Ninjarefinery writes: I’ve read a massive amount of reviews in my time. So many gaming sites provide such in-depth reviews and quality content that I’ve truly been able to decide on a purchase based on a balanced view of what all these people are telling me. However, I’m certainly guilty of checking review scores and writing-off some potential gems, because it’s quick and easy to do. Is that fair though? I feel like scores are actually screwing people over.
Phantom Knight provides his thoughts on the futility of Console Wars.
Humans are competitive by nature, in life there’s winner and losers.
Console wars don’t hurt the industry.
it will never die. It's not much of a war when Sony has won 3/4 of it's gens in historic fashion.
Nintendo atari sega were all once in the dedicated home console race, them 3 are the og's and none of them make home consoles anymore, Sony and microsoft killed them all and nintendo's case they ran off to their handheld market because they could not keep up with the big 2 in the dedicated home console business. Ill continue to support the big 2 as long as i can.
Gaming desktops are usually either big and heavy full-size beasts, or else miniaturized boxes that lack the power to impress. And whether you buy a complete system or an empty chassis to fill with components, they're often on the fugly side.
Deville Louw put together a list of 10 memorable and sometimes very difficult video game boss encounters. Do you remember these?
Most of the games listed span more than two decades. Why even add that in the title?
There's a lot more bosses that were memorable than just this list. Tough to narrow it down to just 10.
Are you okay? The most of them are from games that were released over 20 years ago.
That first boss fight in God of War was totally Legendary. I felt like it was a last boss fight.
Truly one of the best boss fights I ever played in a game.
Psycho Mantis fight also was Legendary.
Scores are a nice takeaway or a good way to know if a game is good without having to read 2000+ word reviews
Review scores are great. What's the difference if a site trashes a game and another trashes it and leaves a 5 or below? The game is still trash according to both websites.
I don't listen to reviewers anyway. The best ways to judge a game is to watch a video on Youtube or take a risk and go in blind. I personally think most games that are rated highly are overrated by reviewers anyway.
Well tell that to Metacritics.
I kind of enjoy how ACG rates the games, explaining all the bad and good sides and says, does game worth buying, renting or just ignore it.
Or Famitsū, with 4 different people rating the game and those individual score combined is the result score. There's a higher chance this score will be more accurate, because different people might like or hate different things. And their perfect 40/40 scored games never disappoint.
I completely don't trust IGN and alike, because they praise one games for being true to their original formula and not too innovative and then bash others, because "they're too similar to the previous game" or "too much water" or some other stupid excuse.
So my problem is not scores, it's the big companies who rate game on how much people pay them, not if the game is good or not.