err.. blogspot.. neoseeker.... nonames.

"blogspot" is only a blog provider (and everything but noname - that's google).

out of eight is not a noname. Not mainstream like IGN or Gamespot of course, but still well known (and the reviews are a lot better than these two).

However: sites that gives scores to games are always dubious. So it really does not matter what percentage you find on that review.

this was already posted, either in general or journals im not sure...

I love this game, but a perfect score given the still recurring issues with multiplayer?  I can never place much stock in these game reviews.  All of them gave near perfect scores to Total War: Empire and that game was almost unplayable due to the bugs.  And the load times, ugh.

Am I the only one who hates the way in video game terms 'heavy role playing elements' or 'rpg elements' means that the characters level up and get new skills/stats?

It's nothing to do with role playing in my opinion and it's sort of an abortion of the term.

in my terms this isn't a rpg it is a rps

roleplayinggame  tend to mean something like harry potter and games like that where ur a dude foloing a story

rps

role playing stratergy   where u take the role of a dude and have to fight tactically with ur allies

You do know that Zero Punctuation is not a "real review" as such that reviews are.  It's not a judgement of the game itself, but instead an entertainment segment used to make jokes and puns based on the product itself.

As for Gametrailers.com, they are as biased as it comes against any and all PC games and are mostly for console games.  I mean, they gave Halo Wars a better score and review than Dawn of War II, which in itself is hilariously backwards and wrong.    Most, if not all port games (ones that have console and PC versions), are reviewed by and played for their console version as can clearly be seen  by the Left 4 Dead and Orange Box reviews (both done on console even though they're higher quality on PC).

But, more to the point, reviews shouldn't matter so much as how you, the individual, feel about the game.  Is it enticing enough to enjoy over and over again?  Was it worth the money you spent on it?   What score do YOU as a player give the game based solely on FUN/ENTERTAINMENT?

I second that, Out of Eight is an excellent resource for scoping games.

Oh it is pretty much, but that is hardly Demigods or even the reviewers fault.

The evolution of the "RPG" term is of course closely tied to the evolution of computer RPGs... or rather the mutation into "MMO RPGs" where the term "RPG" pretty much lost all meaning other than "phat lewts and levels", as too many developpers "wised up" to how you can use said phat lewtz and levels to keep people playing almost indefinitely with trivial and repetitive tasks, which take a minimum of developpment effort - much less than elaborate storylines would take anyways - which is pretty much when roleplaying started to become a synonym for "phat lewtzs and levels", even if a game wasn't an MMO or didn't even employ similarily repetitive gameplay.

One could of course say it already started with "Diablo", but i would suggest that Diablo is more of a "missing link" in the evolution (devolution? lol) from storyline based RPG to MMORPGs mostly devoid of story or meaning - other than acquiring the next dangling carrot.

One could argue now wether MMORPGs need to be renamed into something else because they really lost all connection to what "roleplaying" actually stood for, or wether the term "RPG" has already been bastardized so much that it's really too late to change popular opinion.

In any case... it's a fact that if a reviewer, any reviewer nowadays, says "roleplaying elements" in his review then it will pretty much always be a game featuring "levels and phat lewts" in some form or the other and only rather rarely have anything to do with actual roleplaying lol.

So much for my roleplaying rant anyways.