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Well this was posted yesterday & was seen as fake, but today more posts from people who got the magazine all over the internet on different gaming forums seems to confirm this score.
anybody know what gameinformer gave Final fantasy XII?? i know it was pretty damn high.. if FF XII got a great score on gameinformer its not going to be very credible to me.
It's sad to see Mass Effect 2 score higher than FFXIII. Other gamers like me who would never play rpgs like Fallout 3 and Dragon Age are told everyday how much better they are than Tales of Vesperia or Demon's Souls. All these reviewers are getting so out of touch it's ridiculous.
It's sad to see Mass Effect 2 score higher than FFXIII. Other gamers like me who would never play rpgs like Fallout 3 and Dragon Age are told everyday how much better they are than Tales of Vesperia or Demon's Souls. All these reviewers are getting so out of touch it's ridiculous.
Well Mass Effect 2 is a great game deserving of high praise. It is a way different experience than jRPGs and it's not that they're "better" just..."different" and appeal to western gamers in general more so than traditionally japanese RPGs.
Most game review sites do recognize good jRPGs though so...I don't see the problem, lol.
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Well Mass Effect 2 is a great game deserving of high praise. It is a way different experience than jRPGs and it's not that they're "better" just..."different" and appeal to western gamers in general more so than traditionally japanese RPGs.
Most game review sites do recognize good jRPGs though so...I don't see the problem, lol.
It's sad to see Mass Effect 2 score higher than FFXIII. Other gamers like me who would never play rpgs like Fallout 3 and Dragon Age are told everyday how much better they are than Tales of Vesperia or Demon's Souls. All these reviewers are getting so out of touch it's ridiculous.
I agree with you for the most part. Ironically, I'm not all that interested in Western RPGs, yet I'm am willing to accept Final Fantasy XIII's adjustment to the Western trends albeit it still has lingering JRPG elements like it should.
It's sad to see Mass Effect 2 score higher than FFXIII. Other gamers like me who would never play rpgs like Fallout 3 and Dragon Age are told everyday how much better they are than Tales of Vesperia or Demon's Souls. All these reviewers are getting so out of touch it's ridiculous.
ME2 and Dragon Age are great RPGs and deserve the scores they get.
ME2 and Dragon Age are great RPGs and deserve the scores they get.
You and Squirrel Emperor fail to see my point. Regardless how great you think they are, they only cater to a specific audience while reviewers fail to acknowledge this when reviewing games.
It's not just with wrpg and jrpgs, but every genre. Ask yourself, when a reviewer scores a fighting game does he or she compare the game with a FPS? They must because there seams to have never been a perfect or close to perfect fighting game in their book.
Reviewers are so flawed and unconsistant with their own statements that their scores are useless to me. Metacritic is the only valid exception soley for its statistical outline.
So basically, what Rag is saying is "I disagree with this review, I disagree with most reviews. Therefore, that destroys their credibility and they're wrong and I'm right and fuck you all."
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So basically, what Rag is saying is "I disagree with this review, I disagree with all reviews. Therefore, that destroys their credibility and they're wrong and I'm right and fuck you all."
So basically, what Rag is saying is "I disagree with this review, I disagree with most reviews. Therefore, that destroys their credibility and they're wrong and I'm right and fuck you all."
Um...anger management much? Why do you keep attacking these publications? If this is' what they think, then so be it.
That won't stop you right from playing the game right?
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I'd agree no less, they should grade ff13 at a more leveled scaled... but perhaps something from the title really ticked them off, therefore they pretty much have their say.
I know~ It's not necessarily fair and justified to that extent; heck, it disgusts me too.
Lol =D To ease myself and feel that all is balanced, I just read a lot of low reasonably written (as in detailed reviews, by the individual or the reviewing staff) of western-rpgs such as the claimed ME2. A few can be found just from this page off of metacritic.
Maybe towards the future, when the final call could be graded by an entirely universally designed computer or machine of some sort, we'll get an even score to settle our stomachs.
I admire your proposal for a change in grading schemes, even in 1-sided-influenced countries and areas. As they say, it's fine to accept the fact or ignore, but do consider, "...people would never get their way if they just accepted their suppressing rulers."
You and Squirrel Emperor fail to see my point. Regardless how great you think they are, they only cater to a specific audience while reviewers fail to acknowledge this when reviewing games.
Mmmmmmmm... I don't think it's as bad as you're making it out to be. You just simply sound butt hurt that your favorite game isn't getting perfect scores. Perhaps FFXIII actually doesn't deserve to be in the plus 9's?
Usually the way it works is if one really likes a game, but the reviewer gives it a low score with good reasoning behind it, that person will cuss up a storm and get incredibly pissed off at the reviewer and automatically label the reviewer as bad. Very very bad. Horrible person. Evil! Going to hell? Yes you are!
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It's not just with wrpg and jrpgs, but every genre. Ask yourself, when a reviewer scores a fighting game does he or she compare the game with a FPS? They must because there seams to have never been a perfect or close to perfect fighting game in their book.
Usually... A fighting game being reviewed will be compared to other fighting games. Not something from a different genre. There are some things however that can be compared from a different genre. Like voice acting.
WRPGs and JRPGs will be compared to each other because they are in the end RPGs. I don't see what is personally wrong with this either. In fact, JRPG's might be compared with other JRPGs instead of WRPGs and still end up getting a low score. Same case with WRPG's. Keep in mind that past FF games did pretty well, scoring in the mid 90's.
Another thing to keep in mind is that reviewers put more weight on the gameplay then anything else. IGN is a example of this and one of the reasons why they don't average the score from all 5 of their categories(Presentation, graphics, sound, gameplay, and lasting appeal).
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Reviewers are so flawed and unconsistant with their own statements that their scores are useless to me. Metacritic is the only valid exception soley for its statistical outline.
But as long as your favorite game gets a very high score, then it's ok... Right?
But as long as your favorite game gets a very high score, then it's ok... Right?
XD Ah, this gives me an idea of rating games based on the alphabet: A, B, C, D, so on... only without the +'s and -'s.
Game get's an A? (means it's variably excellent)
Then it's up to you to bend it to A+ or A-.
Edit: Btw, thanks a bunch for the news update Darthdevidem01! I'll be waiting for my copy of GI's magazine to read on the missing 0.75 of FF13's score & figure out what's up.
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Gameinformer FFXIII Review - 9.25/10
