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Resistance Fall of Man - Gamespot review
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what the **** is everyone's problem. seriously WHAT THE ****. how is 8.6 a bad score, how 8.5, how even 8.0 or 7.5 if you want. i've got plenty of 8 and 7 games i LOVE. what's to damage control and what's to "ruh-roh"? what did you guys expect? 10s? why?
as soon as a game gets more than a 7.0 i stop worrying about the score and start reading up on the game to see if I might like it.
what is wrong with everyone?
and how can some people seriously - in all seriousness - complain about shit like HOW COULD PDZ GET A BETTER SCORE, WHY DOES THIS GAME HAVE A HIGHER SCORE, SO THIS RANDOM GAME IS BETTER, WHY IS THIS GAME EXACTLY 0.2 POINTS BETTER THAN THAT GAME. (i'm not talking about wario, i know he's joking)
what do you guys think reviewers do? you think they go through all the reviews in their ****ing database to check if their score matches up with all the other games they reviewed? why would they do that? standards change, people change, everything ****ing changes. MY MOM IS BETTER THAN YOUR MOM
as soon as a game gets more than a 7.0 i stop worrying about the score and start reading up on the game to see if I might like it.
what is wrong with everyone?
and how can some people seriously - in all seriousness - complain about shit like HOW COULD PDZ GET A BETTER SCORE, WHY DOES THIS GAME HAVE A HIGHER SCORE, SO THIS RANDOM GAME IS BETTER, WHY IS THIS GAME EXACTLY 0.2 POINTS BETTER THAN THAT GAME. (i'm not talking about wario, i know he's joking)
what do you guys think reviewers do? you think they go through all the reviews in their ****ing database to check if their score matches up with all the other games they reviewed? why would they do that? standards change, people change, everything ****ing changes. MY MOM IS BETTER THAN YOUR MOM
typhonsentra
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10 pages ahoy!
GitarooMan
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Some people want validation of their system choice maybe, I don't know. Can't be much to do with actually disagreeing with the score because so few have played. All I know is that I'm pumped to pick it up Friday, 8.6 is a really good game I enjoy most of the time.jarosh said:
Nothing wrong with 9 for the graphics. Resistance looks great that's true, but it still uses some older generation technology, especially for lighting and shadowing. After seeing GoW in action there is no way a reviewer could give more than a 9 for the graphics in Resistance. They basically maxed out what's IMHO the best possible usage of COD2/HL2 like engine. And that's already quite an achievement considering it's an exclusive launch title, and it's locked at 30 fps. Insomniac can be proud of their game.Insane Metal said:
Ynos Yrros
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" Derivative visual style and gameplay is well crafted but mostly unoriginal" - I don't agree with that at all, especially considering that it has new weapons and gameplay differs from any other FPS on the market from what I've seen and read, also graphics look stylish to me.
All in all, it's just another Greg's ("hard games get 2 points less" and gamespot's review, with their "no 9s for PlayStation games" rule, but it's nicely written, and actually goes into detail, unlike 1up's review, so that opinion is well justified.
All in all, it's just another Greg's ("hard games get 2 points less" and gamespot's review, with their "no 9s for PlayStation games" rule, but it's nicely written, and actually goes into detail, unlike 1up's review, so that opinion is well justified.
Insane Metal
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Blimblim said:
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That´s what I mean... it should be LESS than 9. IMO.
fortified_concept
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Great score. Kasavin is a harsh but fair reviewer and the review itself covers every feature of the game perfectly.
Kasavin ftw as always. I love this guy.
Kasavin ftw as always. I love this guy.
8.6 from Greg Kasavin for a PS game is a 9.5 game for me. He game stuff like DMC3 8.6, MGS3 8.7, SOTC 8.7 etc. so yeah sounds like I am going to be loving me some Resistance (since I loved all 3 of those games very much).
9.0, not 9+. No PS game has gotten over 9.0 for quite some time by Greg K.Hunter D said:
HomerSimpson-Man
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Dahbomb said:
To things more muddled we also realized yesterday to get it's graphics, the PS3 version was quite possibly rendering at a higher resolution than the X360 version. So that 8/9 thing, either way now.
mckmas8808
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Good review.
thehighlight
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This should be fun.
