One might say we have more disconcering tastes? Others might say we’re just idiots who don’t understand how a scale from 1 to 100 should work…
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Posted by Shawn Handyside on January 16, 2011 · 3:37 AM
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My favorite game is Tales of Symphonia. It's a near perfect game in my opinion but there are some aspects of the plot and gameplay that were lacking. I am forced to give it a modest 112 out of 100.
Really? Does seeing a score of 7.2 and thinking "I guess that's a decent game" expel me from the "gamer" category?
Meh, I almost never agree with the review scores, seems more of a score of how hyped a game is, not how good it was, I've played plenty of magnificent games that were cast aside as 60s, and some crappy ones that still get 80s, in all honesty you should decide for yourself via demos or "Alternate methods" of testing a game
(also fun fact Firefox thinks meh is supposed to be meg)
The first Super Mario Galaxy didn't do so shabby either, whatever country this comes from…
EDIT: Still haven't mastered whatever kind of Font-omancing is required on Halolz…Bloody brackets and arrow brackets.
gamers aren't the only bad ones either. Notice how the 75 is an "Awesome", where as our awesome scores are in the 90s. We overstuff our ratings, they understuff their ratings.
…However, commenting on who might be compensationg and who isn't is a bad idea.
Whereas I don't agree that the scores are about how hyped the games were, I do agree that it's not based on the game per say. It seems more to be based on which games are advertised more, not by fans but by companies.
It's not based on whoever pays more, but it does influence a game's review score…Nevertheless, gamers nowadays are too jaded and internet-savvy to just hail any SINGLE review as truth.
I stopped reading Nintendo Power for this reason. They gave Shadow the Hedgehog a 9/10.
I shall have you know that in Norway, everything gets a dice roll of 5+, /rage (thats 5/6 btw)
Oh, and I second what Zabrio is sayin' too.
You know I have a problem when I interpret scores like a gamer…
WHEN GOING TO THE MOVIES
Mine would have to be Star Ocean: Till The End of Time. with SO4 and SO2 closely behind.
I hate giving scores, so Ill just say, If you like JRPGs, traveling through terrain BOTH of past and future style in the same game, a real time action gameplay, some of the best music you will hear, and/or a sense of wonder. Then I would highly recommend testing out these overlooked games. (though SO4 is slightly generic, but it makes fun of itself for being so too)
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These scores are genuine right?
Just asking.
A game getting a score of 3 or less is almost impossible.
besides a 4 in itself is rare.
oh and if a variable like presentation is much higher then all of the other variables, the final outcome has math thrown out the window and the score is much higher then it actually is.
(IE: gameplay 7.1 presentation 9.3 graphics 7.8 = 9.0)
:O
Never have the words "Guilty Pleasure" sprung to mind than games and movies that are bad. Hell I'd watch The Green Hornet again, because its got a car that detaches its door to SHOOT PEOPLE. The camp value of it is EXTREME, although if Seth Rogen is trying to become infamous as the guy you want to punch in the nuts in every movie, he's doing a good job of it.
Street Fighter Movie Zangief: Nintendo Power….is a bad mag? QUICK! CHANGE THE SUBSCRIPTION!
seeing how games are taking over the entertainment industry, i think we should replace the movie critics with our game reviewers.
Ahem if i may share my favorite.
Final Fantasy 6. 10 outta 10 ain't enough
Why? I'm in it.
…Also the characters were simply AMAZING! no-ones left out of the development!
ahhh…chocobos
that awesome is pretty much an 80…that's still a really good score no matter how you cut it.
I love how 70 is average in the gaming community. Such high standards.
The final score is never an average of all of the previous scores, it's a score in and of itself that demonstrates how fun and enjoyable the overall experience of the game is. The previous scores have influence but aren't supposed to be tallied up for a final score.
Gametrailers also gave it a good review.
and it was a pretty good game for what it was. *runs*
hmm… I see your point, if previous score were taken into effect, then Minecraft would have a horrible score. (since people complain about graphics >_>)
"For what it was" may be important here.
