You've heard me go on about them before. Well, now it's time for another episode of "Critic Bashing 101".
Critics...people who take opinions and make them into fact. Real jerks. If they said Ocarina of Time sucked, people would listen to them and it wouldn't be a million seller title. Anyway, this time it involves video game movies.
Have you ever heard of a movie called Postal? It's based on the Video Game of the same name. It was directed by Uwe Boll, and because of that fact alone, people hated it. This is crap. People shouldn't hate a movie just because a certain person directed it. The movie is definitely not realistic by any means, but Uwe Boll did
not do a bad job in directing it. It's funny, and I was really entertained by it. It's probably just me, but I cannot understand why people hate that man and his movies. House of the Dead was good too. Yeah. I went there.
As for Video Games...I don't complain about bad graphics or praise games with good graphics, because I don't really care about graphics. I play games for the Story and Gameplay. This brings me to my point...Who the hell is Gamespot to say that Saint's Row The Third is "Visually Unimpressive"? That is just stupid! Why are you gonna complain about graphics when you have a fun game in front of you?!
Anyway, I think I've made my point. Agree with me or Disagree with me, I don't care. However, if you Disagree with me, at least keep your counter-argument civil and calm. Thank you, and good night.
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There is no shame in enjoying a bad movie/game/song/book/etc.
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Gamespot is full of a lot of bull shit reviews, in my opinion. I normally watch game trailers and read about the game then decide for myself if I'd like it, not if some call of duty fanboy fudge packer would like it.
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I tend to check out IGN's game reviews more than those of other sites.
However, I pay closer attention to IGN's aggregate user/reader rating of a game when it gets 25 or more individual ratings than that of the reviewer. I'm sure there's some bias in user ratings, too, but I'd like to think it's less acute than any professional reviewer's bias. And I figure the more user ratings that are added to the overall aggregate, the more the bias is mitigated.
Then again, I'm probably being naive about the whole deal.
Just remember that games, like any other form of entertainment, are a subjective thing: what you might consider entertaining might not be so to others, and vice-versa. And ultimately, the only reviewer/critic you can really rely on is yourself.
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remember before brink came out they loved it.
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