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You have free reign to compare any piece of entertainment to any other piece of entertainment. The music in game A is as good as the music in movie B. The visuals of game A beg stark comparison to cirque du solei.
Will Battlefield 3 or MW3 be knocked for not having an in depth crafting system? Yeah they can be. They can be knocked for being a FPS, for being too long, too short, too fast paced, too slow paced, not an rpg, not a racing game, anything. A review is a subjective opinion based on objective fact. "BF3 is a fps, personally I don't enjoy them, and preferr my game to be an rpg" why is that not a legitimate thing to say? Some one who only likes rpgs can knock an fps for being an fps, that is completely fair.
Will Battlefield 3 or MW3 be knocked for not having an in depth crafting system? Yeah they can be. They can be knocked for being a FPS, for being too long, too short, too fast paced, too slow paced, not an rpg, not a racing game, anything. A review is a subjective opinion based on objective fact. "BF3 is a fps, personally I don't enjoy them, and preferr my game to be an rpg" why is that not a legitimate thing to say? Some one who only likes rpgs can knock an fps for being an fps, that is completely fair.
@Lenigod
You can compare anything to anything but it's probably best if you refrain. I swear, if I ever see a review comparing the music in Dark Souls to Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, I will eat my hat.
(It's a safe gamble - I don't wear a hat.)
You can compare anything to anything but it's probably best if you refrain. I swear, if I ever see a review comparing the music in Dark Souls to Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, I will eat my hat.
(It's a safe gamble - I don't wear a hat.)
While I agree a game should not be reviewed based on what it isn't I don't think that's the case with Rage. A true example of an unfair criticism would be downgrading the score by saying, "if Rage didn't have solid shooting mechanics it would suck. 3/10." You would be removing an element from the game that actually exists and judging it on something it is not. Every review I read said that Rage attempts to incorporate the game elements you listed but that the results are shallow. That's why no one compares Gears to an RPG; it doesn't try to be one.
Also, judging games in terms of their competition is a good way of determining their worth. For example, if I never read a good book I might think the Twilight series is an amazing work of fiction. How are we supposed to judge quality if we ignore what came before?
Also, judging games in terms of their competition is a good way of determining their worth. For example, if I never read a good book I might think the Twilight series is an amazing work of fiction. How are we supposed to judge quality if we ignore what came before?
I hear what you are saying, but I think the problem with Rage is that Id encouraged the impression that it was a more open world and free experience than it really is. The mixed reviews its receiving are not so much an indictment for not living up to imagined expectations, its for not living up to expectations set in the marketing cycle released by the creators of the game. There is a big difference between the two.
I think Id got scared that people wouldn't appreciate an oldschool hallway shooter these days so they implied it was something else and did nothing to correct news outlets that presented the game in that fashion. Now its coming back to bite them. They probably would have been better off being honest. I mean, who would complain about Id doing what Id does best?
I think Id got scared that people wouldn't appreciate an oldschool hallway shooter these days so they implied it was something else and did nothing to correct news outlets that presented the game in that fashion. Now its coming back to bite them. They probably would have been better off being honest. I mean, who would complain about Id doing what Id does best?
