Dead Space : IGN gives it an 8.7
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I was looking into Dead Space since I wanted to get to the horror/thriller genere in gaming.
But then i saw the 8.7 IGN gave it.
I was so shocked! An 8.7 of all things! Maybe I shouldn't get it now...
In a more serious tone though, when I saw the score I thought "That's good" because i thought it meant that it was a very good game. Maybe something bad here or there, but I thought overall it was a good experience.
Apparantly, though, an 8.7 isn't a very good score and that means it's complete suckage now (exageration, I know, but work with me here!)
really, are we going to base how good a game is on scores from one site? I can understand a median, that way you know the general opinion on the game or if it was a pretty bad score (5.3 or something like that), but just one silly little number from one gaming site isn't going to make much of a difference.
It's one man's opinion, no need to make a fuss out of the score he gave.
Either way, Dead Space looks very interesting to me, and I thought IGN gave it a good score.
But then i saw the 8.7 IGN gave it.
I was so shocked! An 8.7 of all things! Maybe I shouldn't get it now...
In a more serious tone though, when I saw the score I thought "That's good" because i thought it meant that it was a very good game. Maybe something bad here or there, but I thought overall it was a good experience.
Apparantly, though, an 8.7 isn't a very good score and that means it's complete suckage now (exageration, I know, but work with me here!)
really, are we going to base how good a game is on scores from one site? I can understand a median, that way you know the general opinion on the game or if it was a pretty bad score (5.3 or something like that), but just one silly little number from one gaming site isn't going to make much of a difference.
It's one man's opinion, no need to make a fuss out of the score he gave.
Either way, Dead Space looks very interesting to me, and I thought IGN gave it a good score.
It's also worth noting that Metacritic weighs reviews different depending on a site's traffic and reputation. IGN will influence the average a lot more than, say, GamesRadar, and more still than smaller, independent sites. I use Game Rankings instead because it gives all reviews equal weight.harhol post=9.73884.815576 said:
8.7 is a solid effort, especially for new IP (and especially for an EA game). It's when sequels pull this kind of score that you have to be wary.
After reading the review it seems that all the major components that make a game enjoyable (story, graphics, sound, control, immersion) are well executed in Dead Space. They reviewer only had some minor quibbles. It definately sounds worth checking out.
After reading the review it seems that all the major components that make a game enjoyable (story, graphics, sound, control, immersion) are well executed in Dead Space. They reviewer only had some minor quibbles. It definately sounds worth checking out.
Deary me, the old review marking argument again...8.7 is a fantastic score. Translated into percentages that's 87%, which is only 13% away from perfection. Based on some of the other reviews I've read (i.e. Eurogamer's) Ign have over-marked it. But then, they always tend to do that.
Apparently Dead Space is a well executed action game that follows the conventions of the genre too strongly and steals just about all of it's game mechanics apart from strategic dismemberment from other places. Does this mean it's bad? No. Does this mean it's uninspired? Yes.In addition to this there is apparently little development throughout the whole game: it remains exactly the same from the beginning to the end, with very few set-pieces or changes in pace.
They do say that the action is fantastic and the game is gorgeous, but the lack of any real depth makes for an enjoyable but sadly limited experience. If all you want to do is kill monsters then it's great, but apart from that it does nothing particularly memorable within the experience.
I think this is probably bang on the money, though I'm still going to pick up a copy to investigate for myself.
Apparently Dead Space is a well executed action game that follows the conventions of the genre too strongly and steals just about all of it's game mechanics apart from strategic dismemberment from other places. Does this mean it's bad? No. Does this mean it's uninspired? Yes.In addition to this there is apparently little development throughout the whole game: it remains exactly the same from the beginning to the end, with very few set-pieces or changes in pace.
They do say that the action is fantastic and the game is gorgeous, but the lack of any real depth makes for an enjoyable but sadly limited experience. If all you want to do is kill monsters then it's great, but apart from that it does nothing particularly memorable within the experience.
