TheGreatMightyPoo
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Raitosaito said:I have no words for this...
Juniors love perfect obviously bias scores.
How do you know it's biased???
Are the slew of other 10s biased too because they gave it the top score it could get???
Raitosaito said:I have no words for this...
Juniors love perfect obviously bias scores.
TheGreatMightyPoo said:How do you know it's biased???
Are the slew of other 10s biased too because they gave it the top score it could get???
TheGreatMightyPoo said:How do you know it's biased???
Are the slew of other 10s biased too because they gave it the top score it could get???
Damon Bennet said:It is not a 10/10 game. It could have been Wind Waker in the clouds and much more under it. But it is not. Dungeons are great, Overworld is not.
posters without avatars should dieGreen Scar said:Too many posters in here without avatars. Scary
Raitosaito said:He mentioned Famitsu as the most relevant reviewer...
Their whole Metal Solid Peace Walker advertisement debacle should be enough. When the hell did I mention other reviewer scores? What a day it is for Zelda-gaf and blind fanboyism. I haven't played the game, but I know how that publication works by now.
TheGreatMightyPoo said:You could point out "debacles" or suspect reviews in many a source.
Famitsu aside, it's very easy to dismiss some reviews but when many others correspond with them, not so much.
People here jumped the gun with Nintendo Power thinking THEY are completey biased, obviously never having read the magazine.
I'm not really defending Famitsu but they aren't banned here so they are obviously considered relevant no matter how small a sense of the word.
Raitosaito said:The editor in chief Famitsu was in an 2 full page ad on Peace Walker in his own magazine while giving it a perfect score.
That's top level corruption right there, so I don't see what your argument is. After something like that a publication should not be trusted period. And just because a review reflect another reviewer score, this isn't some hive mind where that totally validates the review...
What the hell happened to opinions.
It's still the best we've got. I'm not fond of the anonymous writer policy (which lends an undeserved patina of authority, à la The Economist), but Edge has maintained a level of writing competency that has remained unanswered by other gaming enthusiast publications and websites. Regardless of a given review's final verdict, I can still glean useful information that isn't sheathed in the wretched prose of pitiable writers from Gamespot, IGN, Game Informer, EGM, Giant Bomb, etc.Riposte said:I wouldn't say so. There are better and worse reviewers, but publications are always a mixed bag. Edge owes more of its reputation to its flashy and professional style.
Damon Bennet said:It is not a 10/10 game. It could have been Wind Waker in the clouds and much more under it. But it is not. Dungeons are great, Overworld is not.
TheGreatMightyPoo said:Some people have different priorities when it comes to Zelda and with the dungeons as great as they are, that could be enough to be a 10, especially when they enjoy the other parts of the world more than you and many others that don't care for it.
I personally don't need a mindblowing overworld.
They could have made one but that doesn't seem to be the devlopers' priority.
TheGreatMightyPoo said:Top level corruption????
Don't know about that(unless there's more to this story).
Tacky???
Sure.
I don't see this as being any worse than Game Informer giving a game a score, not based on what they thought of the game but rather what they thought OTHERS would think of the game.
You didn't mention them but if you really overanalyzed or analyzed any site or source that scores games, there'd be hardly any to trust.
Damon Bennet said:The overworld is the worst of all 3d Zeldas with the potential to be the best. This is what hurts so much and such a big flaw is enough to not warrant a ten.
Damon Bennet said:The overworld is the worst of all 3d Zeldas with the potential to be the best. This is what hurts so much and such a big flaw is enough to not warrant a ten.
radioheadrule83 said:Disagree. Passionately. It's the best. The provinces in this game are actually unique and interesting levels in and of themselves.
Since they went back and edited that part of the review, the only thing I keep thinking to myself is that he must've honestly thought that they were pointer controls the entire time he played.Effect said:Doesn't the game (in this case review copies) have an instruction manual and doesn't the game have in-game tutorials? Did the reviewer at GameSpot even bother to read them before playing the game and when they showed up in the game? I assume that would have spelled out how the controls were suppose to work (not person trying to force the game to play a way they want). Unless he didn't and rushed through the game (including any and all tutorials) as well. I can't understand his complaints regarding the controls any other way when others don't seem (from the many reviews I've read) to have an issue.
butter_stick said:The fact he was using the d-pad to recenter is proof he wasn't just relying on the unused sensor bar.
The controls can be a drag even when you know the IR isn't used.
alcabcucu said:Someone should explain Tom that Skyward Sword doesn't use the sensor bar to calibrate the wiimote. I think all his problems with the control are because of this.
Now, when you press the button to access the aiming function (entering in first person view or when using certain items) the game will consider you're pointing at the center of the screen, taking as reference the position of the wiimote when you pressed the button. So, if you press the button when your wiimote is pointing to the floor, the game will "think" the floor is the center of the screen.
