Ah, it's been awhile but your (least) favorite Pig is back with another editorial about why the video game industry continues to disappoint in so many, many ways.
As many VGC forum-goers have been discussing with great exposition lately, there are many of us who feel as if the reviewing segment of our hobby has gone completely awry over the past few years. In my ever-so humble opinion, when it comes right down to it, I question whether it was any good from the outset. Many of us grew up with gaming but unfortunately, in many ways, gaming hasn't grown up with us. We're still the purchasers of hackneyed trash and in most cases, we do it with a smile. I had an opening rant prepared on the review system for this editorial but after lengthy consideration, I will defer to Rob Reiner and his mockumentary classic, This is Spinal Tap .
“As a reimagining of a classic 2D platformer, Rocket Knight remains one of my favourite modern examples of the genre so let's see why.” - A.J. Maciejewski from Video Chums.
GB: "We take a look at 15 amazing games that had the perfect length."
Pretty good list. Botany Manor would be the newest addition that encapsulates that title.
GL: "Staff writer Shaz reflects on his small library of physical games he's kept throughout the decades, and how a recent move made him nostalgic."
I lost my drive for collecting physical games due to many discs lacking the whole complete game. Instead, of collecting games I started collected figurines.
I am a collector have a room dedicated with a couple original arcade cabinets, physical game library, old and new consoles and controllers backlit with LED lighting. It’s very cool to have but with emulation being so strong and prevalent, I sometimes feel foolish because the hobby is expensive and like another said, the full game is not always on the disc. Could probably spend more wisely but I enjoy it.
Most games are usually on disc still. Of course you got you publishers that are hit and miss, Activision, ubisoft, ea, Microsoft, where the rest of the game needs downloaded.
cant forget halo 3
seem to get better than they deserve scores.
Look at for instance Gta 4 , FF12 and...yes Halo 3.Im not saying they suck but lets say they get 1 or 2 extra points.
Its not the case for all of them but some of them.
Then theres the fanboy reviewers.Look at Too Human for instance.Alot of non founded hate.It doesnt even look like criticism , just looks like plane dislike/hate for the dev or the game itself or whatever.
I think the GTA 4 was overscored, but still is an excellent game.
MGS 4 was another game that got overscored, no where near as good as the hype. Single player was pretty good, online sucks ballz.
One has to take caution when looking at scores on games.
(Claps) Well done 100% agree...
If IGN let two different people review lets say MGS4, do you think they'll come out the same? No, one might give it a 10, one might say its an 8. And there are a number of reasons why they'll see different. Game Reviews are all opinions, there not based on facts or anything, just one persons review. And, One guy might give out 10's a little easier than a some other guy, who's 7 is other people's 10's. Game Reviews will always be broken if this continues. And it's not an easy problem to solve either. Reviewing games is different than reviewing a car engine. A car engine has measurable statistics. Games do not. There's no meter that say's how fun the game is. And that is a problem that the Gaming Media needs to solve sometime in the near future, I'm really tired of not having a reliable source for game reviews.