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i went to an uncharted 3 event at my local gamestation last week. they ordered everyone pizza and gave out free drinks and prizes, and although it was awesome, i did feel really pressured into getting it, rather then playing it and forming my own opinion. developers need to stop buttering people up and focus on making good games
Destructoid journalists are way too lazy. First you guys don't even get real jobs, next you can't even put the bong down long enough to actually do your work. For shame.
That works. Review events are sketchy, played in conditions cherry picked by the publisher. I know most reviewers will do their best to maintain their objectivity, but it's really best to avoid the appearance of impropriety where possible.
Thanks for letting us know where things stand on this, Jim. Why doesn't Destructoid attend events for games? Does it invite bias or is it because of the time limitations or what?
Nice, review events are... well, it doesn't take an overactive imagination to come up with a halfway accurate conclusion.
Just one more reason to love Destructoid. Just one more reason to leave messages on Destructoid's voicemail because Destructoid decided to stop answering Destructoid's phone after Destructoid was graciously allowed to round third, and head for home.
Just. One. More. Reason. Destructoid. I fuckin love you.
Just one more reason to love Destructoid. Just one more reason to leave messages on Destructoid's voicemail because Destructoid decided to stop answering Destructoid's phone after Destructoid was graciously allowed to round third, and head for home.
Just. One. More. Reason. Destructoid. I fuckin love you.
Hi Jim.
Freakin IGN desease, a RSS feed every f*&^%$ day for a week with the question "where is the <insert game name> review?". Seems that you catched the bug!
Freakin IGN desease, a RSS feed every f*&^%$ day for a week with the question "where is the <insert game name> review?". Seems that you catched the bug!
Nice, hopefully it's an insightful review considering you won't put much time into it, that being said no one cares about the campaign, so just review it how a battlefield game should be reviewed about, the multilayer.
@Mr Andy Dixon: It's legit. I just got two separate e-mails(one for BF3 itself and one for the Physical Warfare pack) from EA that match Battlefieldo's screenshot pixel-for-pixel, though, I'm clicking on Origin like crazy(add me! Ramsteinrig) and I can't seem to get it to launch. Double-you-tee-eff mate?
I just hope we get a review of Battlefield 3, and not an editorial about hatred for Origin. We already know all about that. I hope I'm wrong, but I have a sinking feeling that preconceptions are going to play a big part in this.
Should have gone to the review event and installed Bad Company 2 on a PC, and just play that. Unprofessional, but hilarious.
pokota: Origin will have nothing to with the review. I can't slam a product because of the store it's sold in.
Battle Log may be another thing entirely, but I haven't yet seen its integration in the final (non beta) product. Still downloading.
Others:
We don't attend review events not out of laziness as one very clever person suggested, but because we don't think they're good for reviews. One's gameplay experience is married to artificially produced good feelings thanks to the free hotel, food, and often lavish treats (Black Ops gave people helicopter rides) and you have PR breathing down your necks in locally connected environments.
I don't think they lead to good reviews. I did a review based on an event a few years back and the review sucked. I'd rather play them in a natural environment without PR there to hold my hand.
Battle Log may be another thing entirely, but I haven't yet seen its integration in the final (non beta) product. Still downloading.
Others:
We don't attend review events not out of laziness as one very clever person suggested, but because we don't think they're good for reviews. One's gameplay experience is married to artificially produced good feelings thanks to the free hotel, food, and often lavish treats (Black Ops gave people helicopter rides) and you have PR breathing down your necks in locally connected environments.
I don't think they lead to good reviews. I did a review based on an event a few years back and the review sucked. I'd rather play them in a natural environment without PR there to hold my hand.
Yeah I'm assuming review events are filled with PR fucks trying to get you to like the game more than you should, anyway the console version from what I gather is getting a day 1 patch, so I'm assuming your review copies are kind of buggy, so good luck with that.
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And that is how you should do a review.
Otherwise it risks being turned into a glorified commercial, instead of a critical analysis.
I knew there was something about Destructoid that made me enjoy coming here so often.
Integrity.
And that is how you should do a review.
Otherwise it risks being turned into a glorified commercial, instead of a critical analysis.
I knew there was something about Destructoid that made me enjoy coming here so often.
Integrity.
That's all I wanted to know. Battle Log is an important part of Battlefield 3, so it's understandable that it would be part of the review.
@Jim Sterling
i would ask for your Origin nickname to add, but SURPRISE battlelog and all the other EA games are not in any fucking way connected to your Origin friend list (so yeah, manual add for every single game there). And they don't have a wishlist there, so we won't be able to brag about "i want this game, buy it please" to eachother... or me bragging... cos i'm unemployed... and nothing made sense
NEVER MIND
so, thing is, battlelog is NOT connected to Origin in almost no way, which nulifies the point of it's exclusivity on Origin, doesn't it?
i would ask for your Origin nickname to add, but SURPRISE battlelog and all the other EA games are not in any fucking way connected to your Origin friend list (so yeah, manual add for every single game there). And they don't have a wishlist there, so we won't be able to brag about "i want this game, buy it please" to eachother... or me bragging... cos i'm unemployed... and nothing made sense
NEVER MIND
so, thing is, battlelog is NOT connected to Origin in almost no way, which nulifies the point of it's exclusivity on Origin, doesn't it?
Why exactly are people so obsessed with reading the review?
If you care so much about the review, you probably already have decided you're going to buy it. I'm not trying to trivialize what Jim's doing, I'm just saying I don't understand the impatience on the part of many readers.
