Seriously, kotick would sell his mother because he "is related to her which should be a reason to profit from her", just like xboxlive exists only because of call of duty, right?

In german, there is a word called Kot, which pretty much sums this person up. Go to www.dict.cc and type "kot" and you'll see what i mean.

That's great, since you can whine and laugh at the same time about him.

It is important the console "has enough room to breathe", meaning there isnt any wall that blocks the airflow.

I know, it's just the way it works, but being a gamer, it hurts to see unjustified reviews of "smaller" games in contrary to the "bigger" games. It's like they expose the smaller games by focusing too much on the negatives. The bigger games are all reviewed as "they have flaws but dont even mention them its perfect". Hope you see what I mean?

Now that I think about it, I think review sites give the score also depending on what date they get it. If they get it earlier, they'll get more readers and more hits, if they get it later, nobody will read it anyway. If they don't get it automatically and review it sometimes afterwards, dont even bother.

Oh and I think the .5 is basically for the sake of the scoring sheme. if you can score between 1-10, not lower than 1, not higher than 10, the exact middle is 5.5. If you have 5 different scores overall, you need even more diversified scores. My system is

lowest = 1.0

low = 3.0

middle = 5.5

high = 7.5

highest 9.5

5 scores overall, but you need 1.0, 3.125, 5.25, 7.375 and 9.5 which is too much, but .5 is acceptable for the die-hard reviewers.

Great to have someone agree with. Oh and nice user level, DJ Lae x) You must have been something like 5-10 years on the site regularly.

Just ignore all reviews of the press and you'll be fine. Trust me. I try to find reviews on gamespot, amazon or somewhere else where USERreviews are made. I usually read reviews of the press only to find out again and again that they're either advertisement (ads are lame and to be ignored) or completely useless. Worst reviews here on Gamespot for example Suikoden 2 got like a 7, Legend of Dragoon the same, Tales of Destiny 4.9 (!!), especially JRPGs are the best example why you shouldnt listen to gamespot or others, but I could go on forever. Deadly Premonition scored a 2 on IGN, Destructoid gave Ass Creed 2 a 4.5 while giving Deadly Premonition a 10 (can you imagine what I did when I saw that? yes, leaving the site).

Need more examples? FarCry 2 (you can argue about that), Advent Rising (seriously, the first sentence of the review indicates that the review is useless - "its not worth your time" you really really say that only if the game is completely broken or bad like Superman 64. 6.3 while users give it a 8.0), LostWinds (5.5 while users gave it a 8.2)

I'll say it again - just ignore the press and read user reviews. Not all users are gods, but there are some reviews that are very informative and not "xyz is a good game because i liked it end of story" reviews, you know what i mean.

If games like LostWinds score much lower than big budget games like FarCry 2 or Prince of Persia titles, you know something isnt right. Heck, even Kingdom under Fire Circle of Doom scored a 6 which is higher than the above mentioned LostWinds.

Also, review scores are much less important than your taste. The more games you buy, the more you know what you like and therefore you can judge better by reading an informative review.

And youre right that a game that has the name "Halo" on it will at least score a 9 if not higher. Microsoft's games in general can't be given a bad score. Or are there any with a bad one?

Seriously, read the conclusion of the Trine review. It says "overpriced". You'd never read a review of halo or god of war stating it is "overpriced".

If you're looking for an open world rpg, try RISEN if you haven't already, but not on the 360! (its also available for PC) It's by the same people who made Gothic I, II and III (I know III has its problems but Risen is more like Gothic II).

I'm not a psychologist or anything, but if you mean that you can turn from a peaceful minded into a berserker, I have to disappoint you. Sure, you can argue over anything that can't be proven, but hey, it takes a lot more than playing games with violence to kill people. I hope I understood your question?

Why does nobody mention Blue Dragon? I think it would be appropriate since it's far from difficult.

Timeshift.. I wanted to like it but honestly, the feature of time-manipulation was the only thing that I enjoyed and that just isn't enough. It was neither bad nor good. Even if you're just looking for some mindless action you could do better.

Viva Pinata - read my review, you have to appreciate it's cuteness and mustn't expect blood and gore.

It all depens on what you want to download or put onto the hard drive. If you want to install many full retail games, buy the 250 version. Unless you tell us what you want to put on it, we can't tell you more.

I have read a lot of reviews and I've heard many people complain about "funny" (not in a good way) voice acting and that you're far too quickly too strong for every enemy in the game, even the last boss. Oh and don't expect state of the art graphics. However, I'm sure that's not all what's wrong with it. I think it's also rather short for an rpg.