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SavannahLion:
Might want to check to see if shills are involved. They were a problem at GSI before they were bought by IGN. There might be some influence from them still.

Up until the mid 90's, EGM used to be the best review magazine, hands down. It was the only magazine to ever steer me to the really good sleepers. Then sometime around the late 90's, early 00's, I recall they changed their format and I believe ousted some of the staff to get "new blood." Ever since then, the feel of the magazine and the actual reviews didn't quite line up with how I felt the games were. It wasn't bad, just wasn't lined up properly and they were missing good sleepers too. I haven't bothered much with 1UP because of that.

I pay closer attention to forum posts than I do reviews nowadays. Still means I miss more sleepers, but I get a better feel for a games before buying them (The Mario Kart Wii discussion being a really good example).

As for Jack Thompson. My only fear is he now has more time to try and bend the rest of us over and stuff us with his so-called Christian anti-gaming dick slime. I'm afraid we're going to see dick weed do an interview on some idiot news media whoring himself as a martyr and moronic parents are going to listen.

shmokes:

--- Quote from: Ginsu Victim on September 27, 2008, 11:39:39 am ---RottenTomatoes also collects game reviews. (Though I've never really used them much for games, only movies)

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I think RottenTomatoes recently stopped doing games.  But they were always awful for games, anyway.  Unlike movies there is almost always a critical consensus of whether a game is merely good or bad.  There are differences of opinion about how good it is, but you rarely get one critic saying, "This game is an 8," and another saying, "This game is a 2."  Since Rotten Tomatoes works on the Fresh/Rotten score, games were always getting essentially 100% or 0% ratings, or damned close to that.  So a game like the new Brothers in Arms would get a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, even though it's MetaCritic score is 76% and both organizations are aggregating the exact same reviews. 

So, yeah, MetaCritic is far better than Rotten Tomatoes for games.  But like I said Rotten Tomatoes seems to agree since it exited the games reviews business.

Ginsu Victim:
Yeah, I can see how the Tomometer wouldn't work for games.

Ginsu Victim:
I'm getting EGM free right now.

shmokes:
There are two things that I really like about 1up.  Big games get reviewed by three people.  EGM prints all three reviews.  It's nice to get the different (sometimes significantly different) takes.  Also, they just seem to be a lot more discerning to me.  They're harder on games, IMO.  I haven't done a scientific comparison or anything, but that's the impression I have.

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