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So what do you think about the whole retro review thing going on now? =x
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I don't like it. I hate how a lot of them pretend to accurately 'reevaluate' classic games by current standards, wherein the best score that an excellent classic can get is 8 or 9. Like if every classic game that was considered great is now only as good as your above average PS2 game. I think it diminishes the older games to compare them to big-budget 3D titles. Games should be judged by the standards of their particular era and by what they're able to achieve with what they've got. In that sense an older game can be better than a modern one and vice versa. But that's not how these retro reviewers do it. Instead they enjoy mentioning 'dated' elements and so forth, and even when they have nothing but positive things to say, a retro game likely won't get a 9 or higher. So except in cases where one bias supercedes another (like with Castlevania Symphony of Night, which managed to get an impressive 9.5 in IGN's Xbox 360 virtual console review; but of course it would, seeing as how many people nowadays were reared on the PS1), many older games get judged unfairly.
Jam it back in, in the dark.
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