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I mean I'm pretty liberal and nothing is stopping the kid's parents from getting them the game anyway. Might even allow the parents to bond with their kids more by getting themselves involved in their hobby.
I can't remember having this much fun since Pete Wilson crammed a whole bunch of stupid shit onto the books in his last year. Including changing the OT rules (after 40 hours in a week instead of 8 in a day and 40 per week). Oh and encouraging the electricity deregulation and then blaming the subsequent problems on Grey Davis which led to the farce that was the recall election...
You know what? California probably would be better off if it just fell into the ocean... Of course, it'd take everything with it.
Do not engage the Watermelons.
Its already going to fall off, as prophecised by John Carpenter and the Books of Snake Plisken.
See also: the fact that books have zero ratings and society seems to be just fine (although I have a tragic story involving children's items from working at the library)
You guys realize there are a crapload of video game studios in California, right? :P
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To be fair, books don't have pictures :P Also, no one reads anymore. But certainly there have been issues with books in the past - hence all the talk of "book burnings" throughout history.
Why would they do that when no one complains about it?
Really. I think the lack of book ratings has more to do with written literature being grandfathered in as far as society goes.
2. First Amendment. The law doesn't just ban obscene crap.
3. It doesn't ban games with a particular rating from being sold to minors. It bans "violent video games" from being sold to minors. Their definition: game in which the range of options available to a player includes killing, maiming, dismembering, or sexually assaulting an image of a human being. This would include the Sims.
4. The retardation of the law doesn't stop there. It will also require that "'violent' video games to bear a two-inch-by-two-inch sticker with a "solid white '18' outlined in black" on their front covers. That's over twice the size of the labels that currently adorn game-box covers and display the familiar Entertainment Software Ratings Board (ESRB) rating."
5. This shit would be considered unacceptable with movies. It shouldn't be considered acceptable with games.
Don't be silly. That is what an 89% is for. I tend to hate those kinds of lecturers.
The grading score for school already sucks. I don't see the reason to import a lot of the bullshit into reviewing games.
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And that is partially(mainly) their fault and somewhat the fault of their fans.
I remember the shitstorm that was caused on Gamespot when they game one of the Zelda games got a less than perfect score even though the review was pretty favorable.
And don't forget that whole thing with Kane & Lynch way back when.
That being said, it is basically selling out on their end. Since most review sites are more concerned about keeping fans(hits) and staying on good terms with publishers(usually the ones who pay the bills with ads) than having any real integrity.
Heck, why do you think smaller titles always get shitted on compared to bigger titles unless they're amazing. That's the hypocrisy that annoys me about the system more than anything.
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The problem isn't giving a game a less-than-perfect score. If they want to use a slightly different scale and reserve 9s and 10s for games that are supposedly truly great, there's nothing wrong with that. The problem is that they don't do that, and it's an inconsistency with themselves and with other review sites.
If every major site gives, I dunno, Prince of Persia an 8, Gears of War a 9, Mario Galaxy a 10, and Dark Void a 6, but the distribution for Zelda looks like 10-10-10-8-10-10, I think some incredulity is warranted. No matter which game it applies to.
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And that shows another problem with the number system to begin with. It's too focused on the score attached to the review than the review itself.
Like I said. The Zelda review was generally favorable, they just didn't think it was perfect like most of people reviewing it. And simply because it got a 8.5 instead of a 9.5 that was some great travesty.
The four star system tends to work better for movies because since the numbers are so close together it forces the reader to pay more attention to what the reviewer is saying.
There is a big different between a 2 star movie that's actually 2.2 stars and a 2 star movie that is 2.8 stars. But since their both rated 2 stars the reader has to pay more attention to what the person is saying.
Steam ID : rwb36, Twitter : Werezompire,
I mean they gave Fable 2 a 10/10.
>_>;
<_<;
Ah well, new thread.
http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showthread.php?p=15625909#post15625909
Point taken. Maybe it was just me, but I found Fable 2 horrendously unfun. Looked pretty though.
Steam ID : rwb36, Twitter : Werezompire,
It was beautiful no question. But so easy it is hard to even classify it as a game. I have a serious love\hate thing happening with Fable 2. It was not a 10/10 game tho.
Sounds like the same nervous assholes who freaked out about MGS4 "only" getting a 9.8, and not being regarded as the second coming of Christ.
http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showthread.php?p=15625909#post15625909
Quit rushing people
Actually, I'm not sure it was ever good, just better than the majority. Also, it was before the rise of the internet led to the obselecence of print media.