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Gameranking knocks down Zelda score. GTA IV conveniently back on top. (Updated)
Lord The Night Knight | 12:49 AM on 05.17.2008 15 comments


Just look up the all-time rankings on gamerankings.com. Ocarina of Time now has a score of 97.4%, when it had a score of just under 97.7%. Guess what two games also have a score of just under 97.7%.

Now normally I wouldn't mind which game is in what place. Yet the fact is that OoT got knocked down just when GTA IV's reviews were leveling out, and both versions had just gone below OoT's score.

What the hell?

BTW, this could be an honest mistake, but the timing makes it mighty damn suspicious. Worse yet, gameranking is owned by CNET, which also owns gamespot.com. Now they've been bought out by CBS, but that was just yesterday, so we don't even know what influence CBS has right now.

Either way, to quote a forumgoer on another board, "Along with the lost source (for OoT) comes a healthy dose of lost credibility for Gamerankings."

Update: It wasn't gamerankings. cubed3.com changed their review system, which lowered Ocarina of Time. However, they chose to round down, when the score they adjusted should have been rounded up. That is still a faulty way to adjust the reviews, so they still screwed up. It just was another site than I thought.



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Upgrayedd's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/17/2008 01:02
Upgrayedd
Either a site was added or taken off probably.

It's not the best game ever either way, so whatever.
MrSadistic's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/17/2008 01:28
MrSadistic
Yeah Ocarina was a pretty mediocre title.
MaxVest's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/17/2008 01:29
MaxVest
Ocarina doesn't have very many polygons or textures, and I also suspect that its pixels are bad. The score change probably reflects this delayed realization on the part of gamerankings.
ZekeThePlumber's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/17/2008 02:28
ZekeThePlumber
More like The Legend of Zelda: Waste of Time am I right? I blame the developers decision to forgo the tightening up of the graphics.
Projectexodus's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/17/2008 02:31
Projectexodus
I dont really get where GTAIV is getting all these 10's from. It was a potential masterpiece, but it just has TOO many flaws in it! Its more like a 8 out of 10 game in my opinion.
Xerosnake90's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/17/2008 02:39
Xerosnake90
Ocarina isn't considered so great because of its graphics or story, but simply because it was such a huge leap in gameplay that it was considered revolutionary, much as GTA4 is being viewed as. It was the next step for games to evolve from.
Kyousuke Nanbu's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/17/2008 03:00
Kyousuke Nanbu
Who the fuck cares? Ocarina of time will always be remembered as one of the greatest games of all time regardless of its position on some retarded list on some shitty website.

I'll never understand why people care about numbers so much.
MechaMonkey's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/17/2008 09:38
MechaMonkey
Ocarina of Time wasn't gray enough. Sorry.
Aaron Mxy Yost's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/17/2008 09:46
Aaron Mxy Yost
Can you kill hookers in OoT? I didn't think so.
Bob Muir's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/17/2008 10:42
Bob Muir
For once, I agree with Kyousuke. Seriously, it's a drop of .3%. Who gives a shit? As it is, there's no difference in quality between games that are a full point apart, so if you're imagining some giant conspiracy about decimals, then you need to rethink what really matters. Ocarina and GTAIV are still going to be good, no matter what. Who cares what the numbers are?
big filth's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/17/2008 12:28
big filth
I like video games :)
Ultimate Carnage's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/17/2008 14:06
Ultimate Carnage
wow .3 percent down who gives a flying cock
Ninjajuice's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/17/2008 18:46
Ninjajuice
What! Zelda is for fags! You can't even kill hookers and steal their money. It's such a baby game! OMG! PSP has such mature games!
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