I feel so bad for the company. They try so hard at making great games and actually succeed, at least for the games of theirs this gen I own (Banjo Kazooie N&B, and Viva Pinata) and from what I've heard Kameo is good too. The thing that kills me is that they make these games and they just get shut out by games where you chainsaw people in half or fight in a war. I guess the demographics for the Xbox 360 just aren't pulling in their favor. They really should release a new Perfect Dark, or Conker game to match the demographic and gain the company a bit of notoriety. View

"And learn from Movie Critics? Nobody listens to movie critics because their opinions vary too much so they're not relevant anymore. Garbage blog."

You clearly did not read my "garbage blog." I fully addressed this when I stated:

"One thing that is good about the game reviewers is that they are usually unanimous in their scores. This doesn’t happen with movie critics as they can range from a 9/10 all the way to a 1/10 per movie. If this happened to games it would really confuse someone interested in a game as to whether the game was actually good or not. With movies, it is not as big as a deal being that the cost of going to see a movie is only $7-10 USD where as a game costs $60 USD. With a usual unanimous score collection for a game it helps discern what games are good and which ones are bad."

The basic premise of the blog was to bring in to question whether or not game reviewers set their bar a little too low when reviewing games. If you noticed the title, it was "Could game critics learn A thing or TWO about movie critics, not "Game critics should learn EVERYTHING from movie critics."

And I do not take reviews that seriously except for aiding in my decision whether or not I should buy the game or if I should maybe do a little research before buying it. I was hoping to have the comments civil and free of personal attacks but I guess that was too much to hope for, especially from someone that obviously didn't read the blog. View

Yeah, I see your point. Most reviewers have good intentions with their score system however, some of the gaming community kind of ruins it and then turns it into a badge of honor or use it as ammo to go and declare war on another side. Anyways, I guess my idea wouldn't really help that situation much as they would just go to war with higher standards. Aaargh, I hate it when I start a rebuttal/argument and then forget where I'm going with it. Oh well. Anyways I was actually more for just scrapping the review system and instating more simple one (See reply to Jinxstar) but being that I knew the score system won't be going anywhere soon I thought I might as well just put my way forth in how, I would like to see it fixed. Many people have different variations in how they interpret a review score. Although they might be the same in a general sense, they can differ if you take a closer look.

By the way, I wasn't the one that disagreed with you. Please don't ban me, I saw what you did to Syko in the contributor forums ;)

Edit: Yes, I remembered where I was going with that. Some people use them as you say. Some use it for fanboy wars, while some use it as a basis for how good the game is rather than a recommendation. Although you may have your intentions, they aren't usually taken the way you would want them to. View

I agree that people need to read the review, however so many people are so fixated on that score. To tell you the truth, I think we should just get rid of the score and just have the reviewer say at the end "I highly recommend this title," "I recommend this title," "If you like this, this and this in a game but hate this, then the game might not be for you, etc." However being that the number system is obviously not going away, I thought it could use a change for the dimwits that don't take the time to read the review and just say "Ha, flop," "Ha best game on this console." Some reviewers do that at the end of their review (what I stated above) but as I said no one cares about the text, they just care about the score. The only time they might read the text is if they give their game a lower than expected score in which they will go in line by line and pick out all the lines that make the website lose their credibility.

Anyways, I've probably left quite a few holes in this rebuttal, but I'm too tired to go back and make sure I close as many as I can. View

I am just simply stating that games reviewers need to bring it down a notch, and give their review scores a little breathing room so that we actually have a sense of how good a game is. If game reviewers consistently hands out 10/10's and hit their ceiling then we don't have any sense of how good it actually is, unless gamers break the ceiling like PS3M did with Uncharted 2 which is remarkably unprofessional. Game reviewers, like I said, just need to raise their bar quite a bit. You can still hold games like Uncharted 2 or Halo 3 to the top of the pedigree but just knock them down a couple pegs so that we have some room to breathe here. Being that these games are arguably the best on the respective console, it is highly doubtful that many games will surpass them.

In regards to your last paragraph, as I've stated, I like what gametrailers does. They never give a game a perfect score, their scores seem to just actually make sense. A little too high, but at least they don't hand out 10/10's willie nillie. View

Ummmm... not quite. The joke is the fact that fanboys on here get so desperate to censor news that they don't like and get it failed. The truth is, this is a legit article. It's from a big name website, and although certain people may not like these kinds of articles it is no less completely legit. Truth is this article was posted 2 days ago. It stayed in the failed section until I brought it to the mods attention that a legit story had failed from multiple reports. They restored it because it was legit, but failed not once more, not twice, not even three times more but four times until now (and I'm sure it will fail again). Now you tell me. What seems to be the bigger joke on this website?

