Because LOL language is fun. And giving Nintendo games bad review scores is “in”, apparently.<\/p>\n
I should preface this by saying, no, I haven’t yet played the game. That will change Tuesday evening. I really shouldn’t be tossing in my 2-cents judging reviews for games that I haven’t yet touched.<\/p>\n
But, oh, wait! This is my blog? And I can say whatever the hell I want? Awesome. I think I’ll have me some of that there freedom.<\/p>\n
Checking out Metacritic<\/a>, it appears as though the title is currently garnering a 91 composite score<\/a>. Of course, you first have to toss aside the masturbatory 100 received from Nintendo Power<\/em>. Yes, it’s shocking, I know, to see that Nintendo’s own magazine gave one of its own titles a perfect score. Then, unfortunately, you have to also toss out the pathetic attempt GameSpot put forth to actually create a relevant review of a Wii title. Metroid Prime 3<\/em> gains a meager 8.5 from the eviscerators. They’ve demonstrated time and again<\/a> that they care not for the “wagglerific” Wii and its plethora of “mini-games”. They really shouldn’t be entrusted with the task, as tiresome as it appears to be for them, but I guess that whole “freedom” thing I happened to mention earlier sort of plays into this situation. The truly unfortunate part of this is the fact that GameSpot’s reputation allows their laughable scores to be included in the Metacritic average score tabulation.<\/p>\n But, to be perfectly honest, maybe GameSpot’s scoring isn’t the problem here. Perhaps they are scoring on a more realistic scale, and it’s everyone else that is just not able to catch up to their enhanced scoring methods. Maybe Metroid Prime 3<\/em> does <\/em>deserve an 8.5, and Twilight Princess<\/a> deserves an 8.8, and Bioshock<\/a> deserves a 9. Maybe everyone else is skewing GameSpot’s results, not the other way around.<\/p>\n The funny part is that you really won’t hear many people complain about GameSpot’s reviews.<\/p>\n At least, not until they give Halo 3<\/em> an 8.2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Because LOL language is fun. And giving Nintendo games bad review scores is “in”, apparently. I should preface this by saying, no, I haven’t yet played the game. That will change Tuesday evening. I really shouldn’t be tossing in my 2-cents judging reviews for games that I haven’t yet touched. But, oh, wait! This is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[245],"tags":[718,488,489,314,126],"class_list":["post-2033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","tag-entertainment","tag-metroid","tag-metroid-prime-3","tag-reviews","tag-wii","last-post"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}