Being the best turd does not make it not a turd.
I think it's worth noting that the movie industry is far more prone to producing massive turds that rake in bundles of cash anyways, so the standards there have to be lower.
They do? I always thought there was a certain charm to them.
I sort of agree. It's easier to play and find out for yourself instead of just assuming a game is bad simply because some gaming website says so (although in cases like Naughty Bear, I'd rather take their word for it). It'd be a hell of a lot easier if developers took the time to make a demo or trial since the alternate methods of testing out a game take a while.
Pff. This submission is so-so. It's only 4.46 / 5.00
Truer words have never been said.
I thought it was better than the average 3D Sonic game, but it's not hard to improve on garbage.
I cut it in half. Now I have two 40s.
You have a cake to share.
You get a 80% piece then cut it in half…you still have a giant piece of cake!
Show Your Working Out.
Scores don't get to me, if its bad according to reveiw i rent or trail it myself to see if I as a person enjoy it, which is why i still own crackdown 2 or new vegas, etc. despite a lot of the low scores and negative comments i hear.
still, i think the one thing that frustrates me is how could people see ilomilo and raskulls as BAD GAMES >:C
If I honestly have to go with numbers I convert it to a grade scale 100-90=A 90-80 B etc. anything below 70 basically a D I get a little iffy on so I look around I lot more Though I tend to read through the entire review no matter the score and then compare it to other reviews and some customer reviews to get the gist to see if it was over-hyped, if I would like the gameplay, etc. but, that's just me.
As long we're sharing guilty pleasures my guilty pleasure, as a game, was Raw Danger. A little known game from Japan that essentially was "Nature will F you up: the video game". Corny lines and bad controls were the tip of the iceburg but something about it was oddly loveable.
Exactly why I'm not a movie person.
Yeah, I don't think my body will ever be ready.
9/10? No wonder why it was on the teetering on the mediocre side.
It's a bad idea to introduce the ''cake'' as an example.
Only if you like Reeeaaally bad jokes.
Personally, I say it's because we know that a review score of at least 75 comes with the website advertising package. It's in the contract.
well…you introduced it here, so it's up to you.
<inserttrollfacehere>
One of my favourite games is Dragon Age: Origins. It's made by Bioware so you automatically know it's good.
If you like old-fashioned generic fantasy RPGs, dark style, interesting and greatly written characters, morally ambiguous choices, good voice acting, difficult gameplay, tactical combat, slaying dragons and having sex then I highly recommend this game for you.
If you had trouble beating "Super Press Space to Win Action RPG", then you should probably stay away from it.
You kids today and your reviews. Back in MY day, you didn't have magazines or the internet to read reviews with. You just prayed your game didn't make your eyes bleed, or brain explode, or ears rupture. And even then, you STILL played it, because back then, we were all hardcore.
I don't care how you guys vote this picture. If I don't like it. ITS SHIT.
Movies = $20-$25
Game $40-$60
If I'm paying $60 for a game it better damn be good, and seeing out DLC is going I'd only be getting 80% of the main game too. a good $15-$20 to get the last 20%
Wait, the Green Hornet sucked? and Green Lantern is pretty much doomed already…. the Marvel fanboy inside me wants to troll now…
Wow and I thought that was impossible… I never care about ratings anyways and look where I am today… I actually bought that game and enjoyed it somewhat.
Well I'm still here so I guess it doesn't expel you.
I stopped doing that. Tv guide says 2/5 stars and it ends up being a good movie. BULLSHIT!
Well the average game is played longer than a movie is watched so naturally playing a bad game is worse than watching a bad movie. Playing a good game is better than a good movie. That's how I think it works anyways.
I second this! Anything finer and the same people might complain about major lag. Dial up internet users make me lol.
top 3 games all ps3 and bottom 2 are arcade. (redundant joke about ps3 having no games) (laughing)
also games are rated 0-100? I thought it was on a scale of 3d-sonic game to 99.
