Strong Bad ep 1 worst telltale game? [says Gamespot]
Strong Bad only got 5 from gamespot breaking CSI crime evidence by 5 points.Will it become the worst telltale game reception wise.
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It's a great game and I think the average score will reflect that. Gamespot often misses completely, I don't trust that site anymore.
Gamespot's reviews have slowly hit a slump with me in the last few years, and they've now reached a point where I consider their opinions invalid. :P
I'm only judging from the demo because my Mum doesn't trust websites with her credit card details
http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/wii/strongbadsep1homestarruiner
I had some fun, but the Sam and Max games felt to be more fun than Ep. 1. I think it just need more polish though before it gets better.
Only one person's opinion really counts, and that's your own, but if you must read reviews, it's best to look at things from a big-picture perspective rather than one single review.
You wouldn't ask a person that is an ardent Japanese RPG fan to review the next big FPS. You wouldn't ask someone that only plays casual games like Wii Sports to give an opinion on, say, Metal Gear or an Elder Scrolls game.
I mean, a person trying to get into SBCG4AP should be informed that it IS an adventure game and what an adventure game IS, since there are so few around nowadays that the genre can not even exist on some gamer's radars. But to make someone who would never buy the game in the first place to review it...is a disservice to people considering a purchase. And this appears to be the case with the Gamespot review.
Just about anyone that gives this game a bad score or really hates it, is, in my opinion, one of those people that fits into the dusty, forgotten shelves of the "You just don't get it" category.
Their opinion doesn't really even matter since, from what i've seen, the naysayers's unfamiliarity with the cartoon or license or their general dislike and bias against the "point and click" genre in the first place are what these people seem to be going by.
It's a great Homestar Runner game, a great point and click game FOR fans of H*R, and that's really all that matters.
Another problem with unfair, badly written reviews, is that I think also people expect this game to be "epic". Again, showing that they just don't "get it". No true Homestar runner fan would describe the cartoon as "epic". Charming, and funny, yes. Epic, never. And the game shouldn't be, either.
It's funny, fun, enjoyable, and that's all that matters. Maybe a little bit short, but that's why it's episodic. All 5 games together, spread out through 5 months will be very long, i'm sure.
I find it a waste of time to even look at reviews for this game. Especially Gamespot, which, after having run neck and neck for the most useless gaming website ever with IGN, through recent events and controversies at Gamespots poor management over the last year, Gamespot has won the that title of "most useless game website" by a long shot.
Their serious staff and management issues over their content and their bad management and ignorance seriously invalidates at least 87% of Gamespot's credibility. This Homestar Ruiner review is just another reason why Gamespot is pathetic and no one should even listen to that site, ever. They just don't feel that they have to know what they are in fact, talking about, before saying much of anything.
Homestar Ruiner is, exactly the kind of game people are either going to "get it" or they won't. And if they don't "get it", that's their fault. Not the game's fault.
It does what it does very well, and is in every regard, true and faithful to the HomestarRunner.com world. Telltale has produced the exact type of game that H*R fans should appreciate as being very true to it's source and fun to play for a while.
Wow, gamer zen...
The way I see it, there is MORE of a point to reviewing episodic games than there is to writing reviews for the big $60 "AAA" titles. Because with an episodic game, the course of the game itself can change. Because the developers can say "Oh, well, the people who played the first game liked this aspect, but disliked that aspect. What can we do to improve that aspect? How can we continue to provide this aspect?"
For example, it seems like the general consensus is that they got the graphics spot-on, with a couple complaints about little graphical glitches or certain characters (Strong Sad, especially) that look odd in the engine. People seem to be very happy with the writing. The length and/or difficulty of the game seem to be negatives that a lot of people have. Then again, I may be applying my own opinions and noticing them more than others, but the point that reviews and customer feedback ideally play a big role in the episodic model.
Oh well, all of us who have played the game know the truth. So do most critics as well. Gamespot are wrong, it is an excellent game.
Charlie
http://www.gamespot.com/wii/action/lostwinds/review.html?om_act=convert&om_clk=gssummary&tag=summary;review
One of the Best WiiWare games, 5.5.
It could be a number of Reasons, its possible GameSpot doesn't like Nintendo, possible they expect a full 50$ game content from WiiWare.
More then likely, its the fact they take bribes.
There is not "truth" that we know.
Now, I don't think this particular reviewer was the best for this game. They don't like adventure games, so they weren't going to enjoy it. This person wasn't really in their target audience. But their opinion is a valid one. My favorite game of all time is Morrowind, but you can very easily find someone who thinks it's boring and tedious. Neither opinion is "right", and gamers would be far better off if they'd just stop it with their crusades.
An opinion may not be fact but game critics tend to give similar scores for games. Because Gamespot gave a score that was completely outside the trend set by other reviewers and that they even complained about too much pointing and clicking I really have to question validity of their opinion.
Charlie
Edit: NM I found it. All I can say for that review is "Telltale Games really missed the boat here by not including an option to view the original content" is a really stupid idea, IMO.
