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Cappy 14,394 posts
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Registered 16 years agoandytheadequate wrote:
Since we've laid review scores to rest around here, let's deal with another hangover from the 'bad old days'.
But no one gives a shit about the majority of games released because there's so much rubbish out there. Would anyone expect EG to play every single game release on every platform for enough hours to be able to properly judge them? Is everyone waiting to see what EG have to say about Car Mechanic Simulator 2015 before they rush out to buy it?
Whereas an article on Destiny or feminism can probably be done fairly quickly as they are just opinion pieces or basic news stories. They don't require the writer to play a (probably shit) game for 10+ hours first.
Very few games that get a retail release are actually rubbish. Whilst Steam has made enormous advances in spreading objectively bad games to the public, for most of us the truly bad game is a rare beast. Hence games like Rise of the Robots and Driv3r living on in the gaming collective consciousness for decades. There's practically a cult based around ET on the Atari 2600 these days.
Lots of games I've encountered that would fall into the 4-7 range in the 1-10 marking scale have been very interesting and worth knowing about.
Dog's Life, average, janky, but you can throw poo into a baby carriage and fart on their mother and hassle a skunk and get sprayed and cock your leg on a postman or anybody...
Raw Danger, average, janky, but you can opt to steal a man's hat as he hangs from a precipice rather than save him.
We've reached a point where interesting but average games like this often get no coverage from the traditional games media at all. -
Everyone loves an review of an awful game. Reviewers love writing it, we love reading it.
I doubt the same can be said of the endless '5-7s' that are functional but unremarkable. -
Malek86 12,331 posts
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Registered 14 years agoJiveHound wrote:
Considering the number of Avoid badges lately (pretty much only that Godzilla game in the last 6 months), it doesn't look like they are finding many awful games either.
Everyone loves an review of an awful game. Reviewers love writing it, we love reading it.
I doubt the same can be said of the endless '5-7s' that are functional but unremarkable. -
True but if there is a truly woeful game I'd bet they'd certainly be reviewed. -
Trowel 24,512 posts
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Registered 18 years agoMrTomFTW wrote:
The 5 most Kojima moments in Metal Gear Solid 5!
Worth pointing out that EG (and Gamer Network) has apparently done record numbers in terms of unique page views over several months this year.
I guess what they're doing is working. Shame about the whole ad block thing really.
7 Arm Upgrades So Superior to Regular Human Arms It's Embarrassing!
Great site guys, congrats on the... page views. -
I haven't noticed too many list on EG articles to be fair, but RPS seem to be getting quite a few. I'm waiting for the top 10 top 10 list articles article so I know which to read. -
Kosmoz 8,184 posts
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Registered 14 years agoTrowel wrote:
Thought that this was a joke, then I saw the front page
MrTomFTW wrote:
The 5 most Kojima moments in Metal Gear Solid 5!
Worth pointing out that EG (and Gamer Network) has apparently done record numbers in terms of unique page views over several months this year.
I guess what they're doing is working. Shame about the whole ad block thing really.
7 Arm Upgrades So Superior to Regular Human Arms It's Embarrassing!
Great site guys, congrats on the... page views. -
HelloNo 2,283 posts
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Registered 13 years agoI saw the Kojima moments, it wasn't bad! -
Cappy 14,394 posts
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Registered 16 years agoIf only Perry Como was still alive. They could have got him to record Kojima Moments.
Kojima moments something something nanomachines... -
Kostabi 5,926 posts
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Registered 16 years agoJiveHound wrote:
Ever since Ellie left they don't seem to bother with the cannon fodder reviews, which is a real shame.
True but if there is a truly woeful game I'd bet they'd certainly be reviewed. -
Syrette 51,181 posts
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Registered 19 years agoThere's a new Cannon Fodder game?
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Listicles (urgh) are very popular all over the web. If I never saw another "8 things that are the most thing!" article it'd be awesome, but they've got to go with what drives traffic especially in the days of ad-block. -
richarddavies 8,312 posts
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Registered 13 years agoI could just imagine a retro game like the first sonic getting reviewed in todays style. Going in depth about the underlying message about animal cruelty at the hands of man (robotnik) and how it affects society as a whole.
