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egm review scores - september 2007 (lair, blue dragon, mario strikers: charged, etc.)
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Kabuki Waq said:in terms of sales i think Bioshock might make you suicidal
I think Bioshock will do quite well.
It sounds like there will be a pre-release demo which will help a lot, and it seems like the game actually is living up to all the hype. Take-Two seems to be doing a fairly good job at marketing the game too, there is a lot of movies and media out there for it.
Tobor said:
No. I really don't know how well it will do, but it IS more of a shooter than previous games.
It just seems like the type of game where you're going to want to have a working knowledge of Ayn Rand and objectivism to get the most out of it. I think people are going to see commentary on aesthetics scrawled onto walls and just be like wtf.
But by that point they've already paid for it.
The BIG problem with Bioshock, IMO, and expectations with the Xbox Live community is that 1) it's a shooter and 2) it has no multiplayer. Look at what the Darkness had to do.
edit: No is what I THINK i remember reading.
sprocket said:
Games are crafted as pieces of entertainment. As such, I am sure you will have fun with both of those titles. The decision, however, is not simply "will I have fun with this title?"- it is an evaluation of alternatives and, in this particular case, I feel that other games coming this fall will entertain me to a higher degree than both Lair and Blue Dragon.
I want to give LAIR the benefit of the doubt. I played it not too long ago and was ready to break the controller at how hard it was to maneuver. Also everything was covered in vasaline.
I'll wait for more reviews since EGM is kinda scrapping the barrel with its scores these days.
I'll wait for more reviews since EGM is kinda scrapping the barrel with its scores these days.
beelzebozo
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Y2Kev said:
two cerebral first person games in one month. whoda thunk it
Superb graphics were almost making me consider buying this when buying a PS3, but, if other reviews prove EGM right, looks like a no go.
A useless message to Factor 5: for the love of what you care most, if you want to make a GOOD new Turrican on PS3, plaese, *please* call Manfred Trenz back on board. Please.
A useless message to Factor 5: for the love of what you care most, if you want to make a GOOD new Turrican on PS3, plaese, *please* call Manfred Trenz back on board. Please.
fernoca said:
This is totally a "what if" scenario, but I would obviously either (a) save my money for a better year, or (b) buy those titles that appealed to me most on a conceptual basis. I sincerely doubt, however, that we are approaching such a season. (Given the imminent advent of Metroid, Bioshock, Halo 3, GTAIV, CoD4, Uncharted, Mass Effect, etc.)
Edit: P209 is totally right. Those EGMers, what with their curse words of theirs, have no freakin' clue as to what they're doing.
Absinthe (Permed)
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Y2Kev said:
The lack of multiplayer hurts the game and it very well might cost it Game of the Year if it ends up delivering. I also think that a lot of people are expecting it to be like most shooters, but the left of center story and character design reminds me of Psychonauts (which was a failure). Let's see if people can appreciate it. I have a bad feeling that quite a bit of people are going to play it for 30 minutes, will lament the lack of killing, and will try to turn it back in for store credit.
How is 5 average when that is the worst score given in this set of reviews. They have just declared Lair to be the worst game being released out of all of these games.traveler said:
By EGM's own review scores there are probably a hundred games released this year that have scored better than Lair. How the **** is 5 average then?
Virtua Ben
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Eh, I think I'm still going to get Lair. Every time I pick up a game EGM reviews well, I end up not liking it and the games they don't like, I actually like a lot. Go figure.
That's the thing...traveler said:
Most of my favorites games are games that are either universally panned by reviewers and/or gamers...P.N.03..Mortal Kombat...among some others..
The key is not buying every game you like, but just buying the ones that you really want....gut feeling as some people say....because in the end, those reviewers are not going to give you a refund if you buy and hate a game that they said it was "perfect: 10"..
Bearillusion
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Brak said:
You don't make any sense. The scale is 0 to 10. 5 being what we refer to as average.
Brak said:
I always viewed the term "average," at least when looked at in a critical space, to mean average in quality, possessing neither highly good qualities nor extremely detrimental ones, and not in the since that the game is representative of most games. (In other words, the game is neither good nor bad, it lies in between.) Admittedly, this may make it something of a misnomer, but my point stands: 5.0 does NOT indicate that the game is bad. It simply means that Lair doesn't sit on either side of the quality scale.
pissmypants
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joke accountAstroLad said:
GhaleonQ
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Now that the most substantial whining/jeering is out of the way, would you mind just posting the most substantial good and bad points made about Luminous Arc? I was promised a religion story with a Lunar twist, and the import previews and reviews seemed to support that it would be a 7-or-up game. What happened?
Testicular Sound Express
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BWii doesn't come out until October, they're getting it really early. Maybe that means its good?
Halo 3 will probably be the best in the series. People have 'lowered' their expectations after the second game. The feature set Halo 3 is flagging with is incredible. There's so many aspects you can spend tons of hours doing be that co-op, Forge, movie recording/sharing, heaps of multiplayer modes and customization..etc. Halo 3 seems to me to be a very 'Blizzard' esque product in that they don't necessarily have the the greatest graphics technology but it's expressive and cool looking with a ton of features and dripping with gameplay. All that combined with some teary singleplayer moments and riverdance music should put it over the top.
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