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Originally Posted by The Dopefish
there should be a half-point deduction for each successive game (so, by the time San Andreas came out it should have had a full point deduction levied against it). This way, video game reviewers could be more responsible for recommending games.
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I used to be a reviewer. Games should
not have scores, even if the reader just wants to scroll past the review and see how high it's rated.
Too fucking bad. Do you know how many 10/10 reviews there are on GameFAQs? Just don't bother.
IGN gave Touch Detective a 5.5, God Hand a 3.0 and Jade Empire 9.9. Too bad God Hand is actually more entertaining than Jade Empire, and Touch Detective is a great puzzle solving game.
For this reason, I just use youtube. There's nothing else that interests me aside from actual video footage and/or gameplay footage. The video reviews at gamespot are pretty decent too, but then you get things like this:
"New highly detailed cutscenes in Valkyrie Profile: Lenneth are great, but then you're brought back to the outdated 2D world."
Apparently some people don't seem to know what the word
port means. Personally I think VP: Lenneth is a great alternative; in VP's situation, due to the limited availability to the PS1 version (which are prone to not working if they're scratched) and how much of a cult classic it's become. Of course it isn't perfect, since VP just doesn't work with some people.
You might as well not waste your time in taking reviews seriously, because it's just an oversized cluster of someone's opinion. Someone should judge games for themselves (I'd vote for demo discs, or piracy, but half of you would probably just resort to this and not actually purchase the game in the end.)
Jam it back in, in the dark.
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