your evidence speak for one and few individuals and not represent whole industry. my evidence is in numbers. 73 VS 1 in professionals and 107 vs 56 in user. it's you who brush off evidence not me. here http://www.metacritic.com/game/playstation-3/final-fantasy-xiiiMatthew94 said:That's why you turn the difficulty down, you don't say the game is bad just because you are bad.Arina Love said:yeh you judge whole industry just because of 1 bloke. yes if game is too difficult for even reviewer how play games all the time, points should be decreased. that's how i understand if games is not for me. not everybody is up for challenge. good game have balanced game difficulties for everyone.Matthew94 said:Here is your proof.Arina Love said:i was saying it not about Yahtzee i don't condenser him as serious reviewer nor i follow his advice in buying games. "Many reviewers never finish games" got any proof of that? one that got his head stuck in clouds is you. Reviewing business is there for a reason because pro-reviewers are better and analysing a game.Matthew94 said:Ha, see that's the thing.Arina Love said:Money = recognition in industry and if reviewer got himself noted by a site and was offered job then his opinion matters if not he just average bloke with opinion.Matthew94 said:So when Yahtzee was on Youtube his opinion was null and void?Arina Love said:They work for gaming sites most even for big ones, and what they write matters.Matthew94 said:What makes them professional.Arina Love said:they are professional reviewers and i've seen just as many people who liked this game. in fact there is more likes than dislikes in user review section on metactitic.Matthew94 said:What makes those 73 people that liked it (and got the game for free) any more credible than the hundreds of people I have seen so far online who constantly trash the game.Arina Love said:if you have prof that FFXIII reviewers biased than show it to us. until now i accept judgement of 73 pro reviews who gave it good score.Mythrignoc said:Yes, it was praised by reviewers.Arina Love said:Actually FFXIII is praised for it's innovative battle system pretty much in every review. stagnation =/= good, innovation is always interesting, even if it will turn off some people.Mythrignoc said:Arina Love said:well i really enjoyed battle system even before chapter 11 and i didn't find it repetitive more so some enemies and bosses are quite hare if you don't know what are you doing with shifts. for me other FF battle systems quite boring because i don't want to choose every character spell and skill it's very boring, i rather choose roles and control 1 character.Mythrignoc said:Yes, each one requires a certain strategy. That's my problem.Arina Love said:i actually didn't have problem with odin or other character bosses because they are NOT in game battle system. They require, each one of them, certain strategy to defeat them (it's even said in tutorial) even if it's just one combination, all other bosses in game are absolutely open to different strategies.Mythrignoc said:This is probably one of the crappier things about FFXIII.
The story is so well written, well spoken and thoroughly conceived that it is kind of worth it to make it all the way to the end, or at least chapter 11 like other people are suggesting.
The problem is that the gameplay is so horrendous and linear that it's hard to actually give a shit about the story when your focused on constantly dying from Odin because you can't power level and there's only one combination of paradigm shifts possible to kill him despite supposedly being allowed an open ended fighting system like Crystarium.
I say go for it, only for the sake of finishing the story. If the gameplay is just boring but you might be able to drudge through it, then have at. But then again, if the gameplay is so utterly annoying and frustrating and boring that you feel compelled to toss this game in a grinder, then maybe this isn't the game for you.
Final fantasy has always been linear with it's exploration but entirely open with it's combat, you could defeat enemies however the hell you wished to.
In FFXIII, until chapter eleven, this is not true. Even if you have some freedom to beat a boss with your own custom paradigms and stuff, the fact that you have a limited crystarium grid until you beat the game makes the combat so much more repetitive and boring.
Problem with that concept is that the former system is what's boring to most people and the latter system, the one you find boring, is actually the trademark of final fantasy games. It's what people come to expect when BUYING a final fantasy game.
We all know THEY aren't biased in any way :rollseyes:
What makes them better than the average game player, what makes their opinion so special.
Why did his opinion suddenly gain greater significance when money came into the picture?
Yahtzee never got onto the escapist because of what he said, it's because he injected comedy and used the simply animations which were entertaining. But yet, you automatically say he is somehow better than everyone else because he gets money for games he spends less than a week playing.
Many reviewers never finish games but you say they are more credible than the average game.
Clearly your head is in the clouds.
http://www.dualshockers.com/2010/03/17/what-exactly-is-jim-sterling-reviewing-not-much-apparently/
Better at analysing a game?
Explain how? All I ever see it the same as any other person, complete with the same flaws. Look at IGN and the games they decrease the score on because the game got too difficult for them.
So I give you proof and you brush it off? I can tell you won't listen to anyone with anything other than your viewpoint.
Go ahead, continue thinking reviewers are divine beings and their word is law and they aren't just normal people who you occasionally use to get a gist of what a game is like.
Anyway, here is yet more evidence to prove my viewpoint. Prove... Hey! That's the one thing you have NEVER did, you just spouted things and expected me to say you were right. At least I backed up my claims.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2010-08-13-zampella-reviewers-should-finish-games
User score distribution: it's 1099 vs 217