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The review was posted on 23 April. It grants DG an 8 / 8 :
If I remember right, Neoseeker also gave it perfect.. though that review was a bit superficial.
Name enough to receive 533 games (and counting) for free to review.
"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.
Sweet way to get free games...
I think what Levelheaded meant is that no matter how many readers your blog has, you can't possibly compare yourself to the big reviewers who sway the purchases of thousands.
this was already posted, either in general or journals im not sure...
no. it realy came down to neoseeker and blogspot being places i never visit. The only reviewers i care for are gametrailers, if they do a video review (cuz you see the game in action) and zero punctuation (he is hilarious).
Aside from that, all reviews are inherently biased by the personal preferences of the reviewer and his incompetence as a journalist.
Not to mention the dickish attitude many reviewers display, somehow believing they know it all.
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.
Besides the two game breaking bugs (getting stuck, turning away to attack someone chasing you when you gave a move order to flee) and the crashes, demigod is great fun.. But can't be a 100% since there are lots of ways to improve it. 100% means perfect. It could use more skills, more polish to the fortress gamemode, improved item abilities not to mention an upgrade system for them rather than something like recipes, more informative and clear ui, more clear information(I know all these ins and outs and hidden stuff, but new players don't.. lots hidden in games files like aoe sizes, how much dps towers do, etc), and so on.
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
The score was based on the assumption that the multiplayer issues will be fixed soon. If you come back a year later and see that score of Demigod and Gamespot's score of Demigod, which will be a more accurate assessment of the game? Like diamonds, the Internet is forever.
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?
err... hende the "hes hilarious" part....
I second that, Out of Eight is an excellent resource for scoping games.
The best reviews are ones that don't give opinions about the games but just state facts and details that you can't find on a fan wiki or otherwise. You should be able to come up with your own review then. Although, any game you haven't played and trying to form an opinion on before trying is more of a preview than a review.
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.
Mikes78: since you seem to be fairly well versed with spelling and grammar, I hope you appreciate me correcting you; it's whether, not wether, and de-evolution, not devolution, lol.
[edit] and to stay on topic: find a reviewer that enjoys the same elements of games as you do, and you are golden.
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