SolidSnakex
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Good score and a nicely written reviwe.
Red Blaster
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Hunter D said:
A 9.0 for FF12. Last PS2 game to get above a 9 was RE4, last original PS2 game to get above a 9 was gee I dunno....God Of War in like early 2005?
Don't really have any problems with the Resistance review, but Greg's DMC3:SE fiasco was amusing (and pretty dumb).
Ynos Yrros
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9.0, if you check it out, that's as far as PlayStation games go. FFXII - 9.0, Okami - 9.0, DQVIII - 9.0. If you ask me, if any PG this generetaion deserved around 10 score - it's FFXII, but, I don't work for GS, and obviosuly there's no fan of PlayStation in there, since all those amazing games couldn't go over 9.0, which was done by a FEAR X360 port :lol .Hunter D said:
Last time PlayStation exclusive game got more than 9.0 was probably with GOW, I believe Daxter was released later, but that one didn't deserve the score it got IMO.
Insomniac seems to be stuck in the 85-90 review range for their games, all the way back through to Spyro. There's something to be said for such consistency - they don't set out to reinvent, they mostly refine, managing to produce technically accomplished games with distinct personality. They're not the type of dev to sequester themselves away for several years and then put all their eggs in one basket with a single genre redefining game. They seem to prefer the iterative approach in their actual game releases and it seems to serve them well so far.
fortified_concept
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Ynos Yrros said:
Like many other have said no game is perfect. The 10 score should be reserved from the sites and magazines until a perfect game shows up. As long as the reviewer find flaws in the game it should never receive a 10 score. Kasavin is right on spot with his reviews.
Razoric said:
No just 1up.
typhonsentra
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Wow, this isn't causing the uproar I expected.
HomerSimpson-Man
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fortified_concept said:
For the last time 10 does not mean perfect! Especially for scores that are weighted and calculated (like Gamespot) for a release in it's time period, it just means it excelled in every category against the best of the best being achieved.
SolidSnakex
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typhonsentra said:
Nope, but some people are are trying to stir things.
plagiarize
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wait, why the **** are people dragging F.E.A.R. into this? it's a great game, though it's averaging a bit less in reviews than resistance. but so what? some sites like it more, some like it the same.
oh no!
i'm with dark10x on PDZ = anomaly you can't compare scores for.
oh no!
i'm with dark10x on PDZ = anomaly you can't compare scores for.
typhonsentra
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I think it's just that Kasavin puts too much weight on online co-op.plagiarize said:
Angelcurio
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140.85 said:Darn good for a launch game. PS3 will have it's "G.O.W." soon enough.
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Stinkles said:
HOly shit, thats absolutely terrible :lol
I cant complain about the score since most of my favorite rpg´s (wild arms series) never goes past 7.6 on gamespot
HomerSimpson-Man
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Blunty said:
Has it really been 5 years? Time flies by.
fortified_concept
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HomerSimpson-Man said:
I don't know the way I see it I would never give a game a 10. Even for FFXII which imo is the game of the gen and even though I finished it I still play, I wouldn't give a 10 score since I find flaws.
Baron Aloha
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Blunty said:
2000/2001 ftw?
plagiarize
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Gears online co op is ****ing awesome.typhonsentra said:
PDZ's doesn't nearly save the game.
did he give halo 2 less than a 9 since that lacks online co op too?
online co op is a killer feature for me. it's what got me to buy PDZ. i didn't keep it for very long.
exactly guys. no playstation game would ever recieve a 9.6 today. not a chance.
i guess the "journalists" are tired of sony dominating so they are trying to make the 360 look better to make people defect from the sony camp. like someone said, when not even ff12, okami nor subsistence gets a 9+ you know its something funky with gamespot.
i guess the "journalists" are tired of sony dominating so they are trying to make the 360 look better to make people defect from the sony camp. like someone said, when not even ff12, okami nor subsistence gets a 9+ you know its something funky with gamespot.
I meant Greg Kasavin not Gamespot. Gamespot as a whole is fine, its Greg that is well... something is off. He always writes well-written, justified reviews but the scores are always off from the actual written stuff. Plus he doesn't seem to enjoy hard/complicated games that much.PhatSaqs said:
The video review is pretty good. The game controlls really well and the action is very intense.
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