I think this is probably bang on the money, though I'm still going to pick up a copy to investigate for myself.
I'm tempted to start a thread specifically for LittleBigPlanet's 9/10 score on Eurogamer. It was halarious to read the comments though, with one of them being (and I roughly quote) "That's it PS3 fanboys! You just had your last exclusive ranked down on the only site that matters!".
Sad really.
Sad really.
...Yahtzee said one thing once that made me extremely relieved to realize I wasn't in fact the only person with a brain in the world:
How do you transform a complex opinion on a 5 or 10, or whatever, point scale?
Anyone else realizes that these values are actually arbitrary?
Unless I'm missing out on something, there is no equation known to man capable of converting a highly complex qualitative variable into a simple quantitative one. I mean, this would make statistics so much easier, but there isn't.
You know how these ratings are done? Reviewer X goes to review game Z. Reviewer X players through game Z and decides first whether or not it made him want to stab his own nuts out with a burning fork. If yes, the final score will be bellow average, if not, above average.
Now Reviewer X mentally picks up another game he already reviewed of the same kind, for instances game V, if he never reviewed one like it, he'll use the best game he knows of the genre, or failing that a utopic vision of such, as a reference and compare it to game Z.
"Was it as good, was it better, was it worst". This is how reviewer X is going to decide what rate this game gets... But how exactly does this work? I mean, maybe it was better, but how much better? Game V got a 9.3, but game Z has much better gameplay, but the story is weaker. What do we add and detract from game V's score? Simple. Introduce a random variable. Something along the lines of: "eerm...Z gets 9.6".
Generally when I see a numeric "rate" attached to a review I rarely bother to read the review. It's a safe sign it's a bad review to begin with.
How do you transform a complex opinion on a 5 or 10, or whatever, point scale?
Anyone else realizes that these values are actually arbitrary?
Unless I'm missing out on something, there is no equation known to man capable of converting a highly complex qualitative variable into a simple quantitative one. I mean, this would make statistics so much easier, but there isn't.
You know how these ratings are done? Reviewer X goes to review game Z. Reviewer X players through game Z and decides first whether or not it made him want to stab his own nuts out with a burning fork. If yes, the final score will be bellow average, if not, above average.
Now Reviewer X mentally picks up another game he already reviewed of the same kind, for instances game V, if he never reviewed one like it, he'll use the best game he knows of the genre, or failing that a utopic vision of such, as a reference and compare it to game Z.
"Was it as good, was it better, was it worst". This is how reviewer X is going to decide what rate this game gets... But how exactly does this work? I mean, maybe it was better, but how much better? Game V got a 9.3, but game Z has much better gameplay, but the story is weaker. What do we add and detract from game V's score? Simple. Introduce a random variable. Something along the lines of: "eerm...Z gets 9.6".
Generally when I see a numeric "rate" attached to a review I rarely bother to read the review. It's a safe sign it's a bad review to begin with.
Uhh, last I checked, 8.7 is a pretty damn good score. It's almost a 9.
Anyway, I think Dead Space looks awesome. But I'm going to wait to play it when I get it for my birthday in December or for Christmas. I don't want to start it so soon before I get Fallout 3.
Anyway, I think Dead Space looks awesome. But I'm going to wait to play it when I get it for my birthday in December or for Christmas. I don't want to start it so soon before I get Fallout 3.
Be that as it may, I said that because a frightening and convoluted plot decays even quicker.harhol post=9.73884.815687 said:
Inform me of a single horror movie in which the key ingredient isn't something that's resolved somewhere around the climax or end of the film.
How are you going to deliver the same experience again, without erasing the auditions memory?
IGN US gave it an 8.9, I was thinking I'd check it out.
Oh, and anyone that has watched my posts knows I called that this game would be bad...damn it! IW as wrong *Shakes Fist*
Oh, and anyone that has watched my posts knows I called that this game would be bad...damn it! IW as wrong *Shakes Fist*
I've noticed that IGN AU always mark a game down .2% from their US brethren. Maybe they're just trying to be different.