one), where I read some reviews to convince me either way (in the end I usually then pass on the game anyway, as I did with Grand Slam Tennis).

NeoGAF might convince me to buy a game (as it did with Trinity: Souls of Zill O'll, which after playing the demo I had on my no-buy list).

 

[B_Rik_Schitthaus]

Oh yeah, I forgot about internet hyperbole.

I don't talk through hyberbole, but rather from the point of view of someone who likes horror to feel like it's a confession on behalf of the creators, ever since moving from Team Silent the games have felt like a bunch of designers getting together to gross each other out and then just making those ideas into 14 hours of game.

NeoGAF might convince me to buy a game (as it did with Trinity: Souls of Zill O'll, which after playing the demo I had on my no-buy list).

Go get Binary Domain, it's the best game of the year.(so far)

 

[Keikoku]

Post first reply in every thread

Wario64

shots fired

 

[Oni Link 666]

But this thread is, will you still play these games, or ignore them?

I don't even, understand what, the fuck this, guy is saying,

 

[jooey]

But you still will play these games one day and form your opinion about it?

Stop. You lost. Pack it up.

 

[Des0lar]

site gives bad games good/decent score, GAF complains
site gives bad games bad score, GAF complains

Yeah this. I would be glad if more people shit on my favorite games. (not literally)

 

[hydrophilic attack]

complain about sites giving 8+ to all games


complain about site when uses whole scale

Someone should make a GAF poster meme-generator meme for stuff like this

 

[Para bailar La Bomba]

The comparison with Edge is bullshit.

Edge doesn't proliferate their reviews with emotional language and maintain, for the most part, a consistent scale.

IGN are just attention-whores with bipolar disorder.

 

[Des0lar]

Since when GAF takes IGN / Kotaku / Destructoid / [fill with any games site] seriously?

Since that Uncharted 3 debacle.


Or not.

 

[Speevy]

It is my understanding that Edge writers have a pretty strong grasp of the English language beyond message board and PR-speak.

They are not IGN.

 

[udivision]

Yeah this. I would be glad if more people shit on my favorite games. (not literally)

I can't believe that after the Uncharted 3 thread.

 

[VVIS]

Did the game really deserve a 3 or did the publisher not feed them any money?

New anti sequal policy scores using number of the sequel. Because nobody likes sequels.

 

[rCIZZLE]

The scoring IGN uses is lazy and a joke. Oh we feel the game deserves an overall 5? That means sound is a 5, presentation is a 5, graphics is a 5, etc.

 

[HocusPocus]

I have never cared less about reviews in my life. The importance of them seems so trivial lately. I like Giant Bomb's and that is about it.

 

[SMT]

They have the gall to send a message towards all the gaming companies thinking they can milk their fans out of every cent while bringing them mediocrity at its finest.

I hope Itagaki comes back, I can't stand the new guy who's name I keep forgetting.
Racoon City was lame, don't kid yourselves.

Ninja Gaiden III should not be named as so.

 

[Tiktaalik]

I think it's just a coincidence of a bunch of average games being released at once.

 

[Rahxephon91]

What's shocking here? All those games looked so-so and the threads about them here were cautious more then anything. Also all of them have gotten various bad scores elsewhere. IGN is the same.

Will I buy these games? No, but that has nothing to do with IGN. Wouldn't even know about IGN's scores were if not for GAF. I'm not buying them because they all look pretty meh.

 

[ShockingAlberto]

To be fair, I called ME2 bad after a week.

I listed it as my Game of the Year, pretty much a year after release.

But my opinion must be dismissed because internet!!!!!