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Reviews that were totally 'off'

Glix said:
Any review at Sony Defense Force. (I'm still not sure if this site is a joke or not)
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Even though I play games on Sony systems and PC almost exclusively I would not visit a site called sony defense force. If someone actually had something relevant to share they wouldn't have the stupid name and would cover non-sony products.
 
Grayman said:
Even though I play games on Sony systems and PC almost exclusively I would not visit a site called sony defense force. If someone actually had something relevant to share they wouldn't have the stupid name and would cover non-sony products.
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It's an anti-sony fanboy blog, from what I've seen of it.
 
xS1TH L0RDx said:
Too Human
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Agreed, the game should be getting much lower scores. Also, Denis Dyack should be charged for crimes against humanity for releasing that turd.

btw,

Any review at Sony Defense Force. (I'm still not sure if this site is a joke or not)
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Seriously? I mean come on, you cant be real
 
There's so many you could find if you went back, but the ones that come to mind are:

Gamespot - 7.5 for Ratchet and Clank TOD
IGN - 3.0 for God Hand
Every review site - 10 for GTA 4. If there was ever a game that didn't deserve a 10, it's GTA4.
Every review site - Not enough 9+ scores for Crackdown. One of the most underrated games ever created. Crackdown is a true gamer's game.
 
stawnkald said:
Shadow Hearts. IGN. 5.5.

FUCK YOU GUYS
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SCHLURP

SCHLURP

SCHLURP

(Quote from the scene with the old lady)

The IGN review had some good points in it.

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I really can't think of a single review that pisses me off or feels completely off-base (joke reviews aside). As long the reviewers justify their points, how can one complain? Read many reviews (not just the scores) to get an understanding of the wide variety of reactions that people have to the game.

I loved God Hand, but that 3.0 review? It has a lot of good points that people should really consider when thinking about buying the game.
 
IGN's Disgaea 3 review. He keeps comparing Disgaea 3 (unfavorably) to the previous Disgaea games, but it really doesn't sound like he's actually ever played the others, especially given some of his complaints (camera, character portraits instead of real-time cut scenes, pointless narrative). He spends most of the review bashing on the presentation without ever mentioning the new gameplay mechanics, or really many Disgaea gameplay mechanics at all other than the massive grinding (something he would know about the Disgaea series without actually ever having played the games).

http://ps3.ign.com/articles/906/906760p1.html
 
Too bad this thread turned to such shit because people didn't read or understand the OP. Would be cool to have a reboot of it.
 
Coop said:
Seriously? I mean come on, you cant be real
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Dude, I've met some crazy PS3 fanboys on these internets (crazy fanboys for all systems, now that I think about it), and I thought it was totally possible that a bunch of insane PS3 fanboys decided to make an insanely biased site! :D
 
I agree about the "doing nothing new" critique. Plenty of games don't do anything new, but if it's still a good game or - better yet - improves on what other games have done, then what's the problem? Uncharted was Gears of War done right, imho: better AI (especially team mate AI), more gameplay variety (exploration), and a much more interesting story, even with the wacky ending. Yet it got no respect, and still doesn't.

Gears 2 reviews should be fun reads.
 
Shadow Hearts-
5.5 (IGN)- Way too low. Some problems, but a great RPG in ways.
Paper Mario: TTYD-
6.75 (GI)- Quite literally the worst gaming review ever written by a major publication, mainly for the reasoning, not the score.
God Hand-
3.0 (IGN)- It has some less than lovable design choices, but its not completely broken.
Jade Empire-
9.9 (IGN)- Very good, but not amazing. 8.9 is a more suitable score.

Also, most GAFers who bitch constantly about GTAIV or Zelda:TP are overly cynical drama queens who have been play videogames so long that their realization of what a sequel is and what a good game is has been unrealistically and sadly skewed.

Neither Twilight Princess or GTAIV is less than an "8.5" or "B" type game. I would LOVE for anyone to convince me otherwise. You might not think those titles are amazing, but you must respect them for what they are.
 
I completely agree with the three guys before me that mentioned GameSpot's Radiant Dawn review.

My first reaction in seeing the score was "Ugh..." so I read it just to see...and of course, the Mii support stood out the most to me like almost everyone else.

Jesus Christ.
 