Pressing the down arrow button will reset the central position, taking the position of the wiimote in that particular moment as reference, and giving the false impression that you need to recalibrate the wiimote all the time.
This is easily solved by pressing the "aiming" button (c or B -only with certain items-) RIGHT AFTER you aim at the center of the screen with your wiimote.
Why did Nintendo take this approach? Probably to give fast access to menus. Now you don't need to aim at the screen to move the cursor. With a simple and fast gesture you can choose the item you need in that particular moment. This allows to use the bow or the slingshot with the wiimote in vertical position, too (as in Wii Sports Resort).
So this is, in my opinion, the reason why Tom thought that the wiimote didn't work properly, as he even says that the infrared sensors are faulty. And they are not faulty, they simply aren't used.
As I said, someone should explain this to him. Maybe this is the reason he had issues with the wiimote, and could change his opinion about its controls.
Nex Superne said:It's still the best we've got. I'm not fond of the anonymous writer policy (which lends an undeserved patina of authority, à la The Economist), but Edge has maintained a level of writing competency that has remained unanswered by other gaming enthusiast publications and websites. Regardless of a given review's final verdict, I can still glean useful information that isn't sheathed in the wretched prose of pitiable writers from Gamespot, IGN, Game Informer, EGM, Giant Bomb, etc.
What're you a 4 year old? It's better that he admit a mistake than persisting that he didn't.SYNTAX182 said:Gamespot review error confession. Ha ha ha. Embarrassing.
They don't deserve to be in the thread title.
kayos90 said:What're you a 4 year old? It's better that he admit a mistake than persisting that he didn't.
Smellycat said:Do you guys think that Gamespot actually waited until most publications released their review scores to see how low the scores would go? And once they saw that the lowest score was basically an 8, they decided to go lower to stand out?
Imagine if that actually happened, haha
I would have been perfectly fine with the review if Gamespot released it on the 11th, at the same time as the other publications. But delaying the review by 3 or 4 days doesn't really help them.
SYNTAX182 said:Yeah, how'd you know
Smellycat said:Do you guys think that Gamespot actually waited until most publications released their review scores to see how low the scores would go? And once they saw that the lowest score was basically an 8, they decided to go lower to stand out?
Imagine if that actually happened, haha
I would have been perfectly fine with the review if Gamespot released it on the 11th, at the same time as the other publications. But delaying the review by 3 or 4 days doesn't really help them.
The Mana Legend said:So is anyone's Gamestop having a midnight release for this?
Massa said:Gamespot is never in a rush to release their reviews and people always come up with conspiracies to explain it. It never ceases to amaze me.
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Yo mama said so.
The telegraph review is the only one that's actually well-written.Corky said:Is there any well written review that doesn't spoil much of the game?
No kidding. It's amazing how much better that Telegraph review is than everything else I've read.Mistle said:That Telegraph review was very well written. Scores/opinions aside, it makes the quality of giantbomb/gamespot almost seem like a joke.
But yes, thankfully the gaming world has places like Edge, or even Eurogamer (which has impressed me a few times recently) to give some credibility to videogame journalism.
Skyward Sword will be remembered as one of the greatest chapters of the series. This is the type of game that Wii deserves. Brilliant!
AzaK said:I think I heard that Gamespot are doing a Zelda only podcast next week if people are interested.
I'm just waiting for him to talk about how the pointer controls that don't exist in the game don't work because it's all with the motion+.guek said:Why, so I can listen to a bunch of dudes talk about how GAF overreacts to everything and how despite SS being good here, here, and here, it's bad there, there, and there and thus overrated everywhere else but gamespot?
alcabcucu said:Taking advantage of all the fuss their analysis has created, I see.
That podcast will probably be the most downloaded one of the year!! X-D
BR!
alcabcucu said:Taking advantage of all the fuss their analysis has created, I see.
That podcast will probably be the most downloaded one of the year!! X-D
BR!
Is it a different review than the Eurogamer one? Sometimes they use translations.ShellyDeKiller said:
Yeah, I remember that 8.4 review. or was it 8.2? The point is, I can't believe Gerstmann gave that game an 8.0.Ganondorfo said:Remember when the 8.6 from gerstmann was considered a disgrace. I'll wonder how he would rate skyward sword, but we will never know that.
ViewtifulJC said:WW is a fucking 4/10 game, on the Anihawk scale. Boring ass exploration, mostly terrible dungeons, one of the worst end-game fetch quests in video game history, you have to go out of your way for you to be challenged by it making all the combat boring and superfluous, and ugly art design with flat textures and little depth or contrast to the world. I'm giving it points for a cool soundtrack, a couple decent dungeons here and there, and the final boss encounter.