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patrickl:

--- Quote from: shmokes on September 28, 2008, 07:35:12 pm ---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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In my comparison of Wii game reviews, 1UP rates good games higher (they do hand out a lot of 100%'s) and bad games lower. Overall their average score was resonably similar to metacritic. About 2 tenths lower and IGN's scores one tenth higher. 1UP can be really ridiculous when they have some gripe.

For instance they completely burn down Medal of Honor 2 Heroes just because the AI is dumb. Sure the AI is simplistic (characters run a pre programmed path), but the game is great and one of my favorites. Going by the reactions of people on the review (like "Yet another crap review!!!") they don't really agree. Compare that to the in-depth review (3 pages) that IGN has.

shmokes:
Well . . . to be fair to 1up, their metacritic scores are difficult to compare.  They're not really giving out 100% scores.  They just sensibly decided that the scoring system the industry was using was absolutely absurd and they switched to one closer to what movie reviewers use.  Seriously do you think that you or any videogame reviewer could tell me is the difference between a 6.4 and a 6.9 game?  How about a 2.2 and a 3.5 -- more than a full point difference!  It's nonsense, and it suggests a level of precision in a review that is completely illusory.  When 1up gives a game an A+, they are not giving the game a 100%, they are merely saying that it is an absolutely phenomenal game that cannot be missed, much like when a movie reviewer gives a movie four-stars, he is not saying that the movie is flawless.  Metacritic converts the 1up grades to numbers so they will work with its mathematical formulas, but it's kind of a messy conversion.  They aren't meant to work that way.

ChadTower:

rottentomatoes loses all credibility with me when crap like School of Rock gets a 90+ rating.

patrickl:
Giving a game an A+ is just as daft as 100% or a 10. IGN usually rates in halves too.

The problem with 1UP is that their reviews are more like a quick preview rather than a real review. IGN also provides a video of the game and for me most importantly they write their review with the different readers in mind. For instance they will make extra remarks for casual vs hard core players or if a game is nice for kids. 1UP will just say the game is crap and give it a low score and the reader has to guess what the reviewers taste is.

1UP has better user reviews than IGN though. They tend to be better than the actual review. That's more a result ove the reviews themselves being so poorly done though.

SavannahLion:

--- Quote from: pinballjim on September 28, 2008, 07:53:13 pm ---
--- Quote from: Ginsu Victim on September 28, 2008, 07:09:55 pm ---I'm getting EGM free right now.

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Yeah, I *was* - had it backed up for years (4?) of free issues.  Even switched it to my new address without any problems and BAM stopped showing up.  :-P
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How were you getting free issues of EGM? Was that something relatively recent?


--- Quote ---If you read the stats they published yearly, it had a disturbingly low readership, and I have a feeling almost all of them were free subscriptions.
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I think that has a lot to do with how Ziff-Davis is/was managing their magazines. I used to subscribe to a lot of ZD printings. Nowadays, I don't even give them a second glance on the shelves. At first, I wasn't sure whether ZD changed across the board or my tastes, experience, and needs have changed. But after looking at why I stopped reading each of the magazines, it tended to be more to do with format changes or the loss/change/hiring of editorial staff.

To keep this thread somewhat on topic.

Can a lawyer type person explain to me why it's necessary for a peer to file the appeal to a disbarrment? I know that Thompson is a raging idiot and filed an appeal on his own anyways. I just don't quite grasp the logic on why an appeal must filed by a peer and not by the person who was disbarred.

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