I see the obvious one has been mentioned already. :D

Also GTAIV, ughh what a disappointing game. 10/10 my ass, 7/10 is more like it.
 
Danielsan said:
I see the obvious one has been mentioned already. :D
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:D

EDIT: Everyone complaining about 5.5 score for Shadow Hearts... Swedish SuperPLAY gave it a 3/10.
 
I remember thinking that the Suikoden V scores were pretty lackluster in EGM, but whatever, they're numbers and they didn't really affect my enjoyment of the game at all. I wonder if there is such a person who thinks "I just can't enjoy a game that scores less than a 7 in EGM". I wonder if they truly believe that. Pretty pathetic if so.
 
I only know of one.




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Aside from that, big freaking meh. I knew the op would post some Sony games though, i gotta go see a doctor, i might have powers.
 
AMUSIX said:
Too bad this thread turned to such shit because people didn't read or understand the OP. Would be cool to have a reboot of it.
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It could reboot a thousand times and the result will always be the same: People posting scores they disagree with because they are too high or low.
 
A whole load of PS3 games tbh, I only know one 360 game I feel that was really underated/under-scored across the board and that was Kameo, Still one of my fav games on the 360.
 
The Broken Record review..

Just copy-paste all the 250 best reviewed games which is not on the "elitist-list" or isn't on the system of your choice list (Or reverse for "underrated" games), because that's what it always comes back to anyway.
 
BigBoss said:
Like what?
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The multiplayer is pure gold. Gears of War made cover, suppressive fire and melee work in a very intimate environment like no game before it. The result is more than the sum of its parts in this case as well. So 'like what?' is a pretty dumb question in that regard.
 
Mesijs said:
What do I mean by 'off'? I mean reviews that didn't made sense at all. Like, when a game get totally overrated or underrated, but more importantly, when the reviewer is talking bullshit.
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1UP's Neverwinter Nights 2 review and the hilarity that followed.
 
WrikaWrek said:
I only know of one.




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Aside from that, big freaking meh. I knew the op would post some Sony games though, i gotta go see a doctor, i might have powers.
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Playstation exclusive, minus 1 point.
 
Oh I forgot one of the worst I have seen for RE4 Wii.
http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=77839
"It's just you won't be able to aim quickly or with precision, so it's slightly more difficult to enjoy Resident Evil 4 on the Wii."
"You'll point the Wiimote at things you want to shoot, but this is a wobbly, fuzzy experience, compared to the precision of the previous versions of the game."
"bolting on an unwieldy Wii control scheme adds nothing to the game "
"and plays exactly the same but with worse controls"
 
Lately the Edge MGS4 review raised my ire. It seemed to be more of a review of the pre-release hype than the game. In fact they talked more about the interview with Kojima they printed a couple of issues before than they did the actual game! Seriously, the lack of substantive info in the review gave me a headache.

They did mention the Cobra unit casting a shadow over the B&B Corps and the small maps which I have to say gave me case for concern. Turns out the only reason map size was mentioned was, surprisingly enough, another reference to the Kojima interview and as far as the bosses go, I'll just say this; The End =/= Cobra unit.

Finally, after playing through MGS4 I re-read the review. Honestly, it's like we were playing different games. It didn't even come close to capturing any of the experience of playing the game. Like I said, it was more about the hype surrounding the game and half the criticisms were based on some of Kojima's musings on what he would like to have accomplished versus what he actually did. It seemed, frankly, unprofessional. It was well written though.
 
Coolio McAwesome said:
Over the years, Gamespot has provided us all with countless reviews that missed the mark.

1) In their review for Metroid Prime Hunters, Gamespot blasted the game for lacking certain multiplayer features. They specifically cited the inability to change simple settings like match length, and went on to explain that these omissions greatly reduced their ability to enjoy the multiplayer - an aspect which they correctly stated was one of the game's major selling points. What's strange is that no other site brought up these criticisms. As it turns out, Gamespot didn't bother playing the game before giving it a rating. Low and behold, features that they claimed weren't in the game, WERE in the game. Now here's where things get really good. After realizing that they fucked up, GameSpot edited their review. The negative comments were removed from the text, with a enxplanation that read, "Our review originally overlooked specific aspects of the friends/rivals system, which required a reevaluation of these parts of the game and a revision to the text. GameSpot regrets the errors." Despite admiting thier mistake and editing the text in their review accordingly, they did not change the score! Again, they had specifically claimed that the missing features had reduced their ability to enjoy the game, so logic would suggest that the revelation that these features weren't missing should have had some sort of affect on the score.

