Why Gameinformer absolutely disgusts me:

ya i have it right here it says '

when you compare a shallow interactive game like animal crossing city folk to a game like gta iv or fable 2 theres no comparision that is bull , they are sony /ms fans , thats all ,just like almost every review site including meta critic

they all suck , they all especally magazines hardly cover wii games look at gamespot, how they didnt even bother rating many wii games, or under rate them so what if the console isnt as powerful, we know that it isnt, we aint expecting it to

and yet they give games like animal crossing a 7.5

but at the same time give gta iv mgs4 a 10 out of 10 ,

I don't read gaming magazines anymore and barely ever take review sites seriously, especially when they review Wii games.

I trust the gamer consensus more accurately. Wii games cannot avoid being compared to HD console games unfortunately.

Grand Theft Auto is a game about killing people. It's about stealing cars and causing extreme havoc. blankshore

That's exactly what Grand Theft Auto is NOT about

It's better to know about what they're comparing it to before you fly off the handle

They aren't comparing the gameplay they are comparing the two multilayer modes that both games have in common where u and a bunch of friends get together and interact with each other in a town/city. They are in their right to do so because in GTA u do have more player interaction. Animal crossing when ur playing with someone or by ur self feels very much the same. You cant really do anything game wise togeather. Playing animal crossing with friends isnt very different from playing by your self new knew modes added, no little mini games u can all play togeather. Dont get me wrong im fine with that. I love inviting friends over to fish and..show off but the games interactivity almost doesnt exsist. webbut

[QUOTE="blankshore"]Grand Theft Auto is a game about killing people. It's about stealing cars and causing extreme havoc. Jaysonguy

That's exactly what Grand Theft Auto is NOT about

It's better to know about what they're comparing it to before you fly off the handle

IIRC, both paper mario games on the N64 and GC got 5.0's and 6.0's ........... i think this overshadows your complaint.nintendo-4life

really? dang. this over shadows everything else said here. there is no way they deserve that score.

IIRC, both paper mario games on the N64 and GC got 5.0's and 6.0's ........... i think this overshadows your complaint.nintendo-4life

[QUOTE="nintendo-4life"]IIRC, both paper mario games on the N64 and GC got 5.0's and 6.0's ........... i think this overshadows your complaint.clicketyclick

I don't read gaming magazines anymore and barely ever take review sites seriously, especially when they review Wii games.

I trust the gamer consensus more accurately. Wii games cannot avoid being compared to HD console games unfortunately.

[QUOTE="blankshore"]Grand Theft Auto is a game about killing people. It's about stealing cars and causing extreme havoc. Jaysonguy

That's exactly what Grand Theft Auto is NOT about

It's better to know about what they're comparing it to before you fly off the handle

no, thats pretty much what its about. you could argue that theres a story, but brawl having subspace emmissary does make it any less about getting together with friends to beat the each other to death. GTA has always had a fairly good story, but the core of the game play is this: your in a town, and you can do just about any thing you want to other people. shoot them, steal their cars, run other people over in their cars, whatever. an dont think im bashing GTA. the freedom to do what you want is the best part of the game.

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[QUOTE="blankshore"]Grand Theft Auto is a game about killing people. It's about stealing cars and causing extreme havoc. the_wet_mop

That's exactly what Grand Theft Auto is NOT about

It's better to know about what they're comparing it to before you fly off the handle

no, thats pretty much what its about.

And Mario is about curb-stomping rare species of turtle. There, now can we compare how player communication is handled?

ya i have it right here it says '

when you compare a shallow interactive game like animal crossing city folk to a game like gta iv or fable 2 theres no comparision that is bull , they are sony /ms fans , thats all ,just like almost every review site including meta critic

they all suck , they all especally magazines hardly cover wii games look at gamespot, how they didnt even bother rating many wii games, or under rate them so what if the console isnt as powerful, we know that it isnt, we aint expecting it to

and yet they give games like animal crossing a 7.5

but at the same time give gta iv mgs4 a 10 out of 10 ,

mariokart64fan

when you compare a shallow interactive game like animal crossing city folk to a game like gta iv or fable 2 theres no comparisionmariokart64fan

That's NOT what the reviewer said. Here's what he actually said:

When you compare the shallow ways you interact with the world in City Folk to a game like Fable II or Grand Theft Auto IV, there's no comparison.Matt Helgeson of Game Informer

Nintendo Power is the best.

