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Totally Not Corrupt Professional Objective Gaming Journalism DRAMA
- Thread starter fizzelopeguss
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I'm pleased by this last page.
Different link, same post: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/6.392683-No-Pressure-Guys-Its-Just-Halo#15853791
Menckenstein
Lunacy of Caen: Todd Reaver
Retards don't know that though.The word "retarded" is ableist.
Vendigroth
Educated
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Recent? It's shit.
Older? It's shit, unless it involves rat diplomacy.
Fuckin' yeah ! Thanks Vendigroth !
This a typical codex stereotype. That the Codex hates every game ever made is a myth. Plenty of people here like the Goldbox games, the Infinity Engine games, Troika's catalog, and let's not even got started on strategy or adventure games. Even recently you saw a lot of fapping to Dark Souls. The poster Skyway that helps perpetuate this stereotype approves of games like ArmA and Dark Messiah of Might and Magic. Heck there's a few posters that like nearly universally despised games like DA2.
Let's not forget the terrible sin of voting DA for best RPG of 2009 over KotC.
Clockwork Knight
Arcane
Brayko
Self-Ejected
There is also a wide gap between "flawed thing I will complain about to intelligent like-minded people" and "thing I hated and stopped playing immediately."
Dragon Age 2 was a deeply flawed game I bitch about a lot but I finished it and played through half of it over again on a harder difficulty mode. I certainly understand why Skyrim is a lesser RPG and game than Morrowind was but I still put 200 hours into it. Where the line between Codex refined opinion and attempt to incline ends and pure hate for worthless bullshit begins varies from one poster to another.
Meanwhile, on Twitter:
Brayko
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Machocruz
Arcane
Ebert is bored with superhero movies. That means he shouldn't review them, because then movies like The Dark Knight and Spiderman 2 would get a low score. he gave them 4 stars
Because he's totally biased against the genre, amirite?
Because he's totally biased against the genre, amirite?
Numeric grading scales are a complex issue. A game isn't quite the same as a scholastic test with 100 straightforward wrong-or-right questions, wherein the student's grade directly reflects how many questions they answered correctly. In principle, games are much more often graded on a Bell curve: The top 10% receive As, the next 20% receive Bs, and the remaining 70% receive Cs... unless they're especially bad, in which case they receive Ds or even Fs. Popamole gaming "journalism" does adhere to this system, at least superficially.
I'm not defending commercial game reviewers, though. When you look at their review score histories, it's obvious that far more than 10% of AAA titles are receiving 4.5/9/90/90% or more (equivalent to an A on a Bell curve), and that far, far more than 20% are receiving scores of 4/8/80/80% or more (equivalent to a B on a Bell curve). The vast majority score As or Bs, with only a few scoring Cs and a tiny number scoring Ds or Fs (reserved for complete disasters).
It's obvious that they're skewing the scores, it's obvious why they're skewing scores, and personally I believe it's already come back to bite them in the ass. They're crowding reviews scores into the high end, but their readers are adjusting to compensate, although they (readers and "journalists" both) may not realize it. According to some research I've read about lately (which you ought to consider hearsay since I can't find it at the moment), games scoring in the 90%+ range sell 3x as many copies as games scoring in the 80%+ range. Games that score less than 80% will be flops.
The overabundance of 90% and 80% scores floating around make it blatantly obvious that they're biased and that they're skewing review scores toward the high end. Even the average Joe is beginning to take notice, and in addition, any game that scores below a 9+ is treated as average.
I'm not defending commercial game reviewers, though. When you look at their review score histories, it's obvious that far more than 10% of AAA titles are receiving 4.5/9/90/90% or more (equivalent to an A on a Bell curve), and that far, far more than 20% are receiving scores of 4/8/80/80% or more (equivalent to a B on a Bell curve). The vast majority score As or Bs, with only a few scoring Cs and a tiny number scoring Ds or Fs (reserved for complete disasters).
It's obvious that they're skewing the scores, it's obvious why they're skewing scores, and personally I believe it's already come back to bite them in the ass. They're crowding reviews scores into the high end, but their readers are adjusting to compensate, although they (readers and "journalists" both) may not realize it. According to some research I've read about lately (which you ought to consider hearsay since I can't find it at the moment), games scoring in the 90%+ range sell 3x as many copies as games scoring in the 80%+ range. Games that score less than 80% will be flops.
The overabundance of 90% and 80% scores floating around make it blatantly obvious that they're biased and that they're skewing review scores toward the high end. Even the average Joe is beginning to take notice, and in addition, any game that scores below a 9+ is treated as average.
Average Manatee
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I like how the game "deserves" an 80. Meanwhile when games like DA2 deserve a 2/10 and get a 10/10 it's the reviewer's opinion and you just have to respect that. Trying to browbeat them into altering their score would be compromising their journalistic integrity or something.
How good are the Halos just for reference? I've only played the PC release of the original and IMO is was a pretty decent game. For all of the shit regenerating health/shield mechanics get it was one game that actually used it well.
How good are the Halos just for reference? I've only played the PC release of the original and IMO is was a pretty decent game. For all of the shit regenerating health/shield mechanics get it was one game that actually used it well.
Machocruz
Arcane
Wow. George Brotard may be a brotard, but that EGMNow Halo review is an abomination. Complaining that it doesn't have the "advances" of modern shooters...like linear maps, scripted events, iron sights (on sci fi space guns, lmao).
Can some one tell me what is so advanced about modern FPS? I don't know. The level and encounter design in Black Mesa, a remake of an old game, seems like it was made by a super intelligent, advanced alien race compared to CoDpiece.
Can some one tell me what is so advanced about modern FPS? I don't know. The level and encounter design in Black Mesa, a remake of an old game, seems like it was made by a super intelligent, advanced alien race compared to CoDpiece.
Halo 4 got 7.0 (BAD score) because it's not awesome popamole enough?
Average Manatee
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It didn't offer enough emotional engagement.
Are all twitter discussions the online equivalent of a cripple fight?
Are all twitter discussions the online equivalent of a cripple fight?
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