AA the latest victim of IGN
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This is important because IGN receives a lot of views, which can impact the flow of new players to the game, which in turn affects how much coh content gets approved for development.
AA Review
COH 2 Review
Pokemon ORAS review
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Its Ign its that not respected to begin with
This is so true and it bothers me because they used to have really reliable reviews. If they rated something low, I could usually agree with the low score when I played it.
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IGN is like Gamespot, their reviews are all about "Should I buy this game?" I hate that shit, it's so pointless. Imagine reading a book review that went over pros and cons, broke things down into paper quality and appearance and pacing and plot all while claiming to be "objective".
If I want to know if a game is worth buying, I'll talk to friends and people I trust who I know share my tastes. If I'm going to read an article on a website, I want it to have some interesting and substantial content. That's why CGW/GFW was so great. Writing like that is pretty rare in gaming these days unfortunately.
EDIT: Some interesting reading on the subject from a lot of big names in games journalism...
http://shawnelliott.blogspot.ca/2008/12/symposium-part-one-review-scores.html
http://shawnelliott.blogspot.ca/2009/02/symposium-part-two-review-policy.html
And an example of a well-written review that is both informative, thought-provoking, and enjoyable to read. This is Shawn Elliott's Review of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl:
http://web.archive.org/web/20071219135933/http://www.1up.com/do/reviewPage?cId=3158131
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Anecdotal point coming up but the following thread is from a general gaming forum, note the lack of information most of the posters have about the current state of the game
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=934396
Jeremy Parish (think he's at Polygon?)
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interesting read. It has certainly left a bad taste when reviewers put their own subjective views into a review. That's something I expect when I ask a friend or someone not getting paid.
Reviews are inherently subjective since it's someone's opinion, ultimately did they enjoy playing the game game or not.
There's nothing objective about what an individual finds fun or graphically impressive or how good the sound track is.
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That's why the straight-up consumer report "Should I buy this game?" reviews are so useless. I don't know if they still do now, but I know back 7 or 8 years ago that Gamespot legitimately believed their reviews were objective, and it didn't make any sense at all. I have friends I can ask that question to. When I read a review, I want to read an interesting piece on the game in question by a person who has clearly put a lot of time into writing something stimulating.
The review I linked is a perfect example of this approach. It takes the game and looks at it in a way that you might not have considered yourself and it uses other forms of media and other, similar, games as a springboard for discussing the game and its place in its genre in a new and interesting way. It's exactly what I want in a review: a different and compelling outlook on a game that I'm already interested in. Not a bullet-pointed list of pros and cons constructed in the hopes that I might find it useful when making a buying decision.
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So Relic releases a mediocre expansion, overcharges for it, and people are pissed that it gets an 8.2?
your opinion
imo, the expansion is great and playing as different companies is really fun. and point system at the end encourages you to play again and beat yourself or others (i think they should add leaderboard. and the rewards you get at the end is a nice touch. really like it. not excellent though. too easy too many times, no tac map? why? etc etc.
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But that's just the thing. It's literally impossible to write an objective review of a piece of entertainment. Anything you can possibly say about a video game that a person would care to read is going to be opinion, and opinion is subjective.
That's why the straight-up consumer report "Should I buy this game?" reviews are so useless. I don't know if they still do now, but I know back 7 or 8 years ago that Gamespot legitimately believed their reviews were objective, and it didn't make any sense at all. I have friends I can ask that question to. When I read a review, I want to read an interesting piece on the game in question by a person who has clearly put a lot of time into writing something stimulating.
The review I linked is a perfect example of this approach. It takes the game and looks at it in a way that you might not have considered yourself and it uses other forms of media and other, similar, games as a springboard for discussing the game and its place in its genre in a new and interesting way. It's exactly what I want in a review: a different and compelling outlook on a game that I'm already interested in. Not a bullet-pointed list of pros and cons constructed in the hopes that I might find it useful when making a buying decision.
Not trying to derail the post but...
Thank you for your insight! Your links were quite interesting read!
I was done with gaming journalism for similar reasons years ago but again thank you for enlightening me.
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Their negatives are what make it actually interesting.
I think this really cuts to the core of it. When designing AA relic had very specific goals in mind and didn't compromise on the delivery to make the game more user friendly. They wanted every decision and engagement to matter and the brutal manpower system and auto save only features accomplish this quite well. Playing on hard for the first time and not knowing what was going to happen in each mission coupled with the knowledge that a few bad engagements could deplete my entire company was probably my favorite part of the campaign and made beating it with all my companies intact feel like a real achievement. Those mechanics aren't for everyone however and I can see how it could drive some players away.
I would actually be interested in seeing relic take those mechanics even further next time to create a fully realized rogue-like RTS campaign. If not in CoH2 then maybe in DoW3...
As far as game reviews go I would suggest checking out Rock Paper Shotgun as well.
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