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What with Uncharted 2 and MW2 those are strong words. #assassinscreedbloodlines
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Imagine someone watching these graphics and thinking it was the console version: "Ugh! That looks TERRIBLE! No way I'm getting that game when it comes out!" #assassinscreedbloodlines
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No i cant imagine anyone would want to play a psp game with psp graphics on a TV with a DS3 controller... looks at PSPGO specs...*facepalm #assassinscreedbloodlines
11/09/09
This is why i think all games systems should require a demo of all published games to be released at the latest 1 week before the title releases. Because i can tell what i will like with about 5 minutes of demo time. I dont need a game review score to know if the game is my cup of tea or not.
Didnt this happen with Batman too? Was there even a need to ask for high scores on that game? #assassinscreedii
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Perhaps its just a feeling I have, but if publishers are going to strong arm reviewers for good reviews... I say let the people become the reviewers. A required Demo before the release date would allow us to decide if said game is crap....
Be that as it may... I am still super ready for AC2. #assassinscreedii
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If this turns out to be true, it will just be another reason why I don't buy Ubisoft games...new. #assassinscreedii
11/09/09
Every single company out there bends rules and screws people over. Welcome to the great Capitalist society we live in.
Seriously, a stand over something justified is one thing, but because they wanted a good review score? Please.
Sony bullied Crystal Dynamics into not publishing Soul Reaver 2 on Dreamcast because it looked and played better than the PS2 version.
Microsoft sues then buys out companies every year.
Nintendo? Well, I haven't followed Nintendo since my NES days, but I'm sure they've engaged in shady practices as well. #assassinscreedii
11/08/09
1) Not accept the offer, and thus not review the game BUT when the review was supposed to be on the site or in the publication put in its place a page that basically says "We were supposed to review but we didn't because we didn't receive a copy to review because "
You'd pretty much devoting the space you were going to use for the review to telling the public how much the developer/publisher fails at being ethical.
2) Accept, but just in order to get your hands on the review copy. When you review the game, review it how you always would, and give it the score it DESERVES and make it a point to stress though out your review that the developer tried to force a good review JUST SO YOU COULD GET A REVIEW COPY AT ALL.. They didn't buy you in the end, you basically conned them into letting you do your job right.
Either way I wouldn't expect to ever get a copy of the game at all after doing either of these things. But I do think making them look like huge fools for trying to buy your love with something they should be providing any way should be the most important thing.
So can you you shed some insight on this for me, Owen, cause while I know it happens (I believe I remember GameSpy having a bribing thing happen a couple years back) it still blows my mind that it happens. #assassinscreedii
11/08/09
It's becoming more and more obvious how professional reviews are purchased and therefore useless.
"Metascores" are becoming obsolete.
Seriously, I purchased Tekken 6 (a game that has received a 80 Metascore) and was horrified by how unpolished and utterly terrible it was (especially since I just picked up Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection off of the PSN and found it a far better game for 1/3 the price).
I miss the days of PC Accelerator Magazine (now extinct because they weren't in anyone's pockets). I miss the "Golden Crackpipe Award" given to developers that made a game so shitty that they must've been smoking crack during the development.
When was the last time we saw a big-publisher-backed/highly marketed game receive a Metascore below 60? I mean Hellgate: London (a game that financially imperiled Namco/Bandai enough to make them pull out of American development) received a bloody 70 Metascore! If that doesn't illustrate how screwed the system is, nothing does.
11/08/09
Would Ubisoft do this, just for the sake of a better Metacritic rating? Eh, it's not entirely unlikely. The first one was well received by most people, but there was a large minority (myself included) that felt the game was weighed down by a lot of issues.
Even if Assassin's Creed 2 is great, I have no plans to buy it, based solely on how disappointed I was with the first one. I imagine Final Fantasy IX and Metal Gear Solid 3 would have received more sales in much the same way if people weren't disappointed by Final Fantasy VIII and Metal Gear Solid 2. #assassinscreedii
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Of course, high Metacritic scores are the symptom and not the cause- games are good not because Metacritic says so, but because they were made that way. #assassinscreedii
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Anyway, I won't buy a game if it gets a bad score, but I'm comfortable with buying something in my favorite genres if it rates higher than a 75. Otherwise I can wait till it hits the discount rack. $60 is a tad high for mediocrity.
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If you've never hear of "Computer Bild Spiele" then you must be a half world away from Germany or live under a rock/bridge.
Here in GER the mag hardly needs an introduction and is backed up by the Germany's most successful newspaper publishing company Axel Springer Verlag.
Also Ubi has already pulled that one with EGM over AssCreed1, so go get a clue:
[www.1up.com] #assassinscreedii
11/09/09
Everybody in Germany, Austria and Switzerland knows it. But that might as well be translated to "no one" for you - right? #assassinscreedii
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I just go to GameTrailers and look at the admittedly great footage. I don't listen to what the review has to say, since half the time they sound like they were paid off (in the case of AAA titles), and a fourth of the time their opinion is just flat out wrong. I only tend to agree with them for a fraction of their reviews, but I keep coming back and watching them because their footage really informs me of whether the game looks good or not.
Slightly off topic, I also buy my games on the cheap now, so if a game turns out to be a stinker at least it won't feel like I wasted a massive amount of cash for it. There's nothing worse than buying an overhyped game praised by practically all reviewers, paying full price for it, taking it home and finding out it's actually mediocre. #assassinscreedii
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