I've been around these parts for more than 6 years, under 2 names. I've seen my fair share of hyped games succeed and fail in the reviews catagory. I must say though, I am at a loss for whats been going on here the last year. It's making me wonder wether the only distinguishable aspect of this website now compared to then is the URL.

I'm not knocking either GTA4 or MGS4, I love GTA4 and find that it may infact have a bottomless pit of things to do. I've not yet played MGS4 though like all things MGS, it's probably pretty good. The fact is, how are these games achieiving such high scores on this site so "effortlessly?" Is it all in the payment for advertising, or maybe its the clear degradation of gamespots reviewes. Could it be that these two games are really "that" good?

All I do know is that Gamespot is not what it used to be, for better or worse. It makes me wonder what games would've been a 10 under this new approach to reviewing...