2) When Gamespot originally reviewed Shenmue for the Dreamcast, they gave it a 6.8. After they started receiving complaints, they gave the game a higher score of 7.8, but didn't even bother to change the text that accompanied it! This example clearly shows that the only difference between a 6.8 review and a 7.8 review on Gamespot is the actual number. The actual text of the review and the rating a game gets are not necessarily going to be consistent with each other. It also speaks volumes about their integrity, or lack thereof.

3) Gamespot gave Mario Kart 64 a 6.4 and claimed that it had no long-term play value and that most people would stop playing if after a week. Don't get me wrong, one could make several valid criticisms of the game, but to put the spotlight on the game's replay value as one of it's worst aspects was laughable.

4) The 6.0 Gamespot gave Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn was way too low. Their criticism that the game was "too hard" was not a valid complaint considering that, by their own admission, the game is much more strategic than similar games in the genre. In complaining about the difficulty, they were essentially complaining about a strategy game requiring too much strategy. Strategy games are supposed to kick your ass if you can't develop a decent strategy. If they find that game too hard even on the easy difficulty, then they probably shouldn't be playing strategy games in the first place. Also, I litterally laughed out loud when I read their complaint about the game not featuring Mii support. This criticism is so out of place that I guarantee that people are never going to forget it. I like Miis as much as the next guy, but they clearly don't belong in a Fire Emblem game. On the other hand, it was somewhat refreshing to see a Wii game being bashed because it's too "hardcore."

5) 8.8
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Wow.

And to think people took GameSpot seriously all up until the Gerstmann-gate? Should've been banned from the Internet long before that.
 
industrian said:
1UP's Neverwinter Nights 2 review and the hilarity that followed.
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That was a trainwreck. Didn't the reviewer admit he didn't like PC RPGs at all or something like that?
 
Fallout-NL said:
The multiplayer is pure gold. Gears of War made cover, suppressive fire and melee work in a very intimate environment like no game before it. The result is more than the sum of its parts in this case as well. So 'like what?' is a pretty dumb question in that regard.
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The multiplayer is pure garbage thanks to the atrocious netcode. Gears of War did not make cover, there were games with cover systems well before Gears was in development. One game in particular(KillSwitch) that has almost the exact same cover system and main guy who worked on that game now works at Epic on Gears. There is one thing that Gears does that nobody else does and that's the active reload system, that's it.
 
tahrikmili said:
Chromehounds.
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Yeah, almost every review on that game was off because it was obvious none of them played online/multi-or if they did, it was like one match.
 
Andrex said:
Wow.

And to think people took GameSpot seriously all up until the Gerstmann-gate? Should've been banned from the Internet long before that.
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They also gave GTAIV a 9.5 first. Then after an hour or so they changed it to 10 because everyone was complaining.
 
2 Minutes Turkish said:
Every review site - Not enough 9+ scores for Crackdown. One of the most underrated games ever created. Crackdown is a true gamer's game.
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I've got to give a huge QFT to this. Crackdown is one of, if not my favorite, games this generation. It's the perfect open-world game.
 
No6 said:
"Charming", "Brings a smile to my face", "made me feel like a child again", etc are all terms I've come to associate with fanboyism because they're almost entirely impossible to disprove and attacking them invariably leads to the original commentor turning up their nose and declaring that you're too "jaded" or some other halfwit dismissal.

My entry: Every positive review of Black & White.
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I can see that, but what is someone supposed to say? I didn't find to much wrong with that Uncharted review, but personally I find the first half of the games story to be exactly those phrases. The dialog was "charming" to me. It's an opinionated answer to an opinionated question.
 
Seiken said:
They also gave GTAIV a 9.5 first. Then after an hour or so they changed it to 10 because everyone was complaining.
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There should be a consortum of gaming publications and websites to agree on certain guidelines so that "changing the score after X amount of time" never, EVER happens. That's just really, truly fucking pathetic- disgusting almost.
 
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