GameInformer and has always been biased, with little-to-no coverage of wii & DS.

if you want a good magazine that covers all systems, go with EGM, or Gamepro.

here's a really funny news video from Gamepro's site, teasing Kid Icarus, Mother 3, and Mario Strikers fans:

http://www.gamepro.com/video/news/132616/gamepro-news-12-19-08/

I've always thought this was a crap magazine, but I was at a friends house today and he had the latest issue so I flipped through it. Absolute trash. But the thing that really made me ill was their review of Animal Crossing City Folk. They gave it a respectable 7.5, but in the last paragraph they compared AC to Grand Theft Auto- not kidding. This comparison of course makes absolutly no sense at all, but they said that "compared to Grand Theft Auto IV...the communication in Animal Crossing isn't very impressive." Now let's think about this for a minute here. Grand Theft Auto is a game about killing people. It's about stealing cars and causing extreme havoc. Animal Crossing is a game about nothing. It's about fishing, making friends with cute little animals, customizing your house and clothing. If I had to think of a game that was the exact opposite of GTA, it would be Animal Crossing. I'm not insulting either game- they're both great fun- but I just thought that this really showed the level of ignorance of that magazine. Obviously both games involve communication, but I can't believe it would even cross somebody's mind that Animal Crossing should have the same level of communication as a GTA game. It's like comparing apples to...a series of devestating felonies. Does anybody else think this is crazy or is it just me?blankshore

i dont like it.... BUT, IGN.com is WAAAAYYY worse when it comes to raitings. a good place would be THIS website, a magazine in my FAV, would be Nintendo Power

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[QUOTE="blankshore"]Grand Theft Auto is a game about killing people. It's about stealing cars and causing extreme havoc. the_wet_mop

That's exactly what Grand Theft Auto is NOT about

It's better to know about what they're comparing it to before you fly off the handle

no, thats pretty much what its about. you could argue that theres a story, but brawl having subspace emmissary does make it any less about getting together with friends to beat the each other to death. GTA has always had a fairly good story, but the core of the game play is this: your in a town, and you can do just about any thing you want to other people. shoot them, steal their cars, run other people over in their cars, whatever. an dont think im bashing GTA. the freedom to do what you want is the best part of the game.

No it's not, have you even played the game?

The entire game is about setting up a social interactions. In creating that social circle you may or may not need to kill someone and if you do kill someone means that everyone's perspective of you changes. Also every single kill you make in the game you NEED to make or the other guy kills you, there is never one attack in the game that is not self defense.

As for the "going around shooting and killing" that's all garbage. Yeah if you kill someone in the game you get arrested and have to go to jail.

If you're going to talk about the game play it first.

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Well actually I have played grand theft auto, sir. I'm not saying it doesn't have a story- in fact it has a good story- I'm just saying that it's a silly comparison. And you can't say that grand theft auto isn't about killing people and steeling cars. I mean that's where most of the fun comes from in that game.

I was just trying to prove a point- Gameinformer sucks

Nintendo Power is the best.

GameInformer and has always been biased, with little-to-no coverage of wii & DS.

if you want a good magazine that covers all systems, go with EGM, or Gamepro.

here's a really funny news video from Gamepro's site, teasing Kid Icarus, Mother 3, and Mario Strikers fans:

http://www.gamepro.com/video/news/132616/gamepro-news-12-19-08/

GI is great nintendo power is gotta be one of the most biased publications ive ever read they barely even try to be objective. NP is fox news of gamingwebbut

i'm not even gonna begin to say how untrue that is.

you're the only one who thinks that.

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Well actually I have played grand theft auto, sir. I'm not saying it doesn't have a story- in fact it has a good story- I'm just saying that it's a silly comparison. And you can't say that grand theft auto isn't about killing people and steeling cars. I mean that's where most of the fun comes from in that game.

I was just trying to prove a point- Gameinformer sucks

blankshore

Well, GameInformer disgusts me for the simple fact that it is made by Gamestop.

Its also worth mentioning that according to their crazy scale 7 is mediocre, so they pretty much said that it wasn't a good game.

Common sense would tell you to have 5 be mediocre, but, common sense isn't so common anymore, as they like to say.

I'm just saying that it's a silly comparison. And you can't say that grand theft auto isn't about killing people and steeling cars. I mean that's where most of the fun comes from in that game. I was just trying to prove a point- Gameinformer sucksblankshore

at least Animal Crossing has moral value in it and isn't a pathetic game that just taints our society.Darkmagcite