Huh? We have a few posters that aren't full of "hate" (if "hate" = results of critical thought when viewing the world with open eyes), aries comes to mind. There are probably some others.J_C said:If you don't, you won't last long on the site.
Of course my whole post was an exaggeration. The comment was set up to lure the newfag to the darkside. But I failed, he is not staying. Or wait...this might be a victory.Shannow said:Huh? We have a few posters that aren't full of "hate" (if "hate" = results of critical thought when viewing the world with open eyes), aries comes to mind. There are probably some others.J_C said:If you don't, you won't last long on the site.
ExEverest said:Xor said:What exactly would be a "fair assessment of the game", according to you? Surely you have some method for determining whether or not you should purchase a game. Does it involve playing the demo, or reading reviews? I can't think of very many other ways one could come up with any sort of objective determination other than torrenting the game on release and giving it a full playthrough before deciding to buy it or not.
The only way I think one can have a fair assessment of the game is to play it through to completion.
it's called wisdom, a result of intelligence and experienceExEverest said:bias
The only way I think one can have a fair assessment of the game is to play it through to completion.
The only thing this kind of bias provides is complacency at the expense of objectivity and knowledge. i.e. short term benefit vs. long term. I would much rather have the latter.
That was pretty funny, I'll admit. Inaccurate, but...
I'm sure we may have an idea as to what trends might be in place, but you're equating an opinion of a single reviewer with an aggreggate of hundreds. You'll have to forgive me if I don't trust some guy on the internet on sociological assessments encompassing thousands of individuals.
kris said:I respect your opinion on the matter, but what you said only applies if you want a fair and complete assessment of the game. Otherwise you should be able to determine the worth of a game after playing for just a short while. Unless it is VERY complex. This ain't it. A short playthrough should be enough to know the game mechanics and overall quality.
As for judging when to buy. Well I consider people that buy games uninformed to be morons. Last time I was a moron must have been Empire: Total war.
GarfunkeL said:Hey idiot, how about you go back to sucking Laidlaw's cock?
Bullshit. Interviews with the devs, previews and demo give you an accurate enough picture of the game so you can make a rational decision vis-a-vis purchasing or not. The claim that "you have to play the game completely before you can judge it" is just the knee-jerk defence reaction of butthurt fanboys, who after they've bought their bowl of shit and ate it, have to justify spending $60 and several hours on aforementioned shit.
The only thing this kind of bias provides is complacency at the expense of objectivity and knowledge. i.e. short term benefit vs. long term. I would much rather have the latter.
Hello, I am a pretentious faggot with very little idea what I'm talking about. I don't know why I even came to this site, probably in a vain attempt to feel smug and superior but since I obviously failed, I'll scurry away with my tail between my legs.
Why do you lie? Blackadder aptly described your idiot spiel.
Have you been living under a rock for the last five years? AAA-releases from big boys routinely get 90+ scores, most likely 95+. It's a travesty and an exercise in dishonesty since obviously they cannot all be "once in a lifetime, best of the decade"-games. The fact that such a title gets 87%, even in a German magazine, is already quite telling. In any case, when was the last time that a big name title got crap reviews on launch?
Considering that large majority of people on this site already consider Origins to be a piece of shit game, everything points to DA2 being even worse in every aspect. If, by some miracle, this isn't the case, then DA2 will be extensively debated here, have no fear. But our collective experience with AAA-games and especially Bioware, coupled with what we know of the game so far, clearly indicates that it might somewhat enjoyable action game but it has no business entering the esteemed RPG-club of prestigious games.
ExEverest said:kris said:I respect your opinion on the matter, but what you said only applies if you want a fair and complete assessment of the game. Otherwise you should be able to determine the worth of a game after playing for just a short while. Unless it is VERY complex. This ain't it. A short playthrough should be enough to know the game mechanics and overall quality.
As for judging when to buy. Well I consider people that buy games uninformed to be morons. Last time I was a moron must have been Empire: Total war.
A 'game' is a completed/whole product. If you want to assess a completed/whole product, I think one has to complete it, wholly. You can approximate what the rest of the game will be like...but one can't know for sure. At least I don't think so. Enemy groupings can change later on in the game, types of enemies, the story will come to a crescendo, new gameplay mechanics might be introduced, at the very least one would have to adjust their strategy-within the last 2/3 and 1/3 of the game a lot can happen that might change your mind about the game on the whole.
Frankly, homophobia seems accepted social behaviour on the Codex, which makes me wonder if there are some deep-lying sexual insecurities present in many of the most frequent advocates of this so-very-mature and intelligent attitude.ExEverest said:Ooh, name calling and homophobia, aren't you mature and incisive with your criticism.
