Duck and Cover

I honestly didn't mean to post again, and I apologize for contradicting my last post, but I saw there were some questions here. What's that? You get paid off with free games? ;) Depends on who I'm writing for at the moment. I also write for Station Gamer, Tip Station, and OXM in the UK, I believe so...

I don't know, I just think the terms you used in your review like BG: DA for dummies and mindless button masher would preclude the 80% rating, which states that the thing is excellent according to your site's critea. If it's really shallow, which is how I read that, it's certainly NOT excellent at ...

I wouldn't put it quite like that, but then again, I'm biased. You have to understand that as game reviewers, we tend to play more games than most people, and we have less choice about what we play that day. Some days, it's a revolutionary RPG that changes the genre forever; other days, it's some no...

I agree with the second paragraph of your post, but the numerical rating should at least try to match the review. The problem with that is that the entire industry is set up to operate around a similar model. There isn't a gaming site on the planet that is willing to say a 30-40% game is only "...

60-69% is a D, D-plus, or thereabouts; it's a vastly flawed product that is, for some happy reason, not wholly a failure. In other words, yes, it's below average. Besides, it's not like there's some kind of sophisticated algorithm to determine what the final ranking is. You arbitrarily assign the ga...

Good morning. I was wondering what you lot would say about the review; somebody or another posted on the GO forums to comment on my preview, so I've been idly following your communities' reaction to BoS. That's actually not a bad comment, though. I do tend to go meandering through reviews, so someti...