IGN Gives Uncharted 3 a 10 out of 10

[Googenstien]

I expect scores for it to be in the 9-10 range. Its the best of what it is and does

I think this is part of the problem. Unlike movies (which have become somewhat codified) games are so varying in style that being 'the best at what it is and does' isn't enough. There are too many fields that a game can be 'the best' of:- RTS, JRPG, MMORPG, FPS etc etc. - that these scores don't translate across genre.

We need a new metric for judging games by. The only reason publications continue to use /10 is to make headlines (such as IGN Gives Uncharted 3 a 10 out of 10), to sell games for publishing partners, and laziness.

Well, like movies the market is flooded with games/movies.. much more now than ever before. Most use reviews as a guideline to steer them toward or away from certain games so the few they buy per month/year are of quality and not mass produced crap. Its not perfect, but it really helps weed thru the Kane & Lynchs of the world.

Now of course there is influence and if you go to different sites/blogs for reviews you can get a better idea and see where advertising and trinkets influenced a score to sell games. I wouldnt put it past every major site has this happen.. I know many times I pegged PC Gamer as one years ago for having full sized ads of a game where within they also rave about it.

A new system would be good but people have been trying this with movies now for years.. thumbs up/down, See it!/miss it!, 0-100 scale... Nothing really took off and 0-10 seems to be, as you said best for headlines

I am not going to buy every game out there to find a good one and will use sites like IGN, Gamespot, this site, blogs, classic game room.. and use those reviews to get a better idea of how a game is.

 

[mb16]

10/10? perfect in every way for everyone...

so what if i dislike over the shoulder games?

Thats ridiculous, you can't expect him to rate it down because you don't like the genre. Hes not writing a review about your opinion, its HIS opinion.
Its like saying "Huh an 8 out of 10 but what if I don't like videogames?"

so you are telling me that this game has graphics equal to crysis, a world equal of Deus ex, the sound track equal to... you get the idea. As thats what i would expect from a perfect game, and even if it had all those things it could still be improved


i am not saying that UC3 is bad. Im saying that no game can be perfect

 

[Macrobstar]

10/10? perfect in every way for everyone...

so what if i dislike over the shoulder games?

Thats ridiculous, you can't expect him to rate it down because you don't like the genre. Hes not writing a review about your opinion, its HIS opinion.
Its like saying "Huh an 8 out of 10 but what if I don't like videogames?"

so you are telling me that this game has graphics equal to crysis, a world equal of Deus ex, the sound track equal to... you get the idea. As thats what i would expect from a perfect game, and even if it had all those things it could still be improved

no game can be perfect

No but the reviewer is telling you that
Opinions ay? How do they work?

 

[Loonyyy]

Reviews are on a bit of a broken scale. Since people use the numbers to compare games to games, giving a review of 10/10 means the game is amazing, if you have the same taste as the reviewer, you will love it. By the same token, anything less than that is less than perfect, which kind of doesn't work... The best systems have unatainable perfection, since if you find something better, you need 11/10. Add to that that no game gets less than 5, and you have a truly horrid system, where games which are average and up are rated 7.5 and up, and lazy reviewers (IGN, Gamespot) are forced to give 7s 8s and 9s repeatedly. Sooner or later they're going to give out a 10 which may not be deserved. Scrap the numbers alltogether I reckon: I prefer Yahtzee style reviews, or the content of an Escapist review or the text of the IGN and Gamespot ones. The opinion is more important than the number they give, unless they want to constantly change the score... They could do something like a scale they put all games on I guess...

 

[Bacaruda]

The reviewer sounded to me very unprofessionally. And I have never trusted IGN for anything.

Anyway, I think people should stop putting Gamespot and IGN in the same department. They are nothing alike. Gamespot's scores have been generally lower and they have, generally, a more professional staff.
(Gamespot gave Uncharted 3 a 9/10.)

 

[Retronana]

10 to me means masterpiece, is it up there with bioshock, wind waker and deus ex?
No, but it is definitely 9, meh story and characters stop it from being anymore.

