I love the crew, and I don't want to be one of those guys who just hates on them if they dislike a game I like, but I felt they were really unfair on Shattered Dimensions. As Jeff said, he played about 45 minutes of it, saw a bunch of bugs (which I never saw playing through the game) and then they all proceeded to shit on it for five minutes (with most of them having played it). I just want to say, that this is a well-made Spider-Man game, and is probably the closest to a "Batman: Arkham Asylum but for Spider-Man"  as we're going to get.
 
Anyone agree? I love the guys, but it's really not their place to judge a game they have never played.

I'm sure there will be a Quick Look and stuff as well. 

I've played the DS Version, it plays like a "My First Metroid" and it's pretty awesome.

" I love the crew, and I don't want to be one of those guys who just hates on them if they dislike a game I like, but I felt they were really unfair on Shattered Dimensions. As Jeff said, he played about 45 minutes of it, saw a bunch of bugs (which I never saw playing through the game) and then they all proceeded to shit on it for five minutes (with most of them having played it). I just want to say, that this is a well-made Spider-Man game, and is probably the closest to a "Batman: Arkham Asylum but for Spider-Man"  as we're going to get. Anyone agree? I love the guys, but it's really not their place to judge a game they have never played. "

Spider-man is apologetically corny. Jeff Gerstmann hates good stuff. Both characters have characteristics that rub people the wrong way, sometimes.

I think the bombcast is becoming more about the personalities of the crew and less about video games. 

They have the luxury to pick and choose coverage, so they just straight up dismiss stuff that doesn't grab them.
 
The amount of shit talked for a 45 minute playthrough seemed really excessive though.

Spoilers: It's a shitty game.

This was the first time they ever hated anything. Unprecedented guys.

Unprecedented hate? Jeff played the game and did not like how 2/4 of the game modes played for the time he has played. How the hell is that unprecedented? You have to realize that maybe will like it, he did not like what he played.

" Jeff hates stuff. "

You should feel lucky to not have experienced any bugs. I haven't played it, but that's basically all I've been hearing about it. Before the Bombcast went up I saw quite a few people on twitter complaining about glaring bugs, including Joystiq's Justin McElroy who said he had to restart (not sure if the whole game or just the level/checkpoint) multiple times due to glitches stopping his progress.

" This was the first time they ever hated anything. Unprecedented guys. "

Maybe some people don't like the same games as other people and their opinions are also valid?

Plus Batman could totally kick Spiderman's ass. (please don't start a big forum debate it was a joke)

" @supermike6: Did Jeff say there were even any bugs? I though his complaints were more towards the stupid voice acting.... "

" I think the bombcast is becoming more about the personalities of the crew and less about video games.  "

Jeff's also been reviewing games for a very long time. I think while he totally knows what he's doing, but he's probably at the point where if a game comes off as slipshod, he's less likely to tolerate it. Besides:  there are so many great and polished games, why waste time on a game that isn't properly tested? Why play an inferior Spiderman: Arkham Asylum when you already have the real one sitting on your shelf?

And if all else fails, he's old. Maybe he was just cranky!

Whatever, no Spider-man game will ever top the Spider-Man 2 movie game.

Why do people have to get defensive when someone disagrees with their opinion? 45 min is usually long enough to have a good impression of what the game has to offer. They have every right to hate the game just as you have every right to love the game.

I love Spider-Man: Shattered Dimension but Jeff hated it.  He had some valid complaints but  the fact that he didn't like the game did not take away from my enjoyment with the game.

I played a bit of it and had a similar experience. It is the exact opposite of fun.

Only Jeff said he hated it.  Ryan commented on how previous Spiderman games have been crap.  The other two said next to nothing.  Jeff even ruled himself out of the QL/review to give the game a fair shake.

" I love Spider-Man: Shattered Dimension but Jeff hated it.  He had some valid complaints but  the fact that he didn't like the game did not take away from my enjoyment with the game. "

" Whatever, no Spider-man game will ever top the Spider-Man 2 movie game. "

The reviews have been average, and most of the major reviews I've read have stated an unpolished feel to it. I think the Gametrailers review does a good job of showing some of those pretty bad glitches in action.

It's already been price cut at many places

Gerstmann stole what little joy I had just because he could :(

Yeah...I think Jeff is a cool dude and all but my opinion is VASTLY different from his
 
I loved Majora's Mask and hated the Bionic Commando Remake
 
Opinions will be opinions...he doesn't need to put IMO at the end of all his sentences so i think you should just accept it for what it is

" OMG, Jeff doesn't like a game! "

How about you accept the fact that Jeff dislikes a game that you don't? It's going to be problematic for you to listen to the Bombcast if you're going to make a thread like this each time a crew member disagrees with your game tastes.

Spiderman games have been pretty rough quality since Spiderman 2. Ultimate was okay, but not great. 

He said he didn't like it after 45 minutes, I'm missing how that's unfair.

They also had some bad things to say about Reach.  While I don't think this Spider-man is great, it's certainly competent and undeserving of the hate Jeff has for it.  It's not really his fault though.  This is what I hate about the fall season of video games: reviewers are playing so many games to give their opinion on them that they just want to get through it.  They get impatient with the smaller stuff that would barely even register in say, the summer when they only review a few games a month.  This results in nearly all their opinions being influenced by time pressure and stress of just wanting to get through it and the reviews highly suspect when they're being read by someone who intends to play the game in order to relax.  Take for example, Jeff talking about running past any fight he could in Reach.  Anyone who played the game by now knows that's ludicrous.  However, the game while entertaining in normal situations when you want to sit back and relax with a video game, is basically taking part in a vast number of fairly large-scale fights which can each take a fairly long time.  For that reason and to Halo's disadvantage, it's not something that can be enjoyed when you just want to get through it as fast as possible, have so much else to do ironically before you can relax and be in the correct mindset to actually review the stuff.  I really do wish the press would stop forcing their reviewers to cast opinions on a shitload of games at one time because it causes me to disregard the opinions they lost sleep over to develop.

 
You should keep in mind that Jeff isn't a big comic book guy so his distaste for Spider-man as a character is understandable.  In the case of Batman:AA i recall him saying he enjoyed the gameplay but didn't really care for the story. 
 
Also, i don't think the rest of the gang out right hated the game as much as Jeff did.  The big discussion was mainly "when will Spidey get the Arkham Asylum treatment?".  According to some user reviews Shattered Dimensions is close enough to be fun, but to a lot of people "close enough" isn't quite good enough. 

Talking about a game =/= a review. 
 
If you enjoyed it good, they didn't oh well.  No reason to cry about it. 
 
Also basically everything I've heard about this game anywhere has boiled down to.  Buggy as fuck.  Same animations for the past handful of games.  Noir is cool but only because it's a bootleg arkham Asylum.

From what I remember he seemed to mostly bash how little he liked Spider-Man's one-liners, which are either amusing if well written, and irritating if they're not. At the end of the day though it's a matter of opinion. Or maybe Jeff's right, he hates Spider-Man. 

I loved the game, didn't catch any glitches, save for one where a script didn't run so I had to restart a checkpoint, which set me back an UNPRECEDENTED 20 seconds.   
 
Generally, I tend to get pretty lucky when it comes to glitches, I rarely encounter them.  I agree that some of the quips were fucking stupid (and he & Madame Web don't play off each other very well).  Some were really funny though.