ExEverest said:Secondly, the people who make the big bucks can afford higher development budgets, higher development budgets=better people + more time + better managment=better quality. It's natural to expect most of the AAA titles to be quite good. And I don't think that a game that gets 90+ has to automatically be a 'once in a lifetime, best of decade' game; it could just be quite good. Depends how you percieve the grading scale, I suppose.
Gord said:Frankly, homophobia seems accepted social behaviour on the Codex, which makes me wonder if there are some deep-lying sexual insecurities present in many of the most frequent advocates of this so-very-mature and intelligent attitude.
I do have to apologize for not realizing that Origins' wasn't to everyone's liking here-I assumed that what with everyone complaining about it's difficulty and strategy it'd be right up everyone's alley...
Admiral jimbob said:[...] Eventually, and quite by accident, you stumble across a strange, unwashed corner of the internet where the men are men, the women are also men and the children are only in oldmanpaco's pictures. Everyone there agrees with you, and are just as sad and confused as you as to why nobody else does.
When you start posting there, do you think you might just be a little bit bitter?
Chateaubryan said:Good God, stop that, it makes me want to throw the Codex a dime.
ExEverest is already aware of the grounds he's treading - and his reprobation of codexian "homophobia" is probably just a feint : the Codex' omniphobia is pretty much obvious. What he doesn't know is that he's a troll with a twisted and perverted sense of righteousness which compels him to bathe in the same mud as ours just to show us how clean he is - and soon was. It's only a matter of years and regular posting before he lets the nine-year-old bile-tempered codexian dialectics contaminate him and becomes the next Skyway. This kind of rigorous objectivity never ends well.
"Battle not with codexers, lest ye become a codexer, and if you gaze into the cesspool, the cesspool gazes also into you."
http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/drago ... ic-reviews 88 88 86 86 86 85 80 80 80 80 80 80 70 seems like all are from the month of release. Want some harsher scores, take a look at the console sections. Not good enough? All right:GarfunkeL said:Have you been living under a rock for the last five years? AAA-releases from big boys routinely get 90+ scores, most likely 95+. It's a travesty and an exercise in dishonesty since obviously they cannot all be "once in a lifetime, best of the decade"-games. The fact that such a title gets 87%, even in a German magazine, is already quite telling. In any case, when was the last time that a big name title got crap reviews on launch?
ExEverest said:What grounds might these be? Not hallowed, surely.
I was also not aware that GarfunkeL is actually an all-encompassing manifestation of the Codex.
ExEverest said:GarfunkeL said:Hey idiot, how about you go back to sucking Laidlaw's cock?
Ooh, name calling and homophobia, aren't you mature and incisive with your criticism.
Gord said:I wouldn't be too surprised to find them secretly enjoying trannie porn themselves...
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Chateaubryan said:That's where you got it wrong from the beginning. Garfunkel's evocation of Mr Laidlaw's appendicle is not homophobic. He simply implied - in a typical codexian sacrilegious way - that you were biased. Wheter he is homophobic or not is another question and his problem. What I am enclined to think is that you love to playfully nitpick insignificant aspects of others' post just to get that trolling rolling.
Gord said:Frankly, homophobia seems accepted social behaviour on the Codex, which makes me wonder if there are some deep-lying sexual insecurities present in many of the most frequent advocates of this so-very-mature and intelligent attitude.
I wouldn't be too surprised to find them secretly enjoying trannie porn themselves...
Admiral jimbob said:It's kind of hard to tell what the general consensus on DA1 was here. It won game of the year, beating fucking Risen and Knights of the Chalice, but almost every discussion of it has been and is fairly negative. If there is a consensus, I think it's that the game had decent potential, but ended up being a poor man's BG2-lite for the WoW generation, which is how I feel about it.
ExEverest said:@Kris: I think you're contradicting yourself; first you say that in order to judge whether the game (if you don't specify which portion of the said 'game', I'm assuming that you mean the game in it's entirety) is good or not, you need to play through a bit of it. Then you say that in order to be able to judge the whole experience, you need play through all of it.
VentilatorOfDoom said:- final rating is 87%. "Although the fans' fears have partially come true, this is still a magnificent RPG"
Why is it a magnificent RPG?
kris said:For a review or to judge something as unimportant as the story you need to play through the whole game. To judge if it is good or bad you just need to play it enough to see most of the mechanics. That was what I tried to say. And before you say that the story is important... Well if the story really is important in a game, then it is a bad game by default.
I will play the game nonetheless and it will end up as number 2 in the "Best RPG of 2011" list, beaten by TW2's "old-school" gameplay and sex-scenes. For the record, I'll probably play Final Fantasy XIII this summer AND ENJOY IT, because I'm a whore and I do everything for the lulz anyway
Jaesun said:roladka said:
Bioware: We put the A button into RPG's.
ExEverest said:You are correct on the account of me posting only on matters of DA2, but then again, that is the major RPG release of the month.