Jump to content
The Community Blog (An Invitation)

thepixiesrock

Members
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    3206

  • Joined

  • Last visited

 Content Type 

Posts posted by thepixiesrock

    Fable 2 scores 10/10 on Eurogamer...

    in Computer and Console

    Posted

    Most games are going to be good, above a five.

     

    How did you reach that conclusion? Most music is crap, most movies are crap, most books are crap, most everything done by people is crap. Why would games be any different?

     

    I don't know about the other things, but most music is actually good. I mean, right, we've just gotten down to the root of subjectivity, but most music is good. It depends on how you evaluate it I guess, like, if you evaluate it on how much you like it, sure a lot of music is crap, but if you evaluate it on how it uses the different aspects of music, or how it doens't use them, and to what effect, and what intent, then yeah, most music is actually good. But more to your point, I wouldn't mind betting everything on the assumption that the gap between what the worst a game can be, and the average, is much larger than what the best a game could be given the circumstances, and the average. I don't know how either of us can argue this, but it's what I think.

    Fable 2 scores 10/10 on Eurogamer...

    in Computer and Console

    Posted

    The entire point of a review scale is to compare games with other games. An average game should get an average score. If you make 7 an average score then you're essentially refusing to use the lower half of your scale.

     

    I should add that I don't think grade inflation is precisely what's happening. What I think is happening is that easily impressed gamers are reviewing games.

     

    We're talking about average here, not median. There's a difference, just because five is in the middle doesn't mean most games are going to be five. Most games are going to be good, above a five.

     

     

    I mean, give a kid who didn't grow up with your old games the choice of your old game, or a new game. your old game they rated a nine back when it was almost impossible to get that rating, or a new game that they gave a nine or ten "undeservingly" The kid is going to pick the new game, because your old games suck. Face it.
    No. Ask a kid whether he prefers the latest Harry Potter book or flick vs Crime and Punishment or The Seventh Seal, and you get pretty much the same result. Following that argument only leads to the conclusion that game reviewers have the degree of refinement in their criteria of a five year-old - which I suspect isn't what you were trying to prove.

     

    Right, I didn't mean to imply a certain age by what I said. I just meant someone who didn't grow up with the game. I guess I said kid in the more abstract sense, where it's a person younger than the other person, like from a different time. Older person vs. younger person.

    Fable 2 scores 10/10 on Eurogamer...

    in Computer and Console

    Posted · Edited by thepixiesrock

    I mean, the problem is that if they rated games extremely exclusively like some people want, then how do you compare them to games later on? So take a great game from ten years ago and give it a ten out of ten. But what about now ten years later? Is it still worth that? I mean, how could it be, games have advanced so far. If you made a game exactly like that game ten years ago today, it wouldn't get a ten out of ten. How could it? Graphics, gameplay, voice acting, storylines, cutscenes, all of this type of stuff has progressed since ten years ago. So how could you possibly say that that game ten years ago deserves a ten out of ten, or even a nine out of ten if you're one of those "no ten exists" people.

     

    Wait, what's that? The game was fantastic for it's time? Given what it was working with, and what it was competing against, it was near perfect? It was, the best at what it did relative to a lot of factors.

     

    If they rate games they way they do now, it does kind of devalue the system of rating games, but it makes it easier to tell what good games will be if you're looking to buy a new game right now. I mean, give a kid who didn't grow up with your old games the choice of your old game, or a new game. your old game they rated a nine back when it was almost impossible to get that rating, or a new game that they gave a nine or ten "undeservingly" The kid is going to pick the new game, because your old games suck. Face it. They were great for you because you grew up on them, but when it comes down to it, old games just aren't as good as new games, and will never be. They are great to you because you saw what it was, what games were when it came out. You still rate the game a ten because it was the best at what it did given it's circumstances. Ten years from now, new games won't stand up either, except to people that were gaming when they came out.

     

    This is all ignoring the fact that people like different things in their games. So while you may value one thing highly, other might not, and while you hated this feature, someone else could have loved it.

    Members of the forum who are no more

    in Way Off-Topic

    Posted

    Remember that Vampire thing we did? That was fun.

     

    You mean that time we captured a drifter and bled him to death in your barn?

     

    hahahaha

     

    Yeah, I don't think you were involved in it. It was like some vampire tabletop You people know it I'm sure. I'm trying to think, Ender was the GM, and it was me, Baley, Kaftan, Eldar, Jags, Eru, I think Muso, and maybe like, a few other people. It was so long ago I can't remember.

×
×
  • Create New...