skyward sword

[rtil]

you can't please everyone

[trent bortknob]

i want to play it but i don't have a wii

maybe my little brother will get it for christmas and i can play it while i'm in PA

[trent bortknob]

the thing is i didn't like playing twilight princess on the wii because the controls sucked. swinging the sword was a bitch and made it less fun

i preferred the gamecube version, and with the way nintendo is right now i know that there probably won't be an alternative version of the game so i don't know if i'll even want to play it at all.

[trent bortknob]

which sucks because i love zelda games

[trent bortknob]

they're the only game series i've ever really gotten into

[trent bortknob]

fuck

[emanhattan]

i think it is very possible that the control scheme will fuck up the way i feel about this game. but those who have played it so far all seem to enjoy it except for this gamespot reviewer. and i agree with gamespot ratings most of the time... im gonna have to wait to find out and judge if the review is legit

[cipher]

yeah honestly, every review I've seen so far, spare that one has been very positive.

Maybe the reviewer had an anti-zelda bias or something

[naturally]

http://www.zeldainformer.com/2011/11/gamespots-tom-mcshea-speaks-about-his-skyward-sword-review.html

[rtil]

and the end of the day though who really gives a shit about what reviewers say - if you're a fan of a franchise, you're probably gonna buy its sequels regardless of what some guy on the internet has to say about his personal experience with the game.

[naturally]

i agree but i still find it interesting to see other people's opinion on a game i'm going to buy. if i asked someone 'hey is ----- a good game?' and they say it's terrible it won't effect my interest in it, but i'll ask anyway because i like to see why someone didn't like it, or rather why they did.

i don't like the idea of giving a game a score though, which is why i like yahtzee's stuff.

[BluPhoenix]

the fuck

http://www.gamespot.com/the-legend-of-zelda-skyward-sword/reviews/the-legend-of-zelda-skyward-sword-review-6345839?tag=summary%3Bread-review

THE FUCK

Average Reaction to GameSpot

[Gladius]

a good work can defend itself from criticism

[Blordow]

Isn't this a story before all the other zelda games took place? can't remember if I heard that from somewhere or not.

I will be picking it up as soon as it's out, can't wait

[Sinitron]

and the end of the day though who really gives a shit about what reviewers say - if you're a fan of a franchise, you're probably gonna buy its sequels regardless of what some guy on the internet has to say about his personal experience with the game.

well i'm getting heart of the swarm even though i know the story will be just as bad or worse than wings of liberty, but i'll still cringe when i see reviewers praising it when it has blatant flaws and problems

[ZennyPLUS]

rtil's right, i'll still buy it. And you made a good point with that other article, thanks man. I'm a reviewer and regular on Gamespot but this is news to me. Not surprising, as of late, GS has been giving out some lower scores compared to other major review sites.

[naturally]

this game is amazing.

i'm only 5 hours in and maybe i'm just blowing smoke for now but i know for sure it's my favourite zelda game ever. everything about it feels great to me and sucks me in like no other zelda game was capable of doing. the story really feels like a story this time around. that may sound offensive to people who really enjoy zelda but i always felt the stories in all of them were generally uninteresting. they didn't really give me a lot of initiative to explore and find out what happens at the end. the motion controls are really cool, but sometimes i do find myself wishing i could just press a button instead of waving my arm around. i feel like this is the only game on the wii that really uses the whole 'motion' thing properly. actually i think it's the only game ever that does it properly.

i know i shouldn't really write about how awesome i think this game is until i finish it, but it is definitely worth the buy.

[CoolDrMoney]

for those of us strapped for cash, I really try to choose games that only score above something for my hardearned money. I use it as a guideline. However if I hear and see enough good things about a game, I will grab it.

Most things by Suda 51 are exempt from this rule. I am a blind fanboy of his

[emanhattan]

if a game doesnt score at least 8.5 it does kinda scare me away from buying it. but ive enjoyed a lot of games that score below 8.5 like voodoo vince, munchs oddysee and cell damage.

and yeah suda 51 is boss

[Sinitron]

reviewers are fags

go to metacritic, check reviews, compare to user feedback, look at all the negative user reviews and compare to more positive ones (do they bring up the same points?) then make a decision based on all these factors