Can't wait for this :P
GameSpot has given it an 8.5.
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I am pissed.
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I am pissed.
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Quote from el padrino:
Your standards are low as gunship, I mean 8.5 isn't a bad score, but it's not a "really good score"
Meh I guess I put to much effort in my school grades.
Meh I guess I put to much effort in my school grades.
8.5 IS very good actually. On a scale, the 6-7 neighborhood is "avarage" to "good", 8 is "very good", 9 is near-perfect and 10 is revolutionary. Something like that. On Gamespot's scale, games with a score of 7 or higher are almost always buyworthy if you ask me, as long as you don't hate the genre. Especially if you read the bad points. Some context sensitive stuff doesn't work well enough, streamlinedness makes things a bit less adventurous, and it's too similar to the past two games. Sound like valid critique to me.
One of the things I didn't like about Echoes is how similar it was to the first game, even though the level design was obviously a lot worse. And I see Corruption still has shriekbats... AGAIN.
I loved shriekbats in the first game. Then they appeared in Echoes and I was like "what...? I've already done this! These guys are already dead, I don't wanna do it again! And why do the exact same creature with a different look exist on three or more completely different planets?!"
I dislike recycled enemies.
Also, I think the remark about the streamlined control has to do with Corruption being more action oriented than the previous games. Prime had the crazy non-dual-analog control scheme to make it work less like an action game and more like an exploration platformer, which is what it was. With the new, actiony control scheme, Corruption eliminates that nuance of the game, and allows for much more hectic action.
I dislike recycled enemies.
Also, I think the remark about the streamlined control has to do with Corruption being more action oriented than the previous games. Prime had the crazy non-dual-analog control scheme to make it work less like an action game and more like an exploration platformer, which is what it was. With the new, actiony control scheme, Corruption eliminates that nuance of the game, and allows for much more hectic action.
http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117934519.html?categoryid=1023&cs=1
Um. Yeah. Someone doesn't get it. I lol'd.
Um. Yeah. Someone doesn't get it. I lol'd.
Take that back, plz. My grandfather had a NES that I inherited last year after he died at the age of 80. A quick estimate of the math - even assuming he got it at launch - proves that age does not equal a stick up where the sun don't shine.
*ahem*
Joystiq thinks the review sucks because the Wii's marketed as a casual console and Metroid is many things and casual ain't it so there's a conflict between the Wii's image and what Metroid presents itself to be.
I think the reviewer's a Metroid virgin. When I first played Zero Mission, it was so not awesome but I still immersed myself in it and it grew to be very awesome.
*ahem*
Joystiq thinks the review sucks because the Wii's marketed as a casual console and Metroid is many things and casual ain't it so there's a conflict between the Wii's image and what Metroid presents itself to be.
I think the reviewer's a Metroid virgin. When I first played Zero Mission, it was so not awesome but I still immersed myself in it and it grew to be very awesome.
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Ready and willing.
Quote from Melancholy Spork:
Also, IGN mentions several times that Prime 3 is eons better than Echoes... but it gave both games the same score.
Well, seeing as how they gave Echoes a 9.5, there isn't much room to rate Prime 3 higher without giving it the 10, which should be quite reserved. I think that's more an admission that they probably should have given Echoes a lower score.