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Author: honestgamer
Posted: January 25, 2009 (02:14 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
I could make similar complaints about Jason Venter's Winning Eleven 2007 review (complaining that you can't slide tackle everyone is clear evidence of a lack of understanding of the genre, in my view).
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Author: Halon
Posted: January 25, 2009 (04:43 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Yeah, it was David Jaffe. Just forgot his name ATM.
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Author: Genj
Posted: January 25, 2009 (05:27 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Posting in legendary topic.
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Author: Lewis
Posted: January 26, 2009 (12:20 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
"If Road & Track started rating down sports cars that don't have enough towing power, people would cry 'fowl' and they would be right to do so. It's the same sort of thing here. Rate a game down because it's a bad game, not because it's a good game within its respective genre and you just don't like that genre."
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Author: Halon
Posted: January 26, 2009 (07:14 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
He was pissed because he felt the game shouldn't be judged in the same way as every other game on the planet and should be treated lighter because it was not intended to be a great game. In other words, it should be rated based on what it was supposed to be (which in this case is a mediocre arcade game), which is absurd I don't have the blog post and don't feel like searching for it but in the process he threw a hissy fit and started crying like a baby.
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Author: Lewis
Posted: January 27, 2009 (12:20 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
I can't find the original post, but I've just read a response to the uproar about it by Jaffe, in which he says he doesn't have a problem with the review score or tone - he mentiones a few reviews that criticised it even more heavily that he even agrees with in parts. Instead, he says, he has a problem with how much the Gamespot writer managed to miss the mark in terms of actually analysing how the game works. Which, y'know, is kind of what I said. It's like a big press release, followed by "and it's really good, but far too short."
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