Are Today's Games Good or Are Gamespot Reviews getting less generous?

just asking....i haven't taken the plunge yet into the current of era of gaming because the reveiws for a lot of the next gen games haven't been very good not to mention all the hardware issues and sku changes. now by no means do i consider gs the gospel of video games but i do use their reviews as a guide along with other sites and publications to gauge whether this would be a game i would be interested in purchasing. but lately the reviews for some games that had be really hyped either totally bombed (Lair) or were just meh (stranglehold).

on a whole do any of you feelthat the games of this generation are not as good as gamershad hoped?

It's still way too early to say I mean the PS3 or the Wii aren't even a year old; but yet we've seen games like GeoW, Bioshock, LOZ: TP, Super Paper Mario, Motorstorm, VF5 etc.

I think todays games are good just not as great as everyone was hyping them to be (or GSpotters at least) but ask this question here ina years time the responses will be very different ;)

I think todays games are good just not as great as everyone was hyping them to be (or GSpotters at least) but ask this question here ina years time the responses will be very different ;)

KingKoop

I dislike hypes because a game that gets hyped too much is very likely to disappoint you - even if it is really good, it's probably less than you expected. And it's definitely to early for judgements about this game generation. Lets wait some years and see how todays games hold up then. A real classic game is playable and fun no matter how old it is.

I think the problem lies in your interpretation of GameSpot's review scores. Stranglehold got a 7.0. That means it's good.LordAndrew

that's true. it did rate higher than fair. but i thought it would rate higher given all the hype of it being a john woo game and chow yunfat as thecharacter but that's just onereveiwer at gs. if i played it i mayfind it to be better,,,. or worse.

I think it's pretty obvious that both GameSpot and IGN have significantly different review scores than they did 5 or 10 years ago. It wasn't too long ago when just about every title was guaranteed a higher score at IGN and a lower score here. That's no longer the case, and I think it's just a matter of GS getting slightly more lenient and IGN getting slightly more strict...probably in the face of reader feedback that stated the obvious.

In general, I think the majority of GS critics are still harsher than most other sites, but not to the extent they once were.

Yes, Gamespot's reviews have become more harsh lately. games that are obviously superior in nearly every way to games in the same series, or similiar games, are rated much lower. Just look at metroid Prime 3: Corruption, the controls are an incredible change to the series and it's not worse in any way compared to the previous games in the series, yet it still got an 8.5 compared to the 9.7 of the original or the 9.1 of Echoes (which is quite inferior to Corruption). Halo 2 for the PC got 7, Twilight Princess got 8.5. Seems like you have to redefine a genre nowadays to get a 9 or higher from Gamespot.

It's not the games that gotten worse, it's us that has gotten higher expectations.ExiledHero

i do agree with you here....

GS' new review system is very mediocre; alot of people pointed out that 7 is now defined as "average" and below is just miss. I currently disagree with all of GS' reviews - due to the fact there is an unusual bias towards Microsoft platform games. Flame me if I'm wrong but the error list goes too far for an mainstream gamer and I myself, a hardcore gamer find the reasons they make to not purchase games stupid.....so yeah......loopy_101

You are wrong. If there is bias I must have completely missed it in their recent reviews.

And of course, you are encouraged to make your own decisions on whether or not you want to play a game.