I still think measuring a game's worth in terms of a numerical score simply CANNOT work, in any circumstances. And if it can, I'd prefer a smaller scale. In terms of ten. Without decimals, decimals are cheating.
It's a joke. Homestar is talking to his agent, because he's mad that he got put in a "crappy" game. He's mad that his license was used on something so sub-par.
Hate to disagree, but opinions can in fact, be erroneous and wrong.
One of the things that seems to cause way too many problems with the world today is the climate of our flawed social structure that leads people to believe that anytime that they open their mouth that they are instantly right about absolutely anything without even presenting a reason and backing it up.
Thus hiding behind the fallacy that "opinions can't be wrong" as some kind of all encompassing shield to delude themselves from the possibility they they could ever be incorrect about anything, and repeating "it's my opinion" like a broken record in any attempt to close a matter and keep on believing they are right, and growing up this way.
For example, if someone was to actually look up at a clear, blue sky, point at it and say "I think the sky looks to me, like it's purple and red, with orange polka dots and plaid stripes", they would in fact be wrong. No matter how strong or empathetically their ridiculous and incorrect "opinion" on the color of the sky is stated, it's still factually wrong.
No matter if it's a hallucination or somehow someone might actually legitimately believe the sky to be purple and red with orange polka dots and plaid stripes, does nothing to change the fact that they are completly incorrect in what they believe.
People can in fact, have opinions that are, in every way wrong, or at the least, based soley on ridiculous and uncredible criteria such as matters of extreme bias or ignorance of a given subject, opinions can be as wrong as any kind of statement from any kind of person can be.
Therefore all opinions aren't equal, and many of them (especially from most people today) aren't particularly based in anything resembling good common sense, knowledge, logic or actual truth, and as such many of them aren't worth even listening to.
Everyone has an opinion, no one is right all the time, therefore people often state "opinions" that are on occasion completly wrong.
There's never going to be any sort of end to people's "opinions" going against each other, nor is there ever going to be any stopping arguments or disagreements from taking place in the world. At the very least though, I would hope that we would recognize disagreements and arguments in society as a nessessary evil as long as people continue to feel "entitiled" to opinions that are sometimes right and sometimes wrong.
The point is that "right" opinions and "wrong" opinions are, very hard for humans to comprehend and can sometimes labor their entire moral decisions in life entirely on wrong opinions, incorrectly believing them to be the right ones. That's why disagreements exist at all. But just as humans make bad choices and good choices while not fulling knowing the extent of either, they also can state opinions that are right and ones that are wrong.
Maybe someday people will realize that and stop trying to hide behind the semantic nonsense that "opinions can't be wrong.".
It's the kind of touchy-feely nonsense that only serves to let unintelligent or ignorant people feel confident to be as ignorant as they want to be without opposition from anyone else. Todays society is built on nonsense like this to let people with an IQ of, say, 97, act like they are better and much more intelligent than people whose IQ is tested at 200 or more.
Yes, opinions can absolutely be factually wrong.
Merely believing that someone is right in what they say doesn't automatically make it true or relevant. Not everyone is a special and unique snowflake and sometimes people honestly just don't have any clue what they are talking about when they say it.
Also, I don't like metacritic much. Several different people with several different ways to assign random numbers that attempt to sum up complex opinions. My 2 favorite movies got a 72 and a 62.
Important fact to remember:
ALL REVIEWS ARE JUST SOME INTERNET GUYS OPINION! Make up your own mind?
In the context, I believe it is reasonable to infer that my meaning was that this is the case when it comes to matters that are purely subjective. In an entertainment product, this simply has to be the case. Your personal opinion of the product is what decides whether or not it is worth purchasing.
It is not like a piece of equipment, where various merits of quantifiable quality can be used to decide which is "better". For example, I can say that one new laptop is not as good as another new laptop if they are both the same price, and yet one has far worse technical specifications.
It is tempting to break a video game down into quantifiable elements that can be rated in a numerical fashion. Things like graphics and the technology used to create the game can be quantified in some ways, but cannot in others. How can we rate the graphics of games that go for a distinctly different style? Photorealism can be rated through many means, but it becomes more difficult to say where the likes of Okami, Paper Mario, and the Strong Bad game lie on a purely objective and quantifiable scale.
A game is an experience that cannot be properly rated, because the quantifiable elements of a game do not equate to the full experience. We can easily see the production values of a title, but beyond the obvious it's impossible to pin down the experience with a number that matches up with all the previous numbers.
In your case, we have an obvious fact. At least, for those who see the color spectrum in the way most humans seem to, and who see the same things in the sky as we do. It is known that bees use the infrared spectrum to guide them towards the nectar in flowers. But this is a bit of an off-topic rant.
Also, you're being a prick. =p
Not to mention Katamari Damacy...
So although it didn't score as high as any of the Sam & Max games, it still did better than Bone: Out from Boneville and both of the CSI games, so definitely isn't the worst TTG game out there.
And tbh, 73% isn't a bad score, either. You could go a lot worse than being Awesome with the 'Bad if looking for an adventure game.