GokuZool |
01-17-2004 07:50 PM |
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Originally posted by Zuvio:
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IGN tells me that a nintendo 64 game got a 10 out of 10. Wow, a perfect game.... according to them. Zelda may be a great game and your personal favorite, but IGN giving it a 10 means nothing, nothing at all.
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So you're saying that a respected gaming sites' score and opinion are meaningless? Don't you think that gaming journalism is an important part of the gaming industry and without it, lots of people would go out and buy crap games? I share IGN's opinion of the game and know that if they give a game a 100% it must be pretty good. If I then went to 5 other gaming sites and saw that they all had given the game perfect scores I might *just* think to myself, "wow maybe this game is good."
Say for example, every gaming site and magazine gave (let's say) Baldur's Gate III perfect 100% scores. So would you then say to yourself, "Wow, all these perfect scores - wait, they're other people's opinions, I can't trust these, even though every site, magazine and online review has given this game excellent reviews." "I like the BG series, I enjoyed both games and this latest installment seems to be better than its predecessors but, I don't know, I don't trust IGN's score."
I don't even like IGN that much. The ads, the way you have to subscribe to get certain info - but I do know that the people who review the games aren't stupid.
[ 01-17-2004, 08:26 PM: Message edited by: GokuZool ]
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