[QUOTE="FendersONLY"]I updated my review on GameSpot to go a little bit more in depth for the gameplay aspects of the game. Take a look at that, I think it does a little bit better job than the big website reviewers. What I can't understand is all the previews they were saying "Oh its built from the ground up for the PSP", So tell me why all these reviews are constantly comparing it to the consoles? Give my review a peek to see what you think.ston3henge
I think that people do that in part because it's a "recognized" franchise, meaning it was important to someone enough to green-light a sequel and thereforit deserves some credit for surviving in today's 3-minute shelf life marketplace. so they want to make sure that someone who was a fan of the console gets some perspective on the quality of the game when held up to the others in the series. If I remember correctly, "KZ: Liberation" was held up to it's PS2 big brother while in development ad then when it was put out, which I couldn't understand at the time nor do I now. You're right, in other words - It's a royally stupid thing to do.
I'm the king of weird or off-market games around here... and I've foud plenty to like in titles which were reviewed to be middling or poor games. I suppose beauty is truly in the eyes (and thumbs) of the beholder when it comes to consuming this artform. I think, too, that if a lot of these critics had to pay retail for the titles they review they would view things a bit differently in terms of fun-factor in a game. Most of us don't play a title we're not fundamentally interested in in the first place as far as genre and such, and if you liked the gameplay in "Liberation" then I could see getting into a game which is similar in nature like "40th Day", and though it might not be as good as "Liberation" it has entertainment value and it makes the time go by in the waiting room or lunch break and so we as fans look at a game differently than someone who is being assigned to and paid for a game review. They feel a responsibility (hopefully) to the reader to put the game in a familiar context so that the reader has a watermark to judge by what is said about a game... "if you played (x) then (y) looks like this from that perspective"... if you like this, here's what I thought of that... and all of it quite irrelavent when you answer the important question which is "What's the Fun Factor", ultimately. Or at least, that's how WE think it should go. But we're just fans and not struggling video game reviewers.
Fans aren't as hung up on certain minutia BS when it comes to scratching a genre itch.
Except for those pesky "Final Fantasy" nut-jobs.
KIDDING KIDDING. Don't hit the mod call-button, it was a JOKE... I've played several FF games and I understand the love.
That's why I said before, if you dig it (40th Day) Fenders, then that is swaying testimony and maybe I should give it a closer look... I respect the opinions around this forum a LOT more than I do a website or magazine feature on a game. Wasn't it you who posted a question recently as to if "LA Remix" was worth $20 while you waited for the next great new racing game to come out?
O___O i found a spelling mistake! Finally!
"and I've foud plenty"
found :D
Carry on
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