"E.T. the game came out today, and the resulting carnage lasted for at least 5 hours. Oh, this just in…"
Thank God for ratings systems…
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Much less around here. Matinee is about $8-$10 bucks 'round here. I can waste an afternoon experimenting. And games are $40-$70 bucks, if you count tax.
And lets not forget such wonderful five dollar DLC such as horse armor.
I actually thought the Green Hornet was quite humorous, although there were parts where the acting seemed a little stiff :/
Horse armor….no no no waste your money better. spend $5 on the unlock everything that is already in the game DLC (i.e. Skate 1 & 2) these help you play your $60 game less.
(And when I meant moves I meant DVD's also and for tickets you will be getting snacks as well which would get to around $20 just to see one movie)
gonna point out ME2 was all over the damn place
Why is Dead Space 2 listed as "Good" instead of "AWESOMENESS WRAPPED IN BACON AND DEEPFRIED IN SEXINESS"?
Um game reviews officially use a 7-9 scale, where 7 is below average 8 is average 9 is above average. It's sort of like school grades (if your region uses percentile marking). The rest of the scale is reserved for the terrible games and the perfect games. The confusion this causes is why one guy gave Deus Ex a 3/10- this was back when they were deciding whether to use the 7-9 scale or the 1-10 scale, and this guy thought Deus Ex was a bit below average (didn't like the AI and found immersion lacking) so he gave it a 3. With todays scale he would have given it a 7.
movies uses 1-10 where 5 is average.
talking on halolz requires master class talkamancy
Yeah, I mean, it's ok, but it's definitely not a 4.47/5.00 quality pic.
And You Liked It That Way! D:<
I think it also has to do with dropping 9 bucks for a movie that might be bad vs dropping $60 for a game that might be bad. Guilty pleasures of watching something and playing something are probably different too.
Is it odd that i dont understand this a little bit? *Looks at submission again* Ohhhhh, i see what you did there.
To me anything above 90 is a great game (unless it's critic trash) and anything above 80 is mostly good. There's a couple below that I enjoy and a couple above that I hate but at least we have classy scores.
Or does this mean that games are better than movies in general?
So, it's an official nintendo magazine and the reviwer uses "Nintendo factor" and "Wii Effect" as a reason to give a good review…
Nice way to keep your job man.
Punamancy is the key to comment in Halolz.
Xbox 360 -- $200
A Kinect system with Dance Central -- Another $200
Halo Reach -- $50
A year of Xbox Live -- $40
Another Controller -- $20
Knowing that games like Ijji, Cave Story, Hero Core, Knytt Stories, and La Mulana are not only all unique, great games, they're free? Priceless.
There are somethings money can't develop. For everyone else, its Indie gaming.
DO you like it?
ah yes,but punamancy is one of the many sub branches of talkamancy
just as trollamancy is
I swear, most review publishers really only use a four point scale. Making it out of ten is completely arbitrary.
In Brazil we pay the triple. And I'm not exagerating.
yeah i agree with you, i actually enjoyed shadow the hedgehog, although it was harder than adminium. (yes minecraft reference) Something funny was it actually led to a debate between me and a cousin about how come the ultimate lifeform would need a gun and a motorcycle. We agreed in the end that that is what makes shadow the ultimate lifeform, the fact he has the ability to use a gun while sonic can't.
what about Gameinformer reviews, they have a 3 or 4 rating on like 3 games every month, also they seem to have some sick satisfaction in hating on console sonic games, i played sonic colors wii and played a demo on the ds, the wii one was better by a long shot, and they said the game was horrible on the wii, plus they said one of my favorite games ever (Avalon Code) was bad, but games like cod and halo get immediate 10's (before i get flamed i love those games too) they just seem so biased toward only the "cool" games that non-gamers like, and biased against, say, monster hunter tri
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Oh, Cro High.
