Famitsu sucks

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Wow.

You don't actually read reviews, you just look at the scores?

That explains everything about why you hate Gamespot (and PC Gamer) and why I like it... because I like it because their reviews are BY FAR better written and more professional than IGN's reviews. Not about the scores. Its really about the quality of the written reviews. Which is much higher at Gamespot than it is at IGN.

It also explains liking 3 or 4 short reviews over one.

It is also very, very stupid.

Gah, you are such an idiot. I don't just look at scores, but I don't usually read entire reviews for games unless I'm unsure about them. I'd rather make up my own mind on a game.

I have read several Gamespot reviews and they are not nearly as good as you think they are. Most of their reviews basically just repeat the game's instruction manual and go into too much detail about simple parts of the game. Basically they just try to fill as much space as they can in order to fool stupid people into thinking that their reviews are smart and well-written.

Sure, but what I was saying is that they don't have the space to really explain the game, which is what you should be basing your analysis of the review on -- not on the score. The score is just that person's arbitrary decision of quality which you will almost inevitably disagree with, one way or the other.

I look into games before they come out so I already know all there is to know about them, unless it's something like Metroid Prime where I want to know as little as possible so that I can be surprised. Long-winded reviews are only really useful if you know very little about a game and are having a difficult time deciding whether or not to get it. I visit gaming sites on a daily basis so I usually don't need any extra info from a review.

And PC Gamer gave Postal 2 a 7.9. But not having read those reviews I will not judge them at all... because you CANNOT and SHOULD NOT ever judge a review by its score. That is just stupid!

No shit, Sherlock. Perhaps you SHOULD READ what I write instead of MAKING ASSUMPTIONS. That is just STUPID!

http://www.gamespot.com/n64/driving/fzero10/review.html

Oh, I certainly agree that "it doesn't have a soul" is bad reasoning. But if you read the review you'd see that it says that people like me would love it.

If that was a 2-paragraph review there wouldn't be room for that kind of detail and I'd go off annoyed at the stupid reviewer. But because of the fact that they do go into more depth that is not the case.

The only reason why you'd need the review to be longer than two paragraphs is if you don't know anything about the game. I don't need to know that F-Zero is a futuristic racer that's really fast because I already know that. I just want to know how much the reviewer liked it.