Recent content by kazriko

Thanks for the clarification. That means that matching this up to Polygon's chart, a 5 would be a 9 or 10, 4 would be an 8, 3 would be a 7, 2 would be a 6, and 1 would be anything from 1 to 5 on their scale... I'd love to see that linked to next to the scores in reviews, else it's hard to...

RPGamer's 1-10 scale was quite atypical in that they used the entire scale for serviceable games similar to most site's 1-5 scales. They probably went to the 1-5 scale because of this. If you look at Polygon's numbers from 5 and down, they're all talking about games that are so broken as to be...

Lets look at what Polygon considers a 6.5. Here's the text of their review policy page for 6 and 7. http://www.polygon.com/pages/about-reviews

It comes from lining up the text descriptions of various sites that explain their grading systems. Escapist doesn't have a page describing their ratings, so you have to go with a stand-in somewhere else. RPGamer's one such site with a 1-5, here's their page. On theirs, a 6-6.9 rating matches up...

Honestly, I just think that it's silly that so many sites including small sites gave it high scores, but the only ones that give them poor reviews have been 2 of the biggest sites. One of those sites did the same thing to other games recently. I've just decided that I should focus on the smaller...

Argh. I'm so sick of this argument. They're building the PS4 around the idea of making it easier and cheaper for developers to make games for the console. If they don't participate in some sort of ill-advised graphical arms race in gaming, then the PS4 should make the entire thing more...

Grandia is a great game. Unfortunately for me, I bought it on Ebay and played it right before it came out on PSN. The next PS1 title in my queue is Threads of Fate. A silly little action rpg that the world seems to have forgotten about. I also have Guacamelee that I need to get time to play...

This "Vita has no games" malarkey is getting really, really old. The system gets piles of games every month. It's doing quite well for a system that is just over a year old. For the first year I had it, it was the #1 system that I played for the entire year. Between my Vita, PS1 and PSP titles...

You know, they could always play one of the Atelier (or associated) games that have more storyline. Atelier Ayesha might have more, though I don't know since it's not out for a couple of weeks. Atelier Iris (1-3) all have more storyline, mostly in associated characters. Mana Khemia 1 & 2...

Hah. Specs and components changing would only be a problem for the early titles. :) You're right, I was being a bit hyperbolic on the PS2 being harder than the PS3, but they are a very similar arch, with the PS3 just having a lot more, and more freedom, which meant more challenges with moving...

It seems strange that Yahtzee doesn't think that the PS2's technical barriers were a problem. It had an asymmetric processor arrangement similar to the PS3's cell chip. Its graphics card was like little else on the market. (Closest is the Matrox Parhelia, which was the card that killed Matrox as...

You know, Yahtzee, that on PSN the full titles and the download only titles sit right next to each other on the new releases list... Ultimately once they drop off that list, they go to different sublists, but upon release they're all nice and equal. Even PS Minis end up on the new releases...

I thought Yahtzee reviewed an Uncharted game at some point in the last couple of years. Uncharted games don't have markers... They do have gentle nudges of where to go if you linger in one place for too long, but no markers.

There are 9 games coming out in October that I absolutely MUST play. :( My backlog already has 158 games in it, and I'm sure there's some that I've failed to put on my backloggery list.

As far as games that look like sequels go... Uncharted: Drake's Fortune. Resistance: Fall of Man. (I believe there was controversy on what title they would use, so they just put both of them in there.)