Obviously as a Nintendo fan I frequent the Wii U section more so than the others and comment on related articles more often. To put the headline into context, here is my observation;
EDGE put out a review of an upcoming Wii U exclusive called Lego City Undercover. It was one of the earliest reviews, and they granted the game a 5/10 score. This particular article generated some sizable buzz (not massive, obviously but big enough to be considered significant).
Almost every comment consisted of something along the lines of, "Well, I expected this," or "Damn, I was looking forward to this game," or other such comments. Game Informer had recently given the game an 8.5 and I pointed this out, only to be met with higher disagree ratio and a reply suggesting that Gamestop (owners of Game Informer) wanted to give the game a higher score to forward used physical game sales.
I would have appreciated just about any other reply over a baseless conspiracy theory.
Since then a ton of reviews have been accepted onto N4G's Wii U section and almost all of them have been mixed to positive. Most of them are receiving 7/10 scores and I have seen a couple of 9/10s and at least one perfect score.
None of these articles have received any buzz.
This echoes the treatment I saw ZombiU receive. Many people said they did not care for it because of its "bad reception." Well if one had gone to Metacritic at the time, they would have seen it was receiving nothing that could be considered negative reception. The game consistently held a 70+ score on Metacritic with mostly mixed to positive reviews. Positive ZombiU articles and review would generally get little buzz and very few comments if any.
I'm not necessarily saying Nintendo has it the worst, but pretending all of the criticism in Nintendo related articles is honest criticism just does not cut it with me. There are people who want negative news for Nintendo, who seemingly enjoy negative news. And that is a damn shame because it fogs out the aforementioned honest criticism which I am actually interested in reading as oppose to the former.
I do not expect people to agree, but this community as a whole is in need of improvement. This post just cites one of the reasons.
The friendly folks over at Razer recently sent us their full size Kishi Ultra mobile gaming controller, and this thing didn't disappoint.
VGChartz's Mark Nielsen: "Upon finally finishing Devil May Cry 5 recently - after it spent several years on my “I’ll play that soon” list - I considered giving it a fittingly-named Late Look article. However, considering that this was indeed the final piece I was missing in the DMC puzzle, I decided to instead take this opportunity to take a look back at the entirety of this genre-defining series and rank the entries. What also made this a particularly tempting notion was that while most high-profile series have developed fairly evenly over time, with a few bumps on the road, the history of Devil May Cry has, at least in my eyes, been an absolute roller coaster, with everything from total disasters to action game gold."
Me leaving it out should be telling of my thoughts on it. Better than 2 as a DMC game.
Still a good game though.
3,1,4,5 to me, never played 2. 5 gameplay is amazing but level design was really disappointing to me, just a bunch of plain arenas, the story felt like a worse written rehash of the 3rd and the charater models looked weird ( specially the ladies ). Another problem with 5 was that there was not enough content for 3 charaters so I could never really familiarize with any of them
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Dmc.
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God DMC2 was an awful game.
And in case this isn't obvious it goes worst to best
Order changes depending on your focus. I tend to focus on gameplay/fun factor, so...
5, 3, 1, 4, 2.
I really didn't like 4 but commend Dante's weapon diversity. The retreading of old ground was pretty unacceptable to me.
But even then... Still more enjoyable than 2 for me
TSA go hands on with the beta for Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road, but how is the game transitioning to the post-stylus era?
That doesn't only happen to the Wii U section. Not even close. Highly deviant reviews usually get a lot of degrees.
Nintendo get a lot of unjustifiable hate these says.
I wish I knew why (maybe someone will explain it to me) honestly all I can seem to make of it is that they aren't Sony or MS, and that's reason enough for some people to hate them and anything they publish/develop... smh.
Articles regarding Wii U games getting negative review scores are just going to be more popular than the positive ones, because people are petty and enjoy seeing anything they dislike fail even if the evidence is totally non factual and/or completely biased.
Most of the wii hate comes from gamers disliking Nintendo for having an under-powered system. And then there's the:
"This game is good..FOR A WII GAME."
I always hear that. It's like they don't consider the wii (or Nintendo) a viable console. They don't consider wii games as "real" games.
Does Nintendo get EXTRA hate? Hard to say. I think there are still a lot of Nintendo lovers out there who still hold a sacred candle to Miyamoto. Sure, they might not have a Nintendo system, but Nintendo was a part of their childhood and is something they can't let go that easily. Nostalgia is probably Nintendo's strongest marketing tool. They are old school, but people enjoy their old school (with a new twist) approach...for the most part.
Nintendo's audience are gamers. Not just the labeled hardcore or Casual, but everyone. Nintendo has the brands, characters, and exclusive content to sell their system. People groan about old IPs, but it's really their old Ips that sell the system for the most part. That new Mario Kart, Zelda, or Smash bros game will help the Wii-u fly off shelves. I'm sure 3ds sales will increase the moment pokemon X/Y is released too.
Going to n4g for good Nintendo/MS news is a bad idea.
But this is not something restricted to n4g,for some reason lots of people seem to have big problems when discussing anything Nintendo.Rational discussion is almost impossible.
In the case of Lego game,people seem to forget what is the target audience of Lego games,Edge history with Lego reviews and why is Edge taking down sequel scores.
WiiU not so good situation doesn't help either.Lego City will sell millions on the WiiU in the long run,millions more when it gets ported to other platforms(yes it will get ported).It will easily outsell Uncharted but the game is not system seller.
Welcome to N4SonyG. This kind of thing is to be expected. Even positive articles about Microsoft where people post positive things are met with 50 some disagrees. This site has an abomination of a community.