4/5 on G4? Is this fair? : Fallout: New Vegas

» Mon Mar 14, 2011 11:01 pm

http://g4tv.com/games/xbox-360/61733/fallout-new-vegas/review/

4/5. It should be 5/5 and ive never played the game yet! What the hell is this?! Was the reviewer drunk or something?!

» Tue Mar 15, 2011 4:56 am

Hate to break it to you, but I wouldn't give it a 5/5 either, although, Ive only put six or seven hours into it.

» Tue Mar 15, 2011 6:08 am

I've never understood that, how people people not feel like idiots saying "The rating should be X but I haven't played the game"?

» Tue Mar 15, 2011 2:06 am

Drunk or sober at least he has played the game and unlike yourself he is entitled to have an opinion about it.

» Tue Mar 15, 2011 12:38 am

They called the FO3 story "gripping". I read enough.

» Tue Mar 15, 2011 1:13 am

I've never understood that, how do people not feel like idiots saying "The rating should be X but I haven't played the game"?

Agreed wholeheartedly.

» Mon Mar 14, 2011 7:00 pm

Who cares if [_____insert person/company here______] gives it a score you wouldn't? When it comes right down to it, [_____insert person/company here______] is just 1 person's opinion of the game. All that matters is YOUR score.

I've played PLENTY of games I loved that got low scores. Gaming Portal sites are good for news and reviews. They should leave scoring to the viewer.

» Mon Mar 14, 2011 10:07 pm

4/5 is fair. Mainly because it doesnt bring a tremendous amount of new features, or breaks the mold of FO

» Tue Mar 15, 2011 1:44 am

Drunk or sober at least he has played the game and unlike yourself he is entitled to have an opinion about it.

Actually, everyone is entitled to their opinion, whether they play it or not (it may not hold as much weight with you since they didn't)

But I don't have to have an icepick slammed under my toenail to have an opinion that I wouldn't like the experience.

» Tue Mar 15, 2011 5:19 am

I think the very top of the score chart does need to be reserved for games that define, or redefine a genre. Super Mario 64, Half Life, etc. As one review site puts it "games everyone should play" No matter how great New Vegas is, I can't see it meeting that qualification as it is just "More" - not that there's anything wrong with more, but more isnt something new.

» Tue Mar 15, 2011 12:00 am

People have opinions. Doesn't matter unless you only PICK games by what people say. Unless like 20 people said it svcked.

» Tue Mar 15, 2011 1:57 am

Trust me G4 is run by a bunch of monkeys and getting a decent score on a game is difficult at the best of times. I wouldn't take too much stock in their ratings and would rely on more gamer friendly sites like gamefaq where players rate the games as well as write the reviews