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SNESdrunk wrote:It seems many people follow gaming in real-time, almost like it's sports or something.

cha cha wrote:The 'people who think old versions of games are obsolete' crowd are pretty much a symptom of EA sports/Madden games, which pretty much tells them their game is gonna be "worse" next year and to discontinue use as soon as the next one drops.

But don't get ti twisted, this is what game companies want for the most part. They don't make games hoping you will pay for it once and play it for 10 years straight. That doesn't make much sense from a profiting standpoint.

TSTR wrote:I wish I could find it now, but there was a running thread over on the shmups forum that had a bunch of terrible reviews for games by people that just have no clue about the genre.

General_Norris wrote:

TSTR wrote:I wish I could find it now, but there was a running thread over on the shmups forum that had a bunch of terrible reviews for games by people that just have no clue about the genre.

Some real gems in this thread:

http://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.ph ... 1284309238

TSTR wrote:

General_Norris wrote:

TSTR wrote:I wish I could find it now, but there was a running thread over on the shmups forum that had a bunch of terrible reviews for games by people that just have no clue about the genre.

Some real gems in this thread:

http://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.ph ... 1284309238

Yes! So much review fail in that thread.

There's nothing wrong with being required to pull off some fast-paced, evasive maneuvers, but Giga Wing 2 takes it to such an utterly insane level that it's a joke. The enemy fire is so thick, so heartless and so unavoidable that it's literally impossible to make it through a single stage unscathed. I can't even begin to describe how many projectiles are fired onscreen at once, and forget about using any kind of skill to dodge them. Looking at some of the patterns of fire, I doubt it's even possible to successfully evade the amount of flak aimed in your general direction. Without trying to sound like a broken record, no amount of manual dexterity whatsoever is going to get you through this one.

As a consequence, there's almost no gameplay at all. What you'll find offered here amounts to moving your ship around the screen while holding the fire button down and launching super-bombs while you constantly die and respawn amid a pyrotechnic lightshow.

BoringSupreez wrote:

There's nothing wrong with being required to pull off some fast-paced, evasive maneuvers, but Giga Wing 2 takes it to such an utterly insane level that it's a joke. The enemy fire is so thick, so heartless and so unavoidable that it's literally impossible to make it through a single stage unscathed. I can't even begin to describe how many projectiles are fired onscreen at once, and forget about using any kind of skill to dodge them. Looking at some of the patterns of fire, I doubt it's even possible to successfully evade the amount of flak aimed in your general direction. Without trying to sound like a broken record, no amount of manual dexterity whatsoever is going to get you through this one.

As a consequence, there's almost no gameplay at all. What you'll find offered here amounts to moving your ship around the screen while holding the fire button down and launching super-bombs while you constantly die and respawn amid a pyrotechnic lightshow.

To put an even harsher spotlight on the title, I had just finished up playing through Square's Einhander only a few nights earlier. To go from the technical emphasis and understated elegance of that side-scrolling gem to this "no skills needed, even a rutabaga could play this" excuse of a game just reinforced my feelings regarding side- and overhead shooters and left me wondering why the game was even released.

Sload Soap wrote:

cha cha wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nw4YfxlGD_Y&feature=share&list=FLOR4p813xz5LueagMtMPg-g&index=425

LOL, this SFZ2 review is like... So hilariously messed up. The guy says like some of the most incorrect things about SF you will ever hear, treats the movie like canon for the entire franchise and judges the game on completely inane aspects like endings.

I'd almost believe he has never played videogames before doing reviews. But yea, he has some priceless quotes.

Haha, I knew that was going to be a "Gaming in the Clinton years" review. I love his advice on how to win: putting the game on easy.

EDIT: So obviously I had to seek out more of his reviews. They are amazing in their ignorance and shortsightedness.

Some gems include "no one plays a game for multi-player" from the Goldeneye review and that Symphony of the Night is just "more of the same". The FF8 review starts with "I hope one of the lovers dies".