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Why use review scores from others to justify the quality of YOUR experience?

Monday, November 10th, 2008

Yes I have recently ventured back into the illogical, ridiculous, never ending, hilarious, and pointless abyss known as System Wars. If you know nothing of how things work here in System Wars let me tell you about one aspect which only reinforces the stupidity of the place (yeah it`s a stupid area to go into, but it is a fun place regardless). In System Wars review scores are used to justify a game or system`s greatness. Of course using a review score to some how prove that your experience was right and other`s experiences with the game were wrong is a lame thing to do, but people do it anyways. Review scores are used here only when they benefit the person, when they don`t give them an advantage in an argument they will not use them, for example here at GS the PC has the most AA and AAA exclusive games out of any system (last time I checked). When you tell that to someone they will simply say I use this other website for review scores so it doesn`t matter. When a game that the same person who “doesn`t care” about GS scores receives a high score from GS they will claim “ownage”. So this whole thing is hypocritical to say the least. Anyways that is enough of a lesson on the way System Wars works for now, it is time to get to the meat of this whole thing.

System Wars is the darkest of dark abysses in which only the bravest and the crazies will post.

You know I love it when people try to use review scores from mainstream websites as proof that a game is great and if you didn t enjoy the game then your experience is wrong or you are just a silly old “fanboy”. For example Halo got a 9.7 here at GS, it has to be good… right? Well I m sure you could argue that the game is technically great and all of that wonderful stuff, but really it all boils down to what you think of the game and not some total stranger s view of a game. The game can be technically amazing in all kinds of aspects, but if it isn t fun than you probably aren t going to play it or at least you probably won t enjoy playing the game.

So let me say this, Halo is an average game. “OMGZ U CAN T SAY THAT IT GOT A 97 out of 100 at METACRITIC!” Yeah well that is nice, but it got a 6.7 from me. Gee, I wonder what I am going to care about more.

Oh noes! The Halo fanboys have transformed!

Now I`m going to have 50 billion crazy rabies infected Halo fanboys chomping at my neck, saying “you are wrong man… Halo is a great game look at these scores man, obviously your experience with the game is incorrect”. What I find to be entertaining might be different than what others find to be entertaining. I have said this type of thing on many occasions, but I will say it again. Games are about entertainment, if the game isn`t entertaining I`m not going to go with the flow and call it entertaining just because it got high scores from some websites and some magazines. Sorry I`m the type of person to assuage you guys. I`m here to state my opinion even if it hurts your hypersensitive bodies and feelings in ways that are currently inconceivable to man. I probably just caused the Earth`s water levels to rise to dangerous cataclysmic levels because of how much tears I`ve brought to the eyes of the fans of Halo. So let me set the record straight and give you all a nice big tissue, I like Halo as a Coopertive game, it is one of, if not the best out of the console FPS bunch so I don`t really consider Halo to be an average game (I gave it a 9.5), but others do and I can understand that. However there are some people out there that just flat out say “Halo Sucks” and don`t give any reasoning for it, that is lame if you ask me.

I m sorry for bringing up Halo, I should have known that their tears could wipe us off the planet. Hopefully it isn t too late.

Don`t give me these review scores as evidence that I`m wrong because Joe, Jan, Jane, John, Jerry Reviewers loved X game. I don`t give a ****. I`m not supporting blind hatred for games, but I do respect people who stand by their own opinions and don`t soften up to please others. So instead of flaunting fancy numbers in my face how about you give me some reasons why a game is good or bad.

People who bash each others console

Monday, November 10th, 2008

Are the majority of the people who bash each others console constantly just a bunch of immature little kids? Or nerds with no future at all in the real world?

mgs4 is not as perfect as gamespot and others say

Monday, November 10th, 2008

seriously the game is just like watching a whole big movie rather than playing the game. when your finally playing, it ends too soon, and your already involved in a 15-20 min cutscene for nothing. i think gta iv is better. because your playing the game more than just watching long random cutscenes.

The one thing that`ll make you buy the system over others

Monday, November 10th, 2008

What is yours?

I broke down each system, though I chose Xbox

Wii- cheap and interactive

PS3- Blu-ray

Xbox- games and online

Generally who gives you more for trade ins- Gamestop/EB, GameCrazy or others?

Monday, November 10th, 2008

I am going to trade in alot of my old games I dont see myself playing anynmore towards new games i have had on the backburner..

WHat store gives the best trade in rates?

Square Enix doesn`t want any console to have an advantage over the others?

Monday, November 10th, 2008

Some poster here said that Square Enix issued the statement referred to in my thread title, and my thoughts were something along the lines of, “Yeah right!”. Is this statement even real? Cause if it is, I`m going to have to advise SE to hone and develop their lying skills just a little more. What does everyone else think?

Games you enjoyed others might never heard of (56k warning)

Monday, November 10th, 2008

There are times when games get overshadowed or there aren`t enough publicity to alert people of the games existance. What are some of the games that you enjoyed playing that others might be oblivious of its existence?

These are mine.

Xenogears

Ring of Red

Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines

Phantom Dust

Gundam Seed Rengou vs Zaft 2 plus

Blood

Saiyuki: Journey West

Sony doesnt copy others?

Sunday, November 9th, 2008

I beg to differ..talk about copying the competition..

Major internet problems with one computer - affects all others

Saturday, November 8th, 2008

My dad`s computer is having a serious problem connecting to the internet and as long as his computer is running in Windows, my internet is messed up as well causing Gamespot and all other websites to load and look very awkward.  Once my dad`s computer is off, internet works normally without problems.  The two other computers running can all be connected to the internet and none of them run into any problems, but as soon as my dad`s computer is turned on, the internet acts up.  My 4 Mbps DSL internet runs through a router which could help explain the issues the other computers have when my dad`s computer is on.

We`ve tried replacing the DSL modem, the router, disabling all firewalls, replacing the NIC card, pretty much everything and the scenario is the same in each case.  Any time my dad`s computer is running with Windows loaded, the internet on all computers gets messed up.  Normally, you rarely see “cannot find server” and other such messages, but any time my dad`s computer is on, they occur with an astonishingly high 80% rate (likely even higher) and it makes using the internet a pain for everyone, but once that computer is turned off, it works fine for everyone.

This has been going on for 3 weeks now.  It first started when a program called “Starware” was installed, which is known spyware.  Using Spybot got rid of it.  Norton Internet Security 2007 on my dad`s computer doesn`t report anything and it didn`t even detect the “starware” spyware either.

What could explain all this?  I know with good certainty that it`s something on my dad`s computer, but running Spybot and NIS turn up nothing.

I, for some odd reason, got logged out while typing my message so I don`t know if my other one sent or not.

can i run others OS`s on my pc?

Saturday, November 8th, 2008

hi all i am just wondering i like to use more then one os . is there a way i can run vista and mac on the same system ? i dont want to buy a mac its self cus the hardware is way over priced on it . also where can i get linux?


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