official rating source

Through option four lies madness.

I voted for Gamespot. Not that I really "go" by their opinion (or by anyone's opinion exclusively), but we are indeed in System Wars in gamespot. It's kinda the purpose.

Through option four lies madness.

I voted for Gamespot. Not that I really "go" by their opinion (or by anyone's opinion exclusively), but we are indeed in System Wars in gamespot. It's kinda the purpose.

Grive

This pretty much sums it all up.

Metacritic.

It doesn't produce its own scores, it averages out everyone else's so, while every reviewer reviews one or two games unfairly in the opinion of many, metacritic provides an average which shows how lots of critics rate a game rather than one.

Gamespot. The old Gamespot regime shall not fall!

:P

But seriously, if you're on Gamespot forums, you're going to use Gamespot scores to decide whether a game 'flops' or not.

@donwoogie-

Your sig is awesome. O.o

Gamespot. The old Gamespot regime shall not fall!

:P

But seriously, if you're on Gamespot forums, you're going to use Gamespot scores to decide whether a game 'flops' or not.

@donwoogie-

Your sig is awesome. O.o

nintendofreak_2

Lol, cheers mate, if you want, I can show you how I did it?

Oh, and, tbf, I use gamespot for reviews. But for finding scores generally I use metacritic. I only wish GS has more video reviews. Since Alex, Jeff, Ryan and Jason left, the number of video reviews have understandably dropped. Kotaku says they are going on a massive employment binge atm though :P

Lol, cheers mate, if you want, I can show you how I did it?

donwoogie

Anyway, I don't use reviews when I'm buying games. I ask other people about it or buy games that I know I will like.

This is what I usually do, when I'm interested in a game, I usually want to see a few good reviews to sway my decision for purchasing these games that cost up to $60 bones.

Gamespot boards need to use GS reviews.

Alot of them I dont agree with (Lost Odyssey comes to mind), but that makes for a good debate among the posters here.

once again:

if you dont like the gc reviews LEAAAAAAAVEEEEEEEEE GC are a more reliable source review than your weak trolling topic
dgo71102244

So basically your ignorant? The whole point of system wars is people fighting over which system is better with the better games. Your telling me that we should use 1 persons review to decide if a game flops or not? You never see Microsoft or sony referring to Gamespot in thier keynotes but they always use metacritic or gamerankings. Also many companies give bonuses to employees if the game they make scores higher than a certain percentage on gamerankings or metacritic.

heres the links

Wall Street Journal Article http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB119024844874433247-5Lxg_ED6VC_nqgeX0XZ2GZLpzxo_20071020.html

Microsoft GDC 2008 (skip to 10 mintues) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCkKC7TUo3U

Don't you think your view is a little narrowminded?

Come on system wars we need to decide once and for all!

For System War it only makes Sence to go By Gamespot... But, Its not like its a big deal or anything.RogueGoose

Its a big deal to me. I spend my day thinking about how cool it will be the next time cows get owned. Im a lemming and i think we should use metacritic personally. Just because we are on gamespot doesn't mean we have to use gamespot reviews as the law of the land.

[QUOTE="RogueGoose"]For System War it only makes Sence to go By Gamespot... But, Its not like its a big deal or anything.gink101

Its a big deal to me. I spend my day thinking about how cool it will be the next time cows get owned. Im a lemming and i think we should use metacritic personally. Just because we are on gamespot doesn't mean we have to use gamespot reviews as the law of the land.

You can argue any way you want if you Put up your own Facts about it... Reviews are Just Opinion... You will never truly be able to claim Ownage in the Gaming World... If you try to say something bad about sony I could always bring up somthing just as bad about MS or Nintendo...

I dont think we should have to solely use gamespot's reviews. Yes we're on their forums, but that doesnt mean I agree with what they say. We're already using their website, so I doubt they really care if we agree with their opinions. If we're on here to have intelligent debates on which games and systems are better in our eyes, then we should look at the majority of opinions and not just one. Gamespot provides the arena (which is awesome of them, mega props!) now its up to us to find our weapon's of choice.dimebag667

i completely agree. We are the community so we decide what is the fairest way to officially evaluate games.