Is There Something Wrong With Me?

[Big Rick Cook]

Re: Is There Something Wrong With Me?

I'm chronically sarcastic these days.

[Red Dragon]

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If you have bad taste, do what Red Dragon does and ignore everyone else in order to cope with it.

Heck ya! Y'all make fun of me but I play games that I enjoy. Not because they are AAA classics super supreme awsome fun fun time 98.958% rated.

Just because somone else (even if they are a large magazine) doesn't enjoy a game that you do doesn't mean they have good tastes or that you have bad tastes. Just means that they are different.

Heck I like a lot of games that are around the 70% range.

My sister wants a Wii after playing Soul Calibur Legends. If that is any indication of people having strange tastes.

[162]

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Some of my favorite games were heavily panned by the critics (Virtual Hydlide), so I know how you feel. It just means that we're freaks, that's all.

People have different tastes? Video game magazines are quite possibly exceptionally biased to the large market games and the "quirky, indie" games? They get PAID to reward certain games with high score reviews?

But perhaps you just have a layman's taste and the social inadequacy you present can't fathom the cultural significance to the games they rant and rave about. And maybe their reviews are appealing to the lowest common denominator, and you happen to be a step or several steps above.

Perhaps our society is to blame. We are a failing society after all.

Nothing's wrong with you, it's just that your tastes aren't that refined.

Which can be a blessing, in ways. I'm way too picky and find faults in just about every game. It's because I look at games from a design standpoint and it's easy for me to say "that doesn't work" or "that's not right". I look at games as a cohesive experience and everything should work together--my main example will be Chrono Cross. A beautiful game in a lot of respects but it really falls apart at the seems under closer inspection and in it's execution. So by having refined tastes you'll just be taking the joy out of a lot games. This is why as people get older, they tend to enjoy videogames less and less. Have you ever gone back and played a game you once really liked and said to yourself "WTF was I thinking?"

So you happen to fall under the Lion Franco / Red Dragon camp. There's nothing wrong with that. You're just easier to please (I guess).

Having refined tastes also means you can respect and even enjoy the mess that is Chrono Cross' pacing. n__n

Oh...aren't you all sweet!

[Crimson Knight]

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When someone plays 100s of games a year, it's easy to bash a game that doesn't live up to their standards.

Just think of those reviewers as people who'll never survive in a society which relies on basic survival instincts. I do.

[Wavelength]

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I generally do agree with the critics, just as I generally agree with most people as to what makes a good game. I'll grant that I can't agree with the mass opinion on LoZ, Madden, or Halo, but the masses of critics and fans were right on about Final Fantasy, Civilization, GTA, and the like.

Sometimes, they miss entirely (giving Rogue Galaxy a higher rating than Dark Cloud 2, for example, or giving DDR SuperNova a higher rating than DDR Max 2). I learn to ignore such editors very quickly. It doesn't mean they suck, it just means that I personally have nothing to gain by reading their opinions.

Oh, and let's get over the illusion that 5 out of 10 (or 2.5 out of 5) is average. I have never seen any publication stay true to that. Sites like GamesRadar and NetJak get close, with the average falling somewhere in the low 6's, and GameSpot seemed to be getting a lot better with this (until I stopped visiting them due to the Kane and Lynch debacle), but in general, 7.0 to 7.5 seems to be the average for most review venues.

A game that gets a 5.0 is usually saddled with a review that complains ad infinitum and tells you to avoid it like the plague unless you're a hardcore genre fan.

[Big Rick Cook]

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That's because in most instances, a 5 out of 10 is generally a big fat ****ing fail.

Like a 50% on a test. It's a failing grade. 70-80% is average.

[Kire]

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Sometimes games get good reviews, but I tend to not like them when they're so "safe" it hurts. I tend to like games in the 80's range the most...games that are so different, they can't be given a 90's score so they can't recommend them to everyone. Just off the top of my head in my mind, Soul Reaver 2, Shadow of Destiny, Farenheit, the Phoenix Wright series, Quest for Glory 1, and even Lost Odyssey already are FREAKIN' CLASSICS in my mind, but that's not the popular consensus. The only acception to this I can think of is the God of War games, where my enjoyment exceeded the hype and my expectations.

[Crimson Knight]

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Our standards for gameplay are incredibly high nowadays.

Take Virtua Quest, which got a 5.7 from Gamespot. It wasn't a bad game, but it won't be GotY material. And yet, people avoid it like the plague, as if it was Irritating Stick(which got a much lower score).

[Red Dragon]

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I have no patience with IGN anymore. Especially what they did to the Godzilla Unleashed review.

http://search.ign.com/products?query=godzilla+unleashed

The PS2 version was crap. Wii version was buggy but really good.

Read the two reviews and you can easily see that they are copy-pasted from eachother.

I don't remember the Wii having 2 analog sticks do you?

[Toaster]

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You're just upset because nobody but you likes Godzilla Unleased.

[Red Dragon]

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I'm upset because ign reviewers are lazy good-for-nothings.

[Biggie]

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You're just upset because nobody but you likes Godzilla Unleased.

Hey now, I like Godzilla Unleashed too.

[Toaster]

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But that puts you in the same boat as Red Dragon.

Are you sure you wanna go there?

[Biggie]

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Doon't put in me in the boat with the stinky fanbooooyyyys.

[Red Dragon]

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Too bad Bigfoot, we're now just a couple of stinky sea men.