Metriod Prime 3 review confuses me =S

[QUOTE="Madsucktion"][QUOTE="XileLord"]

All credit to my friend Zaeryn for this one *I did not make this but zaeryn did* He points out gamespots flaws in the review

dirty_diaz

quoted so you all people will see it again.

Holy crap. Gamespot is....weird

I find the points raised by the TC completely valid. For you babies screaming damage control, get over it. Geezus, the world isn't built on "flop". This thread isn't about evading a flop, it's weeding out a badly reviewed game.

Heck, I was shocked by the seemingly amatuerish journalism that came into the review of MOH:A. I'm starting to doubt GS's commitment. Too bad IGN's navigation suchs.

The problem is they underscored Bioshock and thus forced their hand to underscore Metroid Prime 3.

You can't possibly give both games the same score. So if Bioshock is a 9, by default metroid is an 8.5.

If they had given Bioshock a 9.5 or a 10 they wouldn't have this problem.

Bread_or_Decide

Or maybe these games deserved the score they got.

[QUOTE="Bread_or_Decide"]

The problem is they underscored Bioshock and thus forced their hand to underscore Metroid Prime 3.

You can't possibly give both games the same score. So if Bioshock is a 9, by default metroid is an 8.5.

If they had given Bioshock a 9.5 or a 10 they wouldn't have this problem.

Ragnarok1051

Or maybe these games deserved the score they got.

It does bother me that Gamespotknocks thegame for being toeasy and there was different difficulty settings. I beat the game on the high difficulty setting and it was quite good very tough and required me to replay the bosses a few times but very fun.Firelore29

I love MP3 but time and time again I have to dispute people who whine about harder difficulty levels. I would be that %99 of all gamers play games on the normal, defualt difficulty level. Hell, I've been gaming longer than most people here have been alive and I can count on one hand the number of games I've bothered playing on a harder difficulty level...and it was almost always more for curiosity sake than because I actually cared. And I HAVE beaten a large number of games more than once, just not on a different difficulty level.

Games should be reviewed based on the standard gameplay settings that the vast majority of people will use.

Having said that, I kind sort of see both sides. It cetainly does sound like they are contradicting themselves. But I am a huge Metroid Fan and Metroid 3 does seem way more like a FPS than the action/exploration game that Matroid Prime was. I normally don't like FPS but something about Metroid 3 I love playing. It's fast and fun and the game really moves from an action or plot standpoint, but still keeps just enough of the exploration roots to be a Metroid title.Maybe the reviewer felt it wasn't close enough to the roots.

I don't know. I read the reviews and think they are fair. I love Metroid 3 more than any other Metroid game purely because of the sweet controlls and fast paced gameplay while still feeling like Metroid. I'd recommend it to anyone, even fellow FPS haters like myself.

Like a lot of recent reviews, the Prime 3 review is poorly written, overly "complainy" and self-contradictory. I really wish Kasavin would come back and show them how to write a critical yet insightful review.foxhound_fox

The problem is they underscored Bioshock and thus forced their hand to underscore Metroid Prime 3.

You can't possibly give both games the same score. So if Bioshock is a 9, by default metroid is an 8.5.

If they had given Bioshock a 9.5 or a 10 they wouldn't have this problem.

Bread_or_Decide

Agreed. As I said many times before, Bioshock is the better game because it's a fresh experience. Had Bioshock come out at the same time as the original MP, I believe the two would be the top runners for GOTY, with Metroid inching ahead, but because there have been two prime games, Bioshock wins hands down just because Corruption is still familiar territory.

GS rated this game in a fashion that suggests they're slaves to their own rating system.

Who cares, MP3C is awesome! :)

In my eyes, this isn't an issue of complaining about the 8.5 as much as it is complaining about the contradictions in the review.

So the game is a Great Sequel and is more of an FPS than the last two, but it still isn't much different than the last two? What is that supposed to mean? Somehow, both the similarities and the differences hurt the score... what the heck?

I kinda understand what they meant about the controls being good but not suiting the game. That said, if the controls weren't changed, points would have been taken off for being too similar. Also, I noticed how they said the game has "slick controls" but is "unresponsive" in some areas.

I don't care what the score is, but the contradictions are just weird.