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So, everyone is saying this game sucks.
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Everyone.....Oh really? I would say it's mixed (mostly positive) and based on people's opinion's who haven't even played the damn thing. The reviews are based on a 360 version and I just think that people are overacting to the early press slightly. Comments like this don't help... so nice input to the discussion..
http://www.metacritic.com/game/xbox-360/brink/critic-reviews
Dunno how people can say the game sucks.
OK, there's a leaked XBox version that's been out a few days, most magazines have reviewed it & it's 7 or 8 out of 10 so it's hardly garbage.
Plus it's just been unlocked in North America today too so give it time. I've not played it, but any fixes/tweaks are only a patch away if they need too.
OK, there's a leaked XBox version that's been out a few days, most magazines have reviewed it & it's 7 or 8 out of 10 so it's hardly garbage.
Plus it's just been unlocked in North America today too so give it time. I've not played it, but any fixes/tweaks are only a patch away if they need too.
I am sitting on the fence with this one before i buy, to me it looks really average. Once the novelty of the weapon upgrades and diffrent classes wares off is the gameplay going hold up and keep people intrested.
Its ok people saying a game is good or bad after a day or so play but is it keep people intrested for weeks or months.
Its ok people saying a game is good or bad after a day or so play but is it keep people intrested for weeks or months.
More reviews live...
http://www.metacritic.com/game/xbox-360/brink/critic-reviews?dist=positive
I'm struggling to see how the gaming industry has become so elitist? I mean 70+ surely is a good game - not excellent, but a good game - not a flop?
It's also frustrating that the COD mix can be churned out each year and get raving reviews, when it's not trying anything new?
I'm not trying to defend a game I haven't played yet, but it seems like this is worth playing to come to a conclusion - Marmite.
http://www.metacritic.com/game/xbox-360/brink/critic-reviews?dist=positive
I'm struggling to see how the gaming industry has become so elitist? I mean 70+ surely is a good game - not excellent, but a good game - not a flop?
It's also frustrating that the COD mix can be churned out each year and get raving reviews, when it's not trying anything new?
I'm not trying to defend a game I haven't played yet, but it seems like this is worth playing to come to a conclusion - Marmite.
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I would disguise that swear word fully or you will be taking a break.
Please feel free to open another thread with whatever you want to talk about but please stop spamming this thread. It is making you no friends. I can list you plenty of FPS games you may like and not heard of, but not in this thread.
It has become more apparent. When people bash recent games such as Shogun 2, Portal 2, Dead Space 2 etc. to name but a few of the good ones this year so far, it makes you wonder what the hell a game has to do these days to be deemed 'a good game'.
Ten years ago, or even five years ago, average games were largely accepted as not great but able to provide a good amount of enjoyment and fun factor and thus worth getting. Now, if a game has one flaw, or one design choice that someone doesn't like, they deem it enough to **** the game off and tell people not to buy it.
It's just ridiculous how people think they have some sort of entitlement when it comes to gaming.
I can understand that and I can also reason with people having less disposable incomes.... but we are all gamers and want to play games. At this rate, we'll settle for a COD per Xmas with DLC throughout the year to keep us going until the next one. Maybe through in another Need for speed game to keep things "fresh".
The thing is 70+ from paid reviewers who maybe do not keep their job if they do not give high reviews is bad news in the real world it means they are being as kind as possible to avoid losing the advertising spend from the publisher which is pretty much their only source of income nowadays! I personally think most paid reviewers are guilty of inflating review scores to suit commercial considerations.....
Did you read reviews to purchase Mega drive games or SNES games? I personally used to buy Gamesmaster magazine and just read up on games - who cared about scores or what someone else thinks - if a game looked good, I would purchase it and enjoy it for what it was. I enjoyed games which others/reviewers probably slated. I just think that we read up too much on stuff before buying and trying ourselves. Even if they are slightly inflated, the standard of game these days has to almost be perfection or it doesn't warrant a purchase unless it's <£10
Because its hard to know what scale reviewers actually work to sometimes.
Some games they work on a scale of 70-100, others, 0-100. Honestly by 7-8 they could be saying its a good-great game, not approaching perfection but still worth playing, but they could equally be saying its a steaming pile of **** and it should be avoided at all costs.
spore got 98% to 100% before release.
the editor of game spot got fired after he gave kane and lynch a bad review because they were paying for massive adverts on the site.
another excellent example of how inaccurate most reviews are.
for years now ~70-75% has been the "well we have to give a high score because the publisher will stop giving us previews and we'll go bust but we need to warn people the game is crap so it gets a low 70's score.
the publishers marketing team is happy and savy people are warned off, although over the years it's been going up and up and is now more 80-85%.
think of the 0-100 scale as in reality a out of thirty scale starting at 70.
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750%? Impressive ;p
Ninja!
Its hard to know what to believe though.
Bethesda wouldn't exactly be having trouble leaning on reviewers if they wanted to.
"Let me just check if we have you on the list for our Skyrim previews, oh I can't seem to find you, I'll just make a quick call to make sure and then I'll have a look at your review while they get back to me". /cough
Bethesda wouldn't exactly be having trouble leaning on reviewers if they wanted to.
"Let me just check if we have you on the list for our Skyrim previews, oh I can't seem to find you, I'll just make a quick call to make sure and then I'll have a look at your review while they get back to me". /cough
