Famitsu sucks

[A Black Falcon]

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

Then why do you judge games based on, as far as I can tell, just the score so often?

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.

OOH, you read SEVERAL REVIEWS! GREAT sample to decare that they have badly written and scored reviews on, yup!

Also... that first paragraph reads to me "I look at scores a lot. I also read some of the review, but not all of it, and then judge the review on this badly flawed sampling of what it says". Sure gives me reason to listen to you complain about another score that is "too low". Yup.

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.

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.

Uhh... you base opinions of games more on previews and news than on reviews? Are you sane at all?

Not even remotely sensible. Reviews are FAR, FAR better sources of accurate info about how a game actually plays than anything else short of playing it yourself... you can't judge games based on news and previews! Previews are innacurate and forgive games their faults in hopes they will be fixed...

Oh, and no decent review would say "F-Zero is futuristic racer. Here's some stuff from the manual and my dumb comments". Sorry. And this one doesn't. You just completely misrepresent it to suit your version of the facts... because its a well written review, its just got a (IMO) wrong opinion of the gameplay fun factor and graphics of the game. But that's okay, because they explain both well enough for me to see that those aren't things I'd see as problems and indeed F-Zero X is a great game.