[QUOTE="MizFitAwesome"]
The #1 reason why the use of ratings is fail and why the cows follow along and can't form their own opinions. The review is made by a total stranger, that no one really knows the reviewers personal tastes as it pertains to his own. Using the same logic which movie is better Slumdog Millionaire or Dark Knight? Cows will tell you Slumdog Millionaire because more critics loved it, yet the movie isn't that great. Face reality cows, using the scores is the worst way to determine success because it's a total strangers opinion of the game. Renting is the best way because then you can tell if you like it and sales come in a distent 2nd. Trying to say Sony is somehow winning because the game is scoring high yet not selling is blind loyalty in its purest form. "I just bought the game because some total stranger told me so and I love it because the total stranger told me so.'
Alpha-Male22
Why are you saying stuff we already know to prove a point that doesn't exist?
We know the review is made by a total stranger. We don't have to know a reviewers personal tastes-- we can see how he feels about a game through the rating/review he gives it. And this isn't one reviewer we are talking about. When people look at ratings, they look at a mass average based on numerous scores. When there is a consistently good rating, one can point out REGARDLESS if an individual has personally played the game himself, that the game has redeeming attributes that many adhere to.
Why does a person have to know a reviewer personally anyway? And why look at one reviewer? Like I said, games are judged by an overall rating-- many people here care about GS because this is SW but everybody goes to many other sites to look at other ratings.
There is absolutely NO reason to attack just cows. EVERYBODY here uses scores to justify the greatness of a game. When someone is telling me about how great something like Gears of War is, do you really think I want to hear that it has great sales!? I mean seriously now MizFit-- I'd expect someone to tell me the game has received a great amount of critical acclaim. If a game like Okami were being recommended, do you really think that telling me it sold poorly is going to tell me ANYTHING about how the game is? Stating Okami's numerous great scores (NOT the score of one reviewer as you try to push in your little theory) is what's going to convince me that there is a good amount of people who enjoyed the game.
Sales is a pathetic thing to fall back to when trying to find out the quality of a game-- especially since reviews are a much more efficient, detailed, and informed way.
I don't understand your Slumdog/Knights comparison.
Cows aren't going to TELL you that--- wait let me stop right there. Cows are going to tell me Slumdog is great? Let's just attack people in general instead of attacking the cows. I know you have beef with them (get it?), but let's make sense of this without any hidden agendas.
If Slumdog gets great reviews by a whole bunch of people, I am going to think it's likely going to be great. And where does this leave Dark Knight by the way? That movie is great, dont you think? It's gotten a lot of great reviews, so by that, I am going to say that Dark Knight sounds great too... Where exactly are you going with this Slumdog/Dark Knight comparison again?
Let's set up a better example my friend:
Meet the Spartans is a horrid movie. It's gotten a lot of hateful reviews and it's been widely acknowledged as a total disgrace. It was #1 In Box Office. Am I to understand by your "Sales indicates quality" argument that this movie was GREAT!??
Really, now? Sure, great games do tend to have great sales-- but this isn't the movies, which has a much larger appeal to the average American by the way. When it comes to games like PS3 exclusives, you are trying to put down the game knowing full well that the console has the lowest sales this gen and the poorest advertising for its game (before the new "It Only Does Everything" ads).
No one said Sony is "winning" anything-- what do you even mean by that? It's such a vague statement and you seem defensive and insecure about cows being able to brag about the AAAE games more than anything else. Its scoring great games, and by statistical analysis, it is getting the most highest rated exclusives this year.
You know that is a fact, and you try to knock down sales despite the fact (like I have proven ealier) that you yourself have used ratings to point out the PS3 is falling behind the 360.
The fact that you use scores to draw a conclusion between comparing 360 software to PS3 software shows that you blindly go by numbers and reviews. You must obviously trust them to use them. By your own admittance, you are a blind fanboy who says games are great based on reviews.
I personally have no problem stating just that. I don't give personal experience but direct you to the personal experience of numerous others who have enjoyed the game.
Once again, sales prove nothing to the quality of a game-- only that it has a lot of sales. I'm sure you don't think Wii Fit is better than a host of games like Okami. At least I hope not.
Also, your pretty vague when describing sales. You stated earlier that you see PS3 games collecting dust in stores. First of all, I'm surprised you can notice the dust whe your standing in front of the cashier register... you must look pretty silly squinting at the dust collected on those PS3 games... anyways, you try to claim that sales indicate success of a game. It does-- but it doesn't state anything about quality. Assuming that sales matter to quality, why do you make the vague implication that Sony has bad sales? I know it doesn't have as much as something like Halo 3, but what games are you referring to that aren't "successful" due to sales? I'd like to really know. I know Valkryia Chronicles can be considered one, but I wonder if YOU have played it yourself, since your so keen on personally playing a game. Of course, since you like to use sales, this must mean a game like VC is an "unsuccesful" game, right?
Nope renting is still the #1 way to determine game quality because the person renting can determine if the game is quality based on his tastes, not blindly following what a reviewer tells him, which is what you cows keep shoving down everyones throats.Your continued poor attempts at spin are humourous at best...
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