Is there any game that sea doesn't like mildly but with many passive agressive dislikes about? He's certainly much more objective than most any other reviewer out there and much more articulate in his complaints but all of his reviews read the same "yeah, but..."
It's like he doesn't like games and only likes to fantasize about what his ideal game would play like, and he often disses games because they don't conform to his vision, like the time he dissed Avernum because it was cruel to attack Slitzerikai peasants.
I'm a chronic nitpicker. Usually the games complain about the most are also ones that I like the most (unless of course I outright say it sucks). Some people take that to mean I am an overly negative person... maybe that's true, I just think that, when doing critical analysis of something, nobody is served if I overlook or ignore things for the sake of maintaining a positive tone. The point of reviews is to be read by the end user so that they can decide more easily if a game is for them, and they can only do that if I provide as much detail on both the ups and downs as possible.
For what it's worth, I
do think XCOM is a good game. It's just not really made for the old X-COM fans. That's kind of a problem considering it's, you know, a sequel that's based on the legacy of one of the best-remembered PC games of all time. Though, to be honest, I kind of think 2K and Firaxis took advantage of the fact that X-COM is one of those games many people have heard of, but very few have actually played... they have expectations about the series that cannot possibly be let down because they cannot reference the original directly. What do you mean, is it good? Of course it is, it's *XCOM*!