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el_jefe wrote:
Well with that reductionist attitude we might as well burn it all to the ground and salt the Earth because God fuckin' forbid we apply a little thought and critical thinking to a billion dollar industry.
Duffking wrote:
They really aren't.
I always thought the reason you don't get as many pointless, boring bullet-point "this thing good, this thing bad, shoot the monsters, 7/10" reviews was because most games these days are slightly more complex these days.
They are still basically "shoot mans, race mans or punch/stab mans"
Graphics have gotten a bit better and leveling up/getting upgrades has been added to some games. Games journos shite on about stuff like feminism and storytelling to make themselves feel like the are real journalists and not just people writing about stupid fucking videogames.
Nope, let's just sit there and consume, consume, consume, spend, spend, spend and never think about their relationship with the outside world because they're "stupid fucking videogames". What a shitty, self-defeating attitude. -
Mola_Ram 26,196 posts
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Registered 9 years agoAgain, I think Moff's Law is very much applicable here. -
richarddavies wrote:
You joke but have this 2010 interview with Yuji Naka:
I could just imagine a retro game like the first sonic getting reviewed in todays style. Going in depth about the underlying message about animal cruelty at the hands of man (robotnik) and how it affects society as a whole.
RW: And why is Robotnik the only human in the Sonic World?
“Dr Robotnik is a slightly radical representation of all humanity and the impact humanity is having on nature. In 1991, it was a very sensitive subject to talk about the environment and while I had my viewpoint, I did not speak of it. With Sonic, I was given an opportunity to express my views in a different way and did so, showing Robotnik using pollution and creating machinery which desecrates the environment and it is down to Sonic to change his ways.”
RW: I must have been blinded by brilliant gameplay to have not really read that much into it but I see that now.
LJ: This was an early ecological message in games. I picked that up from the way Sonic collects cute animals at the end of the levels.
“Yes, one of the first ecological messages in a video game I believe.”
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richarddavies 8,312 posts
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Registered 13 years agoUrghh fuck my life. -
skuzzbag 5,950 posts
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Registered 17 years agoMola_Ram wrote:
There's no law described in that article though.
MrTomFTW wrote:
I don't know, I think Moff's Law anti-intellectualism applies to other mediums. Maybe not as much as gaming, though.
nickthegun wrote:
The "are games art?"conversation made hilarious when critical and academic thinking is applied like any other art form and you get these responses.
It does make me laugh that videogamers are one of the few (only?) consumers of media who get mad when they arent treated like morons.
Ah right read further down...
Hmmm.
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Mola_Ram 26,196 posts
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Registered 9 years agoIt can be if it's enforced!
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Ye olde summer drought. I'm struggling to even think of anything that EG could bother reviewing right now. Err...
...an expansion for The Talos Priniciple came out last Thursday? That's pretty good.
The 4th episode of Life is Strange is out next week and Everybody's Gone to the Rapture is out a couple of weeks after that. Then it's mostly just going to be quite a few 'remastered' reviews by the looks of things. -
skuzzbag 5,950 posts
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Registered 17 years agoMust admit I used to belong to the first camp and used to say "Just enjoy it for what it is".
However after watching some right crap (Pacific Rim & Transformers spring to mind) that I can't possibly back up that statement and have to justify why a film is so utterly mind-numbing shit that I have to switch it off.
Also I no longer believe that to be able to offer an opinion on a film you have to have watched all of it. Which is handy. -
Daryoon 5,912 posts
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Registered 20 years agoEG just seems to repost PR releases and shit they find on NeoGAF these days. USGamer, on the other hand, is rather more interesting? Or is that just me?
The whole "New Games Journalism" killed game reviews for me. No, you're not Hunter S Thompson, you're just making an idiot of yourself. Grow up. -
Mola_Ram 26,196 posts
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Registered 9 years agoPretentious? What? I thought they explained their reasoning behind it pretty satisfactorily.
If anything, I wish they would have committed to no scores or anything at all, and gone full RPS-style. -
I'm going to have to go with the 'I play games for fun and enjoy them for what they are' school of thought. I mean, I loved The New Order, but I never got this engaged with it:
It's not so much about what the game got wrong, it's more the 'A'-Level English Lit pseudo-pretentious wankathon about games as a medium that annoys me. -
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