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Son Of General Retro Discussion
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Ah fair enough, I actually like the styling of the US machine and carts (at least they're better suited to stacking!).
Another negative point about that Supaboy, bit trivial this but irritating all the same - the Start and Select buttons are reversed. Start is on the left rather than the right, wtf.
I actually like them too, not so much the carts but the console has a big tank look to it.
I noticed the button reversal in the vid you embedded too
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Ah fair enough, I actually like the styling of the US machine and carts (at least they're better suited to stacking!).
Another negative point about that Supaboy, bit trivial this but irritating all the same - the Start and Select buttons are reversed. Start is on the left rather than the right, wtf.
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Speaking of pricey...
iPad 3 is seducing me.....
and iNever owned an apple product in my iLife.
and iUsually spend more of iTime ranting about apple than praising them....
but...
iMean if the iDisplay was only 1080p I'd still be just as iImpressed...
but look at it, LOOK AT IT....
It's so iResolutionary,
I don't even know WTF a GUGGENHEIM is, but iWant one of those now too...
God damnit, what is happening to i!0 -
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The Great Chinholio wrote: »Samsungs new display will have it beaten in a couple months :pac:
Although the iPad is much better for magazines -_-
Tell me more about this new display.
Save me from the wrath that is apple communism!
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They should have given away the circle pad pro with RE Revelations free that would have been nice.:rolleyes:
It was if you preordered it from Zavi a couple of months ago
If you don't have it yet then just bite the bullet and give in. It's a must really. A big ugly black lump of must.
Didn't realize Kid Icarus was out so soon either. Pretty great as I've been looking for a new 3DS game to play after finishing RE.0 -
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The Great Chinholio wrote: »Havent really bought game magazines in years. Might read GamesTM in my friends if its lying around but thats really it. Anyway, bought RetroGamer since it was issue 100 and ye were all talking about it. I think I may have found my new monthly magazine. I basically took today off life to read it :pac:
It's great, the only magazine worth reading on games at the moment. Just finished the David Crane article which was really interesting.
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Retr0gamer wrote: »It's great, the only magazine worth reading on games at the moment.
Google Translation: Retr0gamerish to English:
'I still retain a bitterness towards the editorial team of Edge because their predecessors had the gall to give Gunstar Heroes a 6 almost two decades ago. I refute the inherent subjectivity of reviews and instead restate accusations of pretentiousness. Vis a vis, concordently'
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johnny_ultimate wrote: »Google Translation: Retr0gamerish to English:
'I still retain a bitterness towards the editorial team of Edge because their predecessors had the gall to give Gunstar Heroes a 6 almost two decades ago. I refute the inherent subjectivity of reviews and instead restate accusations of pretentiousness. Vis a vis, concordently'
Edge's recent 10/10 for skyward sword shows their review staff are still utterly useless. They either tear a game apart for its flaws, which I'm all for, or else completely gloss over them for no reason or criticism, Skyward Sword and Halo being good examples.
At least retrogamer gave it an incredibly low 97% :P
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Number ratings are the problem with reviews, in Edge and elsewhere. I actually find the Skyward Sword review quite convincing. While I don't agree with all of it, they do tend to refute the points worth refuting. While I'd say there are are few moments of unnecessary repetition, they do counter that with the suggestion that elsewhere the game makes extremely inventive use out of 'revisited' environments (and it does). It's not a perfect review - what is? - but I find little about it to take umbrage with. Their 7 review of Neverdead, however, maybe not
If they removed numbers entirely - which is where the contention usually boils down to (metacritic keyboard warriors rarely complain about the actual words) - it'd do massive favours for the magazine, where their 9 out of 10 times on-the-money reviews could speak for themselves. Indeed, the refusal of almost every single gaming source of note to do away with review scores is a barrier to a more sensible approach to game reviewing. Numbers matter little, words are far more important.0 -
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Numeric scores are basically reviews for the 'TLDR' crowd that sadly make up a contingent of games magazine readers (which sometimes makes me wonder why they bother to buy mags at all? possibly to look at the pretty pictures).Personally I think its been downhill since the days of the ZZap64 thumbs based scoring system.johnny_ultimate wrote: »Number ratings are the problem with reviews, in Edge and elsewhere. I actually find the Skyward Sword review quite convincing. While I don't agree with all of it, they do tend to refute the points worth refuting. While I'd say there are are few moments of unnecessary repetition, they do counter that with the suggestion that elsewhere the game makes extremely inventive use out of 'revisited' environments (and it does). It's not a perfect review - what is? - but I find little about it to take umbrage with. Their 7 review of Neverdead, however, maybe not
If they removed numbers entirely - which is where the contention usually boils down to (metacritic keyboard warriors rarely complain about the actual words) - it'd do massive favours for the magazine, where their 9 out of 10 times on-the-money reviews could speak for themselves. Indeed, the refusal of almost every single gaming source of note to do away with review scores is a barrier to a more sensible approach to game reviewing. Numbers matter little, words are far more important.0 -
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We seem to be in a Metacritic reading society, where a game is decided to be better than another over a matter of 1% , what a load of balls.
And then the fanboys turn out in their droves saying that somehow a stream of paid off flunkies giving sh1te like Resistance 2 or Killzone 3 a decent mark somehow precludes them from having to read an actual review at all.
But these are going to be people that aren't likely to venture into the Arcade&Retro forum so I think we're safe from their sort here, unless it's Psikyo, Raizing or Cave fanboys, you know who you are!
I don't know how anyone lets a reviewer decide if they like a game or not. Most blogger/reviewer types are far too interested in being loud & 'funny' to make what they're trying to say worthwhile.
There's not many who I can bear listening to. Retrogamer I do like a lot though, not not
but
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