 

[liveslowdiefast]

I get it, but 10/10 implys that the game is perfect in every way. what happens if naughty dog gives a patch does that make the score irrelivant? i mean 9.9 ok, i'm sure its a superb game and as most naughty dog titles are. but 10/10 nah.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

I read that as "Uncharted get's 3/10 from IGN"

Looks very good, but I'm poor after pre-ordering Arkham City and Battlefield 3. With those and Skyrim I doubt I will be able to get it until next year.

hah your not the only one who read it that way.


OT: well, what else were you expecting for a AAA game?

Uncharted games are fantastic from a gameplay standpoint. They are also fantastic in the character department. The story is good...until it gets to the third act and it suddenly takes a weird turn that inevitably sucks out the man vs man drama in favor of some unneeded supernatural crap. I'm looking forward to the third game, but I just hope they don't do that sort of thing again.

And no, I'm not gonna jump on the elitist IGN bashing bandwagon. They've been generally OK in my book.

also this.

the games aren't bad...which is good in my book, i can enjoy them from beginning to end, and really soak up the gameplay, so it's worth the 60 bucks imo

 

[Custard_Angel]

AAA game from major developer gets 10/10 rating.

Stop.

The.

Fucking.

Presses.

Prediction: Game will be functional but utterly empty and completely forgettable. Received a 10/10 when a 7/10 would be more accurate.

 

[Jazoni89]

I never really gave a shit about the Uncharted games.
Seems a bit too cinematic. It seems more like an interactive movie than an actual game.
It's just not something I'd pla- OH MY GOD A BIRD CRASHED INTO THE WINDOW NEXT TO ME IT'S STUCK WHAT THE FUCK

Has all of the Escapist catched the negativity bug while I've been away.

I mean Uncharted 3, GTA 5.

So much hate...for games that have not even come out yet.

It almost seems that people on here just hate for the sake of being Hipster, and cool.

I preparing myself for Skyrim being the next bastion of hate on here over the coming weeks.

 

[Project_Xii]

....

Reading threads like this make me wonder whether the gaming community is completely full of angry, jaded people who just enjoy hating on popular games to be cool, or whether they just all gather on the Escapist.

I have little doubt UC3 will be 10/10. UC2 was for me. #1 was only a 7, but #2 fixed most everything I had problems with. Naughty Dog are fantastic developers who know how to make adventure games. I understand UC won't appeal to the hardcore multiplayer or FPS crowd, but anyone who denies their quality is just being plain dense and displaying what little knowledge they have on what makes games good.

 

[dickywebster]

Bet someone calls it game of the year, honestly ive seen too many average or better games get 10/10 and/or game of the year so it really means nothing to me.

Its like one time at the cinema i walked past a wall of posters advertising about 7 or 8 films and at least half of them were called the film of the year by one person or another, its just too common a phrase or the like so it loses all meaning to me, like 10/10 has.

 

[RoBi3.0]

I have always thought assigning arbitrary number to video games in an indication of how "good" the game is, was an exercise in futility. Numbers never mean the same to different people. My opinion scores mean nothing, read the fucking review if you want to know the quality to the game. If the reviewer is worth his/her salt the written review showcase what the game does right and where it falls short. After reading it you should be able to decide if the game is worth picking up or not. If the review did their job right.




That being said I have always had a high respect for the Uncharted series. It, in my opinion, is a point of quality that games should aspire to.

 

[northeast rower]

The guy who reviewed it is a dyed-in-the-wool Sony fanboy... I'm sure that Uncharted 3 will be good, but when he can't pick out a single flaw there is definitely something fishy there.

 

[l3o2828]

It's entretaining, but its full of issues , i don't think it deserves a 10.
Story, gameplay and graphics aren't so perfect and orgasmic that it deserves a 10...IGN you are just...crazy.

 

[Furioso]

It's entretaining, but its full of issues , i don't think it deserves a 10.
Story, gameplay and graphics aren't so perfect and orgasmic that it deserves a 10...IGN you are just...crazy.

Really... have you played it? Because it isn't out yet and it doesn't appear that you are a professional reviewer who has access to these games early