OH SHIT OH SHIT I DIDN'T WANT THIS TO BE THE SECOND HIGHEST COMMENT NOW PEOPLE ARE YELLING AT ME.
I liked the Sonic Adventure series… :(
Well, sure. Imagine if Minecaft got an "official" review before it moved into the mainstream gaming media. Gamers found it and rejoiced. If it was reviewed I imagine it would go something like this (keeping in mind that they may have other hyped up games to review later as well):
The graphic quality is horrible with no way to turn it up. Player models, in particular, are boring with expressionless faces. The lack of a tutorial makes it impossible for new players. Gameplay is bland with combat only consisting of simple up and down swinging animations. The lack of a clear objective leaves players feeling lost. This is compounded by the horrid physics, which becomes abundantly clear when dealing with water and jumping. While there may be more to this game, it is not immediately clear.
6.5/10
(May only experience of the game is the media and one Let's Play from before the Beta, so this may be off.)
EDIT: Actually, the above "review" would also work for Dwarf Fortress, which I've actually played. Take what you wish from that.
I know, I'm saying Nintendo Power sucks because the review done by one guy apparently liked it. :P I'm a generalizing bastard.
I wish I had my magazines with me, but if you read the reviews, pretty much all of their scores are above 6, and most of them are above 8. That's why I dislike their reviews.
THEN STOP YELLING BACK! IT JUST PERPETUATES AN ENDLESS CIRCLE OF YELLING!
Oops, I didn't read this far down and basically repeated in a previous post what you just said.
Sorry, Ataeru!
"…CARD GAMES ON MOTORCYCLES!"
(You were asking for that one.)
Correction:
A year of Xbox Live: $60 (officially)
EDIT: You forgot Dwarf Fortress.
CAPS LOCK!!! BLAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGH!!
Officially on Amazon.com, its less. So why pay full price when I can get it discounted?
I have all the magazines from about 2006 -- end of 2009 if you want me to look up anything I have it all indexed by date. This was back in my days of only owning nintendo consoles and well pretty much being a fanboy. Not very proud of that…
Now, try showing this or any actual review to a fangirl/fanboy. And brace yourself for rage of the Brooklyn variety.
I liked the chao gardens it was like ummm……. kinda like what was it?… well it was an interactive virtual pet thing and years ago (about 4) I loved it. Pointless minigames were king in my mind.
Not immediately clear? I was playing the classic minecraft for the first time and I immediately went to work on building a fort then testing the water physics and made a submarine which flooded about 3 times :( Twas the most fun I've had. So truly open and immersive. the physics and graphics almost give me a sort of nostalgic feeling of old blocky games. So much to do with so little time. Have to get the real thing (beta not classic) after I get TF2 in about a few weeks.
I look at videos and decide for myself. :) mostly depends on the genre. Some genres I have high standards for but if it's an RTS game I know I'll love it no matter what. Other such things as who developed it make a slight difference. Random 3rd party developers are always good. something new usually. I'm not picky about my games though… I'll buy it if it doesn't suck.
Same here. I'd really like a different scoring system. I can't read the gaming scores anymore because they're all crap unless they aren't crap. And I don't remember the last time I saw a score below 73 which strikes me as a reasonably solid score.
I know right. I played that game just to collect animals to upgrade my chao. Don't give your chao an animal without legs! You will lose your legs forever!
Don't use animals at all :P I don't want a gorilla armed chao. I just farmed the purple green yellow tubes to up their stats. know how many times I played through the first level with tails? alot! then I had to do it again for all the races for the devil chao. stopped halfway through. gamecube memory card crashed. HOW MANY HOURS WASTED!!!!
We go on a grading scale that you might see in school. Anything below a 70 might as well have fresh feces on it. The movie buffs go on a scale that has no meaning because just about everything has to do with word of mouth.
that's how nostalgifags think.
Pretty sure the word you're looking for is "discerning," Shawn. "Disconcering" isn't even a word.
I only give my chaos unicorns. The rest of the animals are worthless. I train only purebread chaos.
favorite game: any Mechassault (there all good to me)
there is no real plot but what's more fun then piloting a giant robot built for war?
Personally, I rate games as a dollar amount worth paying for it. Its hard to justify a score, but easy to justify a price.
I meant my "review" as if the reviewer did not know anything about Minecraft and was seeing it for the first time.
On the same note of the Tales games, I loved me some Tales of the Abyss. Truly the best in the series for me. Very well could be the best game ever so it has to get a 9.
However, Tales of Legendia was terrible, battles were choppy and everything wonderful about the Tales series was ruined there. Totally an 8.
<_<
Also, a Tales game for the PS3? D: DO WANT
EDIT: they're*
Another controller for $20 that works? …. Do want?
I use my Gameinformer for the previews and pretty much everything but the reviews. I tend to trust people on the forums over at gamefaqs or the people here.
Most of the time I play a game if it looks interesting to me anyway.
Except Shadow the Hedgehog. >>
Or at least it was when I wrote that… lol :/
You guys are forgetting ET…
(the "game")
nyeh!
top 3 games:
1) OoT
2)Mario 64
3) pokemon
4) ???
5) profit?
Bonus points for some awesome games.
Also, don't forget hydorah and Spelunky, as long as you don't mind dying every three minutes.
Why do I have a feeling that this is why Black Ops is so overrated?
I DON'T KNOW WHAT WE'RE YELLING ABOUT, BUT I"LL CONTRIBUTE TO THIS!!!
I'd guess most of the negative reviews for Fallout New Vegas are because "it uses the same buggy engine as FO3". People in general just can't appreciate how much effort goes into a AAA release.
People in general also hate games simply because the game in question doesn't appeal to them directly. I'll never understand game reviewers. :/
This Brooklyn accent makes it hard to concentrate on video game reviews!
What a coincidence!
The top three are Nintendo! Who would have guessed?
….
I lost (again). That's the second time Halolz has made me lose in two days.
*generic erfworld magic refrence*
4.46 -- Shit/Junk
4.47 -- AWE-SOME!
Tested by the Aperture Science Enrichment Center of Reviews, approved by Science.
Wait… what?
I don't think this review system is compatible with shitty games such as Superman 64 (N64), Robocop (Xbox), or epic games such as TLoZ: OoT (N64).
Thoughts?
That's why I rate my own games to knock the overall average down a couple pegs…
I'm so alone…
Tales of Symphonia is Epic Win.
Also it can be funny. With Scot Menville as Lloyd and Tara Strong voicing Presea…it can be funny. Very funny. Especially the YouTube videos. Also there was an AR code that unlocked a little hidden bit of voicing(not accessible without cheating) for Lloyd that sometimes would play at the beginning of a battle.
Also another code for Presea. Sometimes, just sometimes, when she and Lloyd were in the battle and she was in P2 battle spot and Lloyd in P1? ^_^
Also with Kuwashima Houko voicing Presea in Japanese…kinda scary that that same voice actress voiced, in the same time period, someone who is going through the pain of having to watch her brother die, repeatedly, only to come back and try to kill her. Again. Repeatedly.
And Orikasa Ai voicing Genis when just the year before she was voicing an effeminate gay(originally intended to be female, but the author didn't like the idea of Inuyasha fighting a (formerly) human(now undead) woman(apparently demon women are okay, and even little demon girls the height of his knees, just a bit taller than the little kitsune kit with them) whose idea of "affection" is to kill the person. And in the case of 'Yasha himself, cut off the ears.
Yeah, major character flip in Japanese, and very similar character parts in English.
Huh. I'd stop reading Nintendo Power too. Everywhere else gave that game a 3/10.
I didn't even know that score existed.
now I got more material to investigate thanks to you…
after I finish cave story owo