I just got home from school and today is the first day of my last semester in college and hopefully I will graduate. Can't think of any more things to say coz i'm pretty tired my brain is really not working properly right now...
Can't wait to find a decent job and finally afford to buy things that I want to buy like the PS3, 360 and DS, gues I have to wait a few more months and just have to study real hard.
grrrrrrrrrrrr.........I wana go to sleep but Im still not sleepy
Lately I have been thinking about game reviews and how confusing it has become. And after sometime of meditating I came up with this kind of review setting.You see most gaming sites review games by dividing it into categories such as graphics, sounds, gameplay, etc. I have no problem with that kind of setttin as a matter of fact I prefer that kind of review what I don't like about it is that I think most gaming sites give those categories equal weight which I think is wrong. Gameplay is not equal to graphics nor graphics is not equal to sounds. So I develop this kind of review system, each category should be given a specific percentage in the overall score of the game. And this is how it goes:
1. Gameplay = 35% - gameplay is probably the most important aspect of a game on second thought IT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT! so i believe it is just right to give this category a very high percentage.
2. Visuals = 25% - better visuals makes a game more fun and more immersive but we must always remember graphics is not everything.
3. Sounds = 10% - the same with visuals, the sound of the game contribute to its sense of realism and fun factor but most of the time when I start playing games I barely notice the music and sounds of the game. (at least consciously)
4. Lifespan = 20% - i really like a good game to last a long time so replay value is somewhat important to a game, though really long games that tends to be boring and repetitive is a no no for me. But nevertheless a game that plays great is still a game that plays great even if it is 5hrs long.
5. Story = 10% - who cares if it has a crappy story as long as it plays great and you are having fun with it.
35% + 25% + 10% + 20% + 10% = 100%!!!
so for example i will review MEtal Gear 3 : Snake Eater this is how I am gonna review it:
Gameplay = 97 * 35% = 33.95
Visuals = 95 * 25% = 23.75
Sounds = 90 * 10% = 9
Lifespan = 90 * 20% = 18
Story = 100 * 10% = 10
TOTAL SCORE = 94.7 (just round it off) 95
so there you have it.
(This is just an opinion of mine)
:)
Lately I haven't been playing games haven' touch my PS2. Xbox, and PSP for months (My psp spent months inside the car) but now I want to spend time with games again (i just finished Shadow of the Colossus about two or three weeks ago and starting playing God of war 2 again). But right now my main focus is on my PSP I sarted playing games on it again and how i miss touching my PSP again and have millions of my finger prints on it. I did not only played games in it but I also spent time putting stuufs in it like themes. (themes are really cool!) and I also changed the font of my PSP to same font of Walt Disney (You know how I can do that.lol) The PSP is a really cool piece of technology its like a portable media center and i am really realy loving it. Right now i am playing lots of games on my psp such as Megaman poweredup, Lumines (what a difficult game), Killzone Liberation, Loco Roco (this game is just plain fun), Wipeout Pure and Tekken dark Resurrection.
BTW if somebody ever read this can you help me because i don't know how to post my now playing games, i tried clicking now playing but I dont know where to put it. Pls help ThankS! :)
i live in a country where piracy is like a way of life. You can find vendors selling pirated cds and dvds almost every where. I have to admit that I buy pirated games and movies, my entire PS2 games collection are all pirated copies and so are my xbox games and many of my psp games ( i have three original psp games). My dad also likes to buy pirated dvd movies, he never buys originals. So our house is filled up with stacks and stacks of pirated dvd movies and games, its like police can raid our house and could easily arrrest us for hundreds of evidences can be found, we are guilty of supporting piracy. Now they say piracy supports terrorism and other crimes and to be honest I do think that is a fact cause I know someone who knows how it works but unfotunately my family is not fortunante enough to have lots of extra cash to spend on originals. the price difference between a pirated and an original is just to high, like original dvd's would cost 40 bucks around here while a pirated one would only cost a dollar!!! I can buy forty pirated dvd for the price of just one original dvd. but now i am thinking of buying a ps3 which is as of now is piracy proof and I have decided that as soon as I get my PS3 i will stop supporting piracy and i will vow not to buy another pirated game whether it be dvd movies, or ps2,xbox, psp games ever again because i just realize that the very reason why computer games, movies, software and hardwares prices here in our country is so much higher than others is because piracy is so huge here that companies are afraid to invest here. I never heard of the PS2,ps3,xbox, xbox360,gamecube, and wii being officialy launched here, though they are widely available in here i think all of them are just imported by the store owners hence they can price it at higher cost sometimes even double the cost. i really hope our situatiion here will change eventually. And again after i buy my PS3 i will in piracy no more! :)
Its actually really interesting for me to know how do Gamespot review games. Do they have individuals who specialize in certain game genre and have them review games within the scope of that genre? or do they just pick at random who will review the game. Okay I actually have no doubt about the quality of Gamespot's review but with the recent incident (Ratchet and Clank=7.5) it made me think. Most review sites over the net gave it a 9/10 although some gave it 8-8.5 and gamespot is the one who gave it the lowest score. i know we have different opinions but I really think a 7.5 for R&C is pretty damn low. I have to admit I never played the game and just basing my opinion on gameplay videos that i had seen. And what i saw was a really georgous game. I am no fan of the franchise as a matter of fact I only played Up your arsenal which is really fun I can easily give it an 8.5. I just couldn't believe it that gamespot gave it a 7.5. other games scored pretty much the same in gamespot and other sites such as HL2, Heavenly Sword, lair etc, but how come the review of R&C is so different from other sites than here in gamespot?? I am not accusing Gamespot of being biase I am just really curious....
Well I guess the most simple and acceptable answer to that is that we have diferent opinions and despite the questions going aropund my head right nowi still trust Gamespot and really do believe that they are not biase. Ratchet just got really unlucky..
If only i am filthy rich then I would have bought an Xbox 360 and Playstation3 on the launch day even if they cost a lot more here but i have to face the reality that I belong to a middle class family who doesn't have enough money to buy whatever we want unless we save for it. So here I am drooling in envy whenever i see a game that i would love to play on a next gen console. I am currently saving money to buy a PS3 and right now I have a whopping $200 and I am planning to sell my XBOX(grrr I should not have bought that damn thing it was not really worth it, though I had fun playing KOTOR and Fable). I could sell my xbox for $150 or even $200 if I get lucky and I will have a $400. Unfortunately PS3s here cost $600 so im still $200 short and not to mention I still have to buy games for it which cost around $100 here(though I can get it much cheaper from playasia and ebay) an also have to buy an Component HD cable(we have a big old Sony Bravia CRT TV which is 1080i capable but don't have an hdmi port). So i guess i have raise $1000 in order to enjoy my ps3. Yeah just $800 away from my dream.
things I should not have asked my parents to buy me:
1. A new desktop PC which cost $1300 and i cant even play new games on it because it has crappy video card oh actually it has no graphics card! it ahs an intel graphic accelrator which is really really bad!
2. An Xbox; I was dying to get my hands on the original xbox when i first saw it but after I already have it i realize that my PS2 is still a lot lot lot better because I enjoyed and still enjoying games on it, while my xbox now is collecting dust.
can't think of anything else as of now;
Grrr I should have ask my parents to buy me a PS3 rather than those two pieces of crap and now my parents doesn't want to buy me because according to them I already have a PS2, Xbox, and PSP and that I they don't see any diiference with the PS3. I tried convincing them that it is much much better because its bluray its HD blah blah but it didn't work. So I guess I have to save up to buy one.
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