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Reviewers have it tough these days. With a dozen or more games coming out each week, they’re probably under horrible pressures to deliver their goods faster than ever before, with the result that we get crazy scores for games like Need For Speed: ProStreet and Assassin’s Creed. And the latter is pretty disturbing, considering the sheer scope of the game and how it promised to deliver truly next-generation gameplay.
But it looks like dear Gabe from Penny Arcade has stumbled on to the obvious fact as to why such a promising game is getting 7-something scores.
Imagine what an open ended sandbox title must look like to a reviewer especially right now. How many games do they have piling up on their desks? A game like Assassins creed isn’t meant to be played under a deadline. You shouldn’t be trying to beat it as fast as you can so you can move on to Mass Effect or Mario Galaxy. As soon as I gave myself a deadline all of a sudden I understood all their complaints. It was like a fucking Escher painting. I had put myself in their shoes and suddenly the landscape flipped and I could see games from their perspective. In the end I wasn’t angry at them for their bad reviews. I actually just felt bad for them.
Amen, brother! Reviews are important but its just as important to get them right. After all, our readers count on us to tell them the naked truth about how the game actually is and say actually what we feel about the game. Otherwise, we might just as well be GamePro Australia or IGN. We actually delayed our reviews for The Orange Box, simply because we wanted to play the game at its own pace, delivering all the nuances it should. Blazing through the game with cheats enabled would have just turned that smiley face upside down!
It looks like more and more gamers just want to complain these days, welcoming mediocrity with open arms and trashing something that actually tries to do something ambitious. Like Jay said yesterday, if a game looks photorealistic, obviously it’s going to perform bad. Why complain about Crysis‘ performance after Cevat himself said no computer will be able to run it at the highest settings for the next 2 years. Hello, Far Cry, anyone? Just shut up, hunker down and have fun.
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November 15th, 2007 at 1:07 pm
What a “Crysis”..!! but a very good thought there… u never know whats gonna be the problem for your product in future.. did ubisoft even anticipate that? but then again, they didnt anticipate the Raymond hype either… there’s a good Do’h and then there is an evil Do’h.