If you don't like an article, and this is what I really don't get, DON'T EVEN CLICK ON THE STORY. By clicking the story you raise it's heat. By leaving comments you raise it even more. By default a story is approved with 5 degrees where it will stay on the back burner of the site and not seen by many. Through click throughs and comments the heat raises and once it hits 50 degrees it then hits the main page. Once this happens, then it's precedence becomes more well known and will stay on there until the story gets pushed down by newly submitted stories that have reached 50+ degrees. And once it comes on the featured list, then it is guaranteed to stay on there as long as it does not fail, hits 24 hours old, or gets bumped off by higher degree stories. You see? You guys are always complaining about how this stuff ends up on the front page of the site, when YOU GUYS ARE THE REASON IT HAPPENS. So here's an idea (it sounds crazy, yes I know, so when you see a story with a flame bait title I'm sure there's a little ticker in your mind that says "hmmm.... I might not like this article" this is is where your next thought process should be "I'm gonna scroll down and see what else is on here" not click it leave a comment on "Is this a joke?!?! Why do we allow this stuff on here." It's common sense and yet most of this site seems to be lacking severely in it. View

After getting the past 2 games in the series, I will probably also get this one; however, I sort of wish that they would have studios like Lionhead and Bungie start makin some new unique games rather than just pumping Halos and Fables. View

"Downloading Full 360 Games From Dashboard (Probability: Extremely Low)"

A little slow on that one, eh? View

That was the funniest zombie survival guide I've ever read.

Especially liked:

"If you’ve played Left 4 Dead recently, you should know that zombies can’t open doors. It’s not so much that they lack the cognitive power to understand latch and hinge mechanisms - even dogs can figure that out - it’s just that they tend to favor more dramatic entries. In fact, as a general rule, if it would be scarier, or look cooler, that’s what a zombie will do."

and the bit about appropriate survival armor for female survivors. View

Yeah great idea but would never work. Achievement cheaters are already bad enough without any sort of monetary incentive to get them. I couldn't imagine how that would go up if you got free microsoft points for it. View

no the other one got approved (now in failed section) before this one was able to get approved (failed by users as duplicate, then restored by mod), so the one that was on the front page yesterday was actually a duplicate to this one. You can tell by the numbers in the url.

This story is: 355699 where as the other was: 355822 (smaller number = earlier submit) View

It definitely wasn't an "accidental leak" he stated this multiple times on Friday night also. View

I just got an e-mail from Microsoft because of the Windows 7 beta:

"You've been using Windows® 7 for a while now, and we hope you've been enjoying a simpler PC experience. Because you've been a loyal Windows customer, we're offering you the Windows 7 upgrade at a great introductory price* - only $49.99 for Home Premium or $99.99 for Professional. It's our way of saying thanks for trying it out. To take advantage of this deal, pre-order your copy while supplies last.

*Discount based on estimated retail prices of $119.99 and $199.99. Actual prices may vary."

Quite a great deal cheaper than what it normally would be. Here's the link:

http://www.microsoft.com/wi... View

I very much disagree with your stance.

I am strongly against a sequel and would most definitely want this just to be DLC but I would not mind paying like $20 - $30 for the new stuff. My biggest worry with this game is that it will split the community. Some will move on to the new one feeling that it's worth the money to move on, while some will stay with the first one because they don't want to move on or just won't move on yet. If they just waited a year or two then I'm sure the division of the community won't be anywhere near as bad but splitting up the community, just a year after the first game is way too soon. Valve said that they will find some way to address this but I just wonder what this will be. I guess we'll have to wait and see. So really, no matter which game you choose to go with L4D 1 or L4D 2 there will be less people (probably more so with L4D 1).

What kind of angers me is that eveyone brings up Madden and wonders why we don't get mad at that, but everyone KNOWS that a new Madden game comes out every year. I bought this game because I thought it was going to stick around for a while before a sequel came out. I was not expecting a sequel to come out a year later therefore yes I am fairly angry. I bought a game with hardly any content (yes I know they are going to keep "supporting Left 4 Dead 1"), and I stuck with it because it was fun and I was sure that there was going to be more content on the way. The survival pack was very welcome but it really only brought the game to where it at least should have been when the game first came out.

I joined the boycott, but I hardly consider myself a "whiner." I made a decision with my money ($110 being that I bought both the PC and Xbox 360) to buy a game that I thought was going to last at least two years before a sequel was announced. Of course, not before getting a crap load of DLC which I would not mind paying for but I do mind paying $60 for what still to me looks like a hunk of DLC to a game that still hasn't gotten the new matchmaking and the Xbox 360 version hasn't even been patched ever since the Survival pack released. There isn't really much of a reason to release a whole new game yet when there is still a lot of stuff that needs to be done with L4D 1. And along with judging how slow Valve usually develops games (with exception to L4D 2 taking only a year), I don't really see how they will be able to manage both games at the same time (especially on the DLC side) along with developing Half Life 2: Episode Three. View

I would hope it would feel like a sequal. It sure wouldn't take much being that the amount of content in L4D1 was absolutely appalling. View

or maybe they just didn't care because they were having fun. View

The Xbox Live vision camera doesn't have a microphone in it though. View

It is most likely nothing. IGN got the E3 schedule before the events occurred therefore when they were showing individual games they couldn't state the name of the unannounced game so they just put "unannounced" because it was at the time that they put it up. IGN did the same thing with Microsoft. Their conference was on Monday (where they announced FM3) and on Tuesday at 2:00 they have a Microsoft unannounced title:

http://www.kalleload.net/up...

Now if you go to IGN on Tuesday at 2:00 you will see that they have replaced this with Forza Motorsports 3:

http://video.ign.com/stream... http://cms001.slc1.qcn3.mov... View

That's usually how advancement is made. View

It's already full. View