Mecha Shadow
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New meaning to the term "Death Metal"
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Post by Mecha Shadow on Jan 17, 2008 12:13:08 GMT -5
Aye, corruption is everywhere. Money makes the world go 'round, and professional reviewers, like members of any profession, are out to make a profit. Whether they sacrifice their integrity for that profit varies from reviewer to reviewer, though. Welcome to the forums Akago! Your avatar is... soothing.
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Post by RedPenguin on Jan 18, 2008 1:34:34 GMT -5
Mesmerized. @_@
Heh.. Welcome to the boards, Akago.
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From what I am noticing, most of the recent Sonic games that came out just recently, almost all received bad scores. (thank you, Rush Adventure :O ) All the others, including Mario & Sonic wasn't what was expected. Okay, so M&S was expected not to receive any "Game of The Year" awards, but it seems that all reviewers just tend to be biased against Sonic. You can smell all of the uncharismatic, low expectation, biased, ranting garbage when you read them.
Take the Rivals series for example. The first one wasn't that good to many, but the second one was miles of ahead. With better gameplay, less glitches, involving (or better) storyline, more characters, fascinating level design, yet it received a lower score. >=/ You can also keep hearing some old, redundant chimes of "bring Sonic to his old roots" in every single one of those reviews, with saying like "Only Sonic and Robotnik," "Sonic is all about speed," and "Keep those furball of an annoyance characters away from Sonic, get rid of Tails and Knuckles if you have to!" that it gets annoying and degrading with every sentence you read. Hello!!!! SONIC HAS EVOLVED! GET WITH THE PROGRAM! I sometimes feel like slapping them in the face with what they say. Sonic has to keep up with the new field wars of 3D for his console debuts, and more or less, they won't be at the same level of aptitude that he once had, like it or not. Sure, not all of them were that stellar, But SEGA also needs to figure out what to do with Sonic if they just keep goofing up like they are doing.
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Post by Akago on Jan 18, 2008 2:46:07 GMT -5
xD Its actually a texture from SA1. Fear what I have created with the PVMeditor. You don't want to see what I did to Knuckles, poor guy. Urgh, I hate hearing people say that. Its the main complaint I have with the plot, the games evolved alot, but the plot doesn't seem to be coming with it. I don't want to see the same stuff droning over and over in each game. And Sonic will die out if they try to bring him back to his roots, and devolve the games back to what they were before. I sadly haven't been able to personally play the Rival series either. (Money's short, so I normally have to wait until the price falls enough to get the systems and stuff. I tend to be a Generation or two behind I do watch alot of speed runs and stuff though. If I can't play it, at least I can watch someone else play it.)I guess with the new STHNG game, there are other good things besides a new villan (Even if he vanishes in the end). The newer idea of time travelling, which you also see in Rivals, they've come up with is pretty interesting. I've heard is pretty glitched up, but I can't say one way or another at that. Silver's game play sounds interesting, and I thought the relationship between him and Blaze was cute. If they got rid of the supposed glitches, shorten the load time, threw Elise into a volcano or at least left her dead, and found new plot bunnies instead of the Chaos Emeralds, I'd probably say it's a kickass game. Therefore, I can't really say I hate it that much, but I can't say I like it either. I don't think it deserves the heaping load of crap being dumped on it by reviewers. As with any other Sonic games resently, the reviewers refuse to point out any high points, far and few may they be. I've looked at the plot for Rivals 2, and I really like that they brought the Chao back as a central part of the plot. Its nice to see the little fellows as more then a little minigame AI again.
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Post by Quacker Duk on Jan 18, 2008 3:00:49 GMT -5
Welcome indeed, Akago. ;D
I couldn't have said it better myself, Red.
Honestly, there have been some disappointing Sonic games, like Sonic 2006. Heroes was flawed, too. And while I loved Shadow the hedgehog, I am aware that it was a flaming bag of fan-service.
What bothers me, however, is that others like Sonic Riders 2 and Rivals 2 get crap reviews despite being rather solid games. In fact, Riders actually upsets me, because I thought SEGA did an amazing job of fixing nearly everything that was blatantly wrong with the first game -- and yet IGN and their ilk pass it off as a laughable misfire.
You are right Penguin, many of the top-name review sites take a snide attitude toward Sonic. I get annoyed because IGN keeps mocking the soundtracks, saying that all Sonic games have the same "cheesy rock" soundtrack. First of all, the music for the games changes drastically from game to game with Funk, Techno, Orchestral, and Rock appearing in different games. Hell, they said it about Zero Gravity, and the main theme was clearly techno! Second of all, it's all high-quality, clean, well-composed original music. Just because it's not on their itunes playlist doesn't mean it's in anyway something shameful.
Honestly, I think it's just gotten to the point that reviewers don't want their reputation's tarnished by actually admitting something was good, or that the "new" games don't have to be identical to their 1992 genesis experiences.
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Post by Weirdo94 on Jan 19, 2008 0:18:50 GMT -5
Meh, what can you say? All those "Professional" reviewers are nothing more then the pathetic fad-mongerers of the gaming world.
You could say they're like 50 Cent...only somehow stupider...
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cobaltcrusader
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call me what you will but im taking your cake
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Post by cobaltcrusader on Dec 22, 2009 8:42:03 GMT -5
i have to agree, nearly every review ive read of the current gen sonic games have given them a score of less than 5 the only exception was OXM gave it a seven, which was the only review that seemed slightly in its favour. i think the sonic games have become something more than the"press right for two minutes" gameplay of the originals, which were fun, dont get me wrong, but i found myself liking the sonic adventure duet even more than the originals pro reviewers lust after, well thats all for my first post....
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