If you care so much about the review, you probably already have decided you're going to buy it. I'm not trying to trivialize what Jim's doing, I'm just saying I don't understand the impatience on the part of many readers.
@JimSterling:
"One's gameplay experience is married to artificially produced good feelings thanks to the free hotel, food, and often lavish treats (Black Ops gave people helicopter rides) and you have PR breathing down your necks in locally connected environments."
And this, THIS, is why I love Destructoid (well, that and the constant dick humor and homoerotic header images). Jim, and the rest of the Dtoid staff, thank you for maintaining such a great ethical standard with regard to reviews and your treatment of your readers in general. It's refreshing to see a site that doesn't treat its patrons as valued community members and not a product to be sold.
"One's gameplay experience is married to artificially produced good feelings thanks to the free hotel, food, and often lavish treats (Black Ops gave people helicopter rides) and you have PR breathing down your necks in locally connected environments."
And this, THIS, is why I love Destructoid (well, that and the constant dick humor and homoerotic header images). Jim, and the rest of the Dtoid staff, thank you for maintaining such a great ethical standard with regard to reviews and your treatment of your readers in general. It's refreshing to see a site that doesn't treat its patrons as valued community members and not a product to be sold.
Prediction. 8.5/10 and Modern Warfare 3 will get a lower score for being more of the same and not improving on much.
I don't care either way, as I've stated in my most recent blog, just making predictions here.
I don't care either way, as I've stated in my most recent blog, just making predictions here.
How on earth was this worthy of a post? Why didn't you just address the lateness of the review in the review itself?
I'm behind Dtoid 100% on this (I think preview & press events in general aren't beneficial for either the publication or its readers, let alone review events), though it is sad and somewhat annoying that posts like this need to be made at all; that so many people have become so fixated on one product that blogs not only have to give the review pride of place but even have to give the review its own mini press release to tell readers that the review is in fact on the way. Because God help us if we have to wait 24 hours longer than we thought we would to hear what one person's opinion of a video game is (which is not to say I don't care; I value Jim's opinion highly and will typically trust in his reviews more than those from any other site or publication).
It's not like most of the readers gagging for the review will even read the text or care for the score either. They've mostly made up their minds about what this game will be and the only reason they want to see the review so badly is so they can either feel their baseless opinion of the game has been justified or so they can work themselves up into a frothing frenzy over the biased trolling console kiddie bullshitbullshitbullshitbullshitbullshit-sorry, seem to have lost my train of thought there. Point made.
It's not like most of the readers gagging for the review will even read the text or care for the score either. They've mostly made up their minds about what this game will be and the only reason they want to see the review so badly is so they can either feel their baseless opinion of the game has been justified or so they can work themselves up into a frothing frenzy over the biased trolling console kiddie bullshitbullshitbullshitbullshitbullshit-sorry, seem to have lost my train of thought there. Point made.
I actually prefer reviews written with the actual game as opposed to dev controlled environments where of course everything works perfectly. It's when you get the thing at home, on your own system... that you realize voice chat doesn't work or there's a 20 minute wait to get into a game because matchmaking sucks or other issues.
Still.. this is the PC version... I do hope someone is also doing a console version review? I'd love to know if they actually fixed the PS3 voice chat issues and if there is an actual server browser (which wasn't in the beta) and how it works.
This might be a great game for FNF on the PS3 if large groups can actually play together... and talk.
Still.. this is the PC version... I do hope someone is also doing a console version review? I'd love to know if they actually fixed the PS3 voice chat issues and if there is an actual server browser (which wasn't in the beta) and how it works.
This might be a great game for FNF on the PS3 if large groups can actually play together... and talk.
Dont have xbox live so i will be playing Bioshock 2 and pretending im flying a Jet with a giant drill attached to it. : )
So the reviews that are out now are based on networks that are connected locally and is much more controlled than if you were to play something at your house.
Honestly I don't think anyone else can review this game. Jim your the only guy I know who gets so much controversy over review scores. This is a game where a 9.2 is too low to battlefield fans.
@tylerstravis
On twitter Jim said the uncharted review is being written by Chad and should hit wednesday.
On twitter Jim said the uncharted review is being written by Chad and should hit wednesday.
Jim, I respectfully request that you consider the merits of the single player campaign in your review. Not that I don't think you would anyway, I simply ask because so many reviews I've been reading today clearly didn't do so.
Some of us were interested in this game for the campaign, as whacked-out insane as that may sound, and hopefully we can get some consideration in at least ONE review on teh intarwebz.
Some of us were interested in this game for the campaign, as whacked-out insane as that may sound, and hopefully we can get some consideration in at least ONE review on teh intarwebz.
Always interesting to hear these behind-the-scenes bits. BTW Jim, I think the Podtoid Android app is missing from the Market.
@Tristrix
The campaign is average, from reviews everybody knows that, you know that, this series which is literally multiplayer focused should not be knocked down for something that until just recently was introduced to the franchise, just how dead space 2 should not be knocked down for it's tacked on multiplayer; you simply want the game to get a lower score, are you trying to prove something?
The campaign is average, from reviews everybody knows that, you know that, this series which is literally multiplayer focused should not be knocked down for something that until just recently was introduced to the franchise, just how dead space 2 should not be knocked down for it's tacked on multiplayer; you simply want the game to get a lower score, are you trying to prove something?
Jim, glad to see there are REAL journalists still out there and not just PR megaphones taking the bait.
Much respect, and thanks for shedding some light on what's going on in the industry. Suddenly all those obligatory 9s make sense. I'll start to judge reviews more carefully for now on.
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