I wasn't aware india had been taken recently? all kidding aside though, COD couldn't interest me less if it tried and I never played a zelda game:P

i don't even

i don't even

i don't even

Modern Occupation *cough* WARFARE 3 got 7/10 and 4/6 on some norwegian gamingsites. So it's not like it got 8-9 / 10 all over.

Destuctoid.com and Gameinformer.com are the ones I personally like.

1 X360 Call of Duty: Modern Warf... 2,813,178
2 PS3 Call of Duty: Modern Warf... 1,219,070
source: http://www.vgchartz.com/home.php

I can't see 9 millions anywhere. But I agree with you about the brain-dead stuff.

When Skyrim is released every neglected and bored 13 year old will come to the forums to tell us how much the game has "morrowind grafix" and how it is "like oblivion 2.0". They'll completely ignore the existence of morrowind, arena and daggerfall as they are 13 years old and would have still been a gamete in their mother and father at the time of those games.

try reading the fan written eviews on gamefaqs. usually get a good mix of good and bad reviews.

I ignore the reviews about a game. I rely on my own opinion. Skyrim will still be selling copys in 5 years when the next TES is coming out and CoD MW7 :shifty: will be out by then. It is your opinion about a game that really counts here. Love or hate MW3 won't be a flop it will most likely be the most brought game on consoles this year. Even if the reviewer gave games like Zelda or CoD a 1 people are still going to buy them.

Using brain power to formulate an acceptable response is serious business. Actually read what the OP wrote and reflect on that.

He said "More interesting are the Metacritic user reviews: people are absolutely slamming the game."

Bold and highlighted for the less evolved primates.

The link I posted, It means 9 million pre-orders world wide. People Love CoD, Like some people like Madden every year, IN gamespot review they gave MW3 a 8.5 and call it recyled, OH and yeah Vgchartz.com is America pre-orders only.

But, I do see on their site about Pre-Orders Topping 6.5 mllion for MW3. Interesting wonder why that is on gamespot then.

Check http://www.metacritic.com/game/xbox-360/call-of-duty-modern-warfare-3 out.

COD was fun the first 2 games but they hardly change anything now. Id rather play counter strike.

I'm genuinely tired of hearing about how "Call of Duty is rehashed" blah blah blah. This thread doesn't even belong on these forums.

MW3 is getting it's score because it's been the exact same game with new gun's and graphics for the past 5 year and is now deep within BF3's shadow. But it's hard to compare a FPS to a RPG game in the first place. As for Zelda I would love to play it and I'm sure it will be amazing but I lack a wii at the moment so it's release doesn't matter to me. But seeing as how Skyrim has sold around 2 million give or take a few thousand. I think it's sells are rock solid.

Once again the people have spoken and the reviewers have lied. How much money do you think they get paid for a favourable review?

Regarding game reviews:

Game reviews influence sales a lot. It is in the best interest of every publisher to be in good terms with the so called "professional" game sites and press.
So they give early copies of their games, host journalist events, give interviews and promote their games as best as they can.

The journalists in many cases return the favor by giving some extra praise if the game is generally good, or hiding some bad facts if the game is bad.

That's why nowadays in a scale of 1 to 10 most good games get 9s and 10s and not so good games get usually the 7s. The scale is not used as it was meant to.
That's the reason points can't be trusted in a review. You have to read the review and make your own score out of it.

If the next COD is utter crap it will not get any less than 7. If it is decent it will get anything up to 10. So you never know if it's just good or amazing.
Personal preferences play their part of course.

Interesting point of view, considering the new CS is a complete replica of the original. It's LITERALLY the exact same game. Oh the irony.

I find it even more funnier when COD fans say that every sequel is like COD.

Meh, as far as I'm concerned, MW svcks (I hated MW2, didn't play Black Ops, and won't play MW3), and Zelda is an RPG for kids.

Neither of these games are any competition in my book. But I'm talking about me, and not the grand scheme of things.

Skyward Sword?

The only Skyward sword I will be having, will be plunging into a dragon as it flys past :flamethrower:

Excellent points all.

Just to follow up a bit, it's the 'journalist events' that are the real problem. Everyone talks about game reviewers 'getting paid' for favourable reviews, but doing that directly would be obviously illegal and a scandal waiting to happen. Instead, the game publishers invite the 'journalists' to spa retreats/5-star hotels. The publishers set each reviewer up in a room with top-of-the-line picture and sound equipment, give them great food/drinks, and then put them up in the hotel for a night. That way, everyone can credibly claim that they were never 'paid' for a review, but the benefits keep coming. How any 'journalist' is supposed to maintain their independence is beyond me.

Now to be fair, it doesn't look like Bethesda went that route for this release. But there are publishers who do this, and reviewers almost never mention that it happens because it would derail the gravy train. Ars Technica did a nice write-up on it a while ago, and it should be mandatory reading for gamers who read reviews.

I'd say if Skyrim generally scores in the 9.5 range, it's going to be amazing. 9.0 probably means it has some bugs and weak points. More than a few reviews between 8.5-9.0 will be cause for real concern.

This is actually a huge misnomer in this country. Thanksgiving Day was a proclamation by George Washington in 1789 in honor of the Constitution being ratified like, five minutes prior (actually more like two years).

I played and completed last years COD black ops on hardened, but to be honest, the genre is utterly flooded. It seems to me that every other game is a fps now. That and the yearly re-hashes of sports games with what are trumpeted as 'huge evolutionary changes'.....

bloody simpsons..i knew i shouldnt have believed them...lmao


but thanks for the heads up,all knowledge is learning and all learning is good

All I know is that black ops is much better than a horribly RPG called Final Fantasy VII

http://www.gamespot.com/finalfantasy7/platform/pc?tag=result;title;2

gotta love gamespot

EDIT: It isn't there anymore, but it used to be an 8 (PC version, exactly the same on PS but with better graphics)