Reviews Are Not Bibles

thereapersson - 393 days 3 hours ago

EDGE is the most pretentious gaming website / magazine around.

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Jinxstar - 393 days 2 hours ago

@ Thereaper

Didn't you have more bub's before. Have one on me.

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Jamie Foxx - 393 days 2 hours ago

you had a gizzillion bubbles before? ive lost a couple but who cares,here have some from me dude :)

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thereapersson - 393 days 2 hours ago

Unfortunately, I think I'm stuck at 5. No matter how many bubbles people give me, my count never goes up.

I'll never create another account, though. I like this name too much to lose it over a stupid comment limitation system. Thanks for your generosity though! Have some bubbles back on my behalf. :)

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Jinxstar - 393 days 2 hours ago

I'm the same way. I talk a lot of smack too but I wont create another account. Maybe peeps just like my Avatar =P

Edit: On topic I feel reviews are vital for many reasons. If I asked people on here what they thought about X,Y or Z exclusive title for a console it would be a sound YAY or NAY for the most part. Very little inbetween... Some people who live in the BFI (Bum FVK Idaho) for example may not have the luxury of going to a buddies house and trying it out... For example Viking got horrible reviews but I enjoyed it for some reason... Not sure why but I liked it. I also liked Lair... Most hated that game as well... Reviews are a catch 22 in that reviewers get to play the game for free. Basically I feel review sites should make scores as 55/65 dollars... As in how much they think it's worth. So if a game like LBP or Fable comes out and the reviewers thinks it's worth 85/65$ then they can be justified and not having given it a "Perfect" because I know so many people hate perfect scores... They could be saying the game gives you more then you hoped for and would even be worth paying more for... Still though money is different for everyone as well. Depending on the job/s you have 65$ could be a lot or a little... So I like that system honestly...

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WANNA GET HIGH - 393 days 1 hour ago

Tell that to fanboys.........

I just played the new need for speed and its not as bad as reviews bashed it.Yes midnight club LA is better but u still have fun with need for speed, i will give the game a 7.5/10 not the 3/10 it got from most websites.Same gose to haze,too human,lair....e.t.c

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Kriller - 393 days ago

Funny, then, that a huge portions of industry professionals read and subscribe to Edge. They aren't there to serve the typical gamer: i.e, all you kids here who are held in complete contempt by the industry itself.

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Jinxstar - 392 days 23 hours ago

@ Kriller

STFU...

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Kriller - 392 days 23 hours ago

Great rebuttal, and thanks for reinforcing my point.

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Jenzo - 392 days 21 hours ago

Ownage lol!

They are crying because Edge didn't like Resistance 2. They just reinforce what the writer of the article said lol!

"Yes, there are people out there who base every buying decision within gaming solely on reviews that others have written. Rather than using reviews and secondhand opinions to get a feel for what they're getting into, these morons believe that someone else's thoughts about a certain title must be commandments."

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baum - 392 days 18 hours ago

"Funny, then, that a huge portions of industry professionals read and subscribe to Edge. They aren't there to serve the typical gamer: i.e, all you kids here who are held in complete contempt by the industry itself. "

Huge? lol. Yeah, you must think developers make the bulk of the money for Edge even after their games get unfairly slammed. "Typical Video gamers" be damned, because after all, Edge is a magazine that could sustain itself if they wanted with only 5000 sales a month (at best?) from developers that want to see their games be criticized by a bunch of journalists (at best) that are not even remotely related with game development (because if they were, they wouldn't have a job typing for edge and instead would be typing code).

"Edge" writting for a few industry professionals and not the bulk of their readers is the biggest joke I've ever heard, you're funny man, keep up the good work. Even if that's true, then that is more of a problem than something they should be proud off to them as they can't even be taken seriously anymore. By being outliers on most reviews the only message they are sending out there is that they are not very reliable.

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Timesplitter14 - 392 days 23 hours ago

Oh boy how I would love to start a religious debate here... but I'm kinda tired now. I'm just out of 2 big debates.

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thereapersson - 393 days 3 hours ago

Reported as offensive. There is no need for comments of that nature here.

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Steven Colbert - 393 days 2 hours ago

I agree with Reaperson on this one

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dem0n - 393 days 2 hours ago

Religion is a touchy subject. Just something you don't bag on. There are a lot of people on N4G every day.

Reported as well.

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KnaveX - 393 days 2 hours ago

= as ^

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SolidSnake93 - 393 days 1 hour ago

Agreed, calling any religion worthless just shows your own conceit and the fact that you are unable to accept anyone different from yourself. Everyone should be entitled to their own religion without scrutiny.

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Kratos Spartan - 393 days 1 hour ago

everyone should be entitled to their own religion, beliefs, opinion. So tell me then, why are you and everyone else attacking him for his? That's the problem with christians, no respect for someone else's beliefs. Nobody said you had to like it. It just shows the fact that YOU cannot accept anyone different from yourself.

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SolidSnake93 - 393 days ago

Interesting thought Kratos, I have friends of many different faiths and I respect them all. I agree that he is entitled to his own opinion, but to say that the bible is worthless seems inflammatory. I did not attack him, I simply stated that he should be more tolerant of other faiths. I respect your beliefs and those of everyone else; however, I expect that same of others, in fact there was no necessity for any comments concerning religion here which is why as the reaper stated, he should not have posted a comment of that nature.

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KnaveX - 393 days ago

umm okay.. so since im a christian, im gonna say, yeah reviews are worthless, just like all of u atheists, im gonna scrutinize you all, just for being atheists. And u should all respect my opinion, even though I just said yours is worthless.

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Son of Odin - 392 days 23 hours ago

in my xp people who feel the need to put down other people's belief's are more ignorant than even religious fanatics themselves.

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Mr Fancy Pants - 392 days 21 hours ago

@Son of Odin: "in my xp people who feel the need to put down other people's belief's are more ignorant than even religious fanatics themselves."

in my xp you don't have much xp if you think that way. In life there are only 2 simple rules. You take it or you don't take it to then assume the responsibility of that action. There's no more to it and this is called decisions.

When you don't like something you need to put some thinking into it about why you didn't like that something. When you express it bad or good this are your beliefs and there's no other way to show it.

Example: I don't like the X360 because is a piece of crap that doesn't have the games I want nor the reliability a product should had.

That's my thinking but other people could read it and say that I'm lying because the x360 has games and accused me of being a fanboy. Here's where he's downplaying my beliefs with his beliefs but that doesn't make his beliefs more or less valid than mine because everybody is different and put things the way they think them.

We're both putting down our beliefs with one opinion against the other because neither of us are Gods so we both are ignorant no matter what.

But I think your point is that everybody should know how to behave/respect maybe?

BTW the comment got deleted at the end... This is sad, simply sad.
There's no respect for other opinions, religion always wins because people feels scare of it.

If I say that the Bibles is simply a collection of fantasy stories, my comment would be deleted too? You can learn from this kind of stories too. Maybe that's the way God try to teach us the way we should live or how things are because we wouldn't understand the real explanation. There are things like "infinity" that we never would understand even if God himself tried to explain it to us; meaning that we can't take anything literally just because is in the Bibble because nothing is proved, everything are just beliefs.

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ChampIDC - 392 days 22 hours ago

Bibles of fun and cuteness maybe?

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thereapersson - 393 days 3 hours ago

Only fanboys take reviews to heart. Most sensible people only use reviews as a general guideline, and actually try things for themselves before they make a final decision. You can only weigh the words of someone's OPINION so much before you have to interject with your own sensible decision making.

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ChampIDC - 392 days 22 hours ago

Though it does slightly annoy me when a good game gets a much lower score than the average, I generally don't care about scores too much. I read the text and get an idea what a game is about. Some of my favorite games have been iffy on scores, such as Army of Two.

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thereapersson - 393 days 2 hours ago

There's always the option to rent games. Most people I know have a Blockbuster or similar outlet nearby. Heck, back in the days of the PSone, or to an extent, the PS2, I didn't have much money at all to buy games because I was living at home, jobless. I had to rent most of my games, and buy magazines with demo discs to see which titles I really thought were worth purchasing.

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dem0n - 393 days 2 hours ago

If you can afford $25 a month, Gamefly will let you rent 2 games at a time(more if you pay more). Whenever you're bored with them, just send them back and choose 2 more.

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Steven Colbert - 393 days 1 hour ago

Your right about that.Betas and demos have really helped in considering a purchase.

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Karum - 392 days 23 hours ago

"Take Socom for example on the PS3... it got bad reviews but many of you PS3 fans love it... but look at the sales... the game sold poorly..."

You realise the game hasn't even been released in Europe yet right?

Also, how are review scores in any way related to how many copies a game sells? Most reviews are out there prior to release or VERY early in a game's life at retail.

Where do you pull this stuff from?

Rhetorical question btw, I already know the answer.

Conclusion, reviews are virtually worthless.

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Karum - 392 days 21 hours ago

lol what?

The problems that people (review sites) had with the game (socom) and why it scored poorly was because of the network problems it suffered, along with some of the promised features not being implemented at release.

Have you even read any of the reviews? Most of them had positive things to say about the actual gameplay when the servers weren't running like crap. Those have apparently been fixed now and some sites even re-reviewed the game and gave it a better score.

I'm not a socom fan btw, I've never played any of the games and frankly don't plan to but your logic on this is flawed. Not wrong, just flawed. It cannot be applied in every case. Reviews are just 1 man's opinion and nothing more, even if 100 review sites agree that is still only 100 opinions from a potential of millions.

Edge rate Resistance 2 as a 6/10 but you bet your ass there will be a few million people that disagree.

Here's another example, people would have you believe LBP has sold like crap yet it received rave reviews and scores across the board.

I have a good feeling that the sales of Resistance 2 will debunk that 6/10 score it got from one site too by the way.

Sorry but your point about sales justifying review scores is flawed.

Sales figures of a game and review scores will have some correlation at times (Halo/Gears will score well and sell better) but there are others, like the example of Edge/R2 and the review scores of LBP vs it's alleged poor sales performance just go to prove that reviews are not gospel.

Note I'm not saying LBP didn't deserve it's rave reviews, in this man's opinion it did but hopefully others will see I'm just trying to get a point across. I think it's done well for a new IP/genre so far.

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asyouburn - 392 days 20 hours ago

so by your logic, sales directly correlate to scores? think of your favorite cd in the whole world. now i'm willing to bet that Hannah Montana's last cd sold way more than your current favorite (unless your fav is Hanna Montana) does that make it a better cd? by your logic it does.

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baum - 392 days 14 hours ago

By Bladestar's logic, Britney Spears music must be better than Mozart, Bach and Beethoven combined. Also, the opinion of Carson Daly and other self-appointed "music experts" is or should be more important for your purchasing decisions than your own opinion. And of course, those opinions are unquestionable facts of life.

Logic is useless when dealing with Bladestar. Don't waste your time with her.

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