What is with all the IGN hate, they aren't that bad

@UlquioKani

What is with all the IGN hate, they aren't that bad

They reall are.

@UlquioKani

What is with all the IGN hate, they aren't that bad

They reall are.

@phrosnite: I dunno. Think about how ridiculous ad campaigns and other nonsense have gotten. I think that was a fair assumption.

@iAmJohn said:

@UlquioKani

What is with all the IGN hate, they aren't that bad

They reall are.

Remember when they thought that there was something inside the stone egg that Ubisoft had sent them for Splinter Cell: Conviction? They tried to break it open... Monkeys I tell you, monkeys.

@phrosnite: I dunno. Think about how ridiculous ad campaigns and other nonsense have gotten. I think that was a fair assumption.

@UlquioKani said:

@phrosnite said:

@iAmJohn said:

@UlquioKani

What is with all the IGN hate, they aren't that bad

They reall are.

Remember when they thought that there was something inside the stone egg that Ubisoft had sent them for Splinter Cell: Conviction? They tried to break it open... Monkeys I tell you, monkeys.

http://www.giantbomb.com/giant-bomb-mailbag-crate-barrel-edition/17-1580/ Here, the Bombsquad fail to realize the box has a lid and busts into the top. People can make mistakes or be led to believe something

I personally smash everything open. Sadly I often break game discs that way, but it's worth it in the end.

@iAmJohn said:

@UlquioKani

What is with all the IGN hate, they aren't that bad

They reall are.

Their review scores are usually a pinch higher than more reviewers but they usually give about the same score as most other publications.

@phrosnite: I probably wouldn't have thought of that. Some people just don't notice things like that, they just slip your mind on occasion. Also. The quest for candy is one that has many casualties. I mourn for the egg, but any small chance of candy is one worth breaking things for.

i was excited for a bit, then when i started seeing the gameplay videos it seemed pretty mediocre. i can see me getting it on gamefly and returning it in a few days.

@UlquioKani

@iAmJohn said:

@UlquioKani

What is with all the IGN hate, they aren't that bad

They reall are.

Their review scores are usually a pinch higher than more reviewers but they usually give about the same score as most other publications.

They also are the gravest offenders of awful writing and idiotic review policies (the 7-10 scale, that unnecessary score granularity that they've thankfully gotten rid of) that make most games writing such a fucking joke.

@phrosnite said:

@Laketown said:

@phrosnite said:

@Camosid said:

@Grimace: I agree. Shouldn't 7 mean the game functions and presents some decent mechanics. Sounds to me like the game works well enough to allow you to enjoy the atmosphere, enviroments, and story. Hell even a 6.5 I would take as the game just has a few major flaws and is maybe a bit repetative.

Anything below 8 means rental(consoles) or "wait for huge price drop" for us PC gamers. These games aren't worth full price. Not to mention that Alice looked for fucking promising. The game looked like a 8.5+. Kevin even said that the old game is superior to the new one.

lol you care about review scores

everybody shit on alpha protocol but I paid the full 50 and felt great about doing so, so...

I have yet to buy a game below 8 which is worth the $50.

Weren't you one of the people that loved Dragon Age 2?

@theoldhouse: I played the demo of Dungeon Siege III. That games feels wierd. Enemies don't react like at all when you hit them. It's like it exsist in some wierd place between Neverwinter Knights and Diablo.

@theoldhouse: I played the demo of Dungeon Siege III. That games feels wierd. Enemies don't react like at all when you hit them. It's like it exsist in some wierd place between Neverwinter Knights and Diablo.

Meh...about what I expected. I'm not sure where the random hype for this game is coming from, the first Alice was kinda crummy.

@theoldhouse: Also just a side note. We all know Shadows of the Damned isn't going to be a great game, but it will be Suda and I am sure it will be enjoyable in that way.

Sad times. 
 
All these games need to go down in price a ton before I even consider buying them 

@Chop said:

Meh...about what I expected. I'm not sure where the random hype for this game is coming from, the first Alice was kinda crummy.

It's a cult classic though.

@atomic_dumpling said:

@Chop said:

Meh...about what I expected. I'm not sure where the random hype for this game is coming from, the first Alice was kinda crummy.

It's a cult classic though.

Yup, there were a bunch of people who liked that game.

Joystiq gave it 3 and a half stars.

@UlquioKani Ask me if I care that other sites have completely busted scales. That doesn't make it okay for IGN to do it too. You'd think that as the biggest video game site on the web they'd be trying to push for better content since their asses can afford it. Nope! Also, I have never been shy in saying that I don't think the Bombsquad are the best writers, but even they wouldn't be caught dead with the shut IGN does. That god awful Dead Space 2 review that sounds like a twelve-year-old wrote it (or any of their other terribad reviews)? That "fake or gay" article from a month or two back? They're basically everything Jaffe was ranting about on one of the E3 podcasts of sites that claim to be professionals but come off no different from clickbaiting fanboys.

6.5/10 is not a bad score!!! that means there is more good than bad!!! 6.5 is a good score!! GAHHH!

The fact that no-one buys any game that gets below an 8 is exactly why every game is like COD, if you lampoon games that didn't get "editor's choice" then you are not allowed to complain about game stagnantation

@Enigma777: Woah. Reading the Joystiq review makes me excited to get home after I am done not paying attention to advanced Java GUI and play. Sounds actually pretty neat there.

I'm not familiar with the 7-10 review scale everyone is talking about. Could someone clue me in?

@solh0und said:

6.5/10 Agree or Disagree? I'm very excited about the game so i personally disagree.

Um what? You think the game received too low a score because you are very excited about it? What is your criteria for reviewing a game?

@Getz said:

IGN is staffed by monkeys.

Pretty much this.

Nothing in that review stops me from buying it, looks great. I'm more into Alice for the story, nice to hear the combat and platforming have improved and got depth to them.  
 
Don't know why it got a low score, complaining about invisible walls when this generation is full of scripted games that do that? I don't mind graphical inconsistencies, it doesn't have that kind of $50 million budget.  
 
And getting to walk around Victorian London?! I'm in!  

Still looking forward to this game a lot. '

Score ain't everything...especially not from that place.

I expected as much, just looks like another 'goth' adaptation of Alice in Wonderland strapped into a hack and slash platformer. That ship sailed a long time ago, who is actually interested in that thematically anymore? Paramore fans?
 
"Man, Lewis Caroll must have been so stoned when he wrote Alice in Wonderland! Only drugs can lead to such imagination and creativity!" 
 
Le sigh.
  
Rant over.

@Gizmo: I thought Lewis Caroll was on morphine or something at some point, but yea I see what you mean. the visuals still appeal to me for some reason. Can't escape it I also still like zombies. These are two things I have liked for quite a long time and I don't think will be going away because of popular opinion.

Like the first one, I think this game is made specifically for a niche crowd who are into it.  Many critics will not rate it so high, like the first game, but there are people like me who will purchase and eat it up.  Besides, kinda like DNF, a lot of people lost hope that a sequel would rise from the first one, so the thought of finally being able to play it is exciting.

I expected as much, just looks like another 'goth' adaptation of Alice in Wonderland strapped into a hack and slash platformer. That ship sailed a long time ago, who is actually interested in that thematically anymore? Paramore fans?

How can you disagree with the reviewer without playing it?
 
Though that said IGN are terrible.

I been looking forward to it.. but It doesn´t seems to be that great to be honest

American McGee doesn't have a good track record and it seems to continue. At least it ain't as bad.

Damn, I really wanted to believe.

Fuck review scores.

@solh0und said:

6.5/10 Agree or Disagree? I'm very excited about the game so i personally disagree.

I'm grabbing it for the pc. The Xbox 360 metacritic is 69 and the user score is ~8. The PC version scored much higher at 7.9 with 9.5 user score. It probably looks/runs better on the PC.

@Gizmo said:

Le sigh.

Oh, fuck you.

@Getz said:

IGN is staffed by monkeys.

That's an insult to monkeys. At least monkeys can be cute and funny.

The game is alright. The gameplay itself gets repetitive and parts of it just drag on. But the world itself more than makes up for it. So much creepy weird shit going on.

Oh, and London creeped me out more than any other game. Except maybe Call of Cthulhu, a game I refuse to play anymore.

From what i saw in the quicklook,  there's nothing really exciting about it's combat or brilliant about it's platforming.   So i can see how some reviewers gave it average scores.   It has a cool art style though.

WARNING: PC version is locked @ 30fps. Gotta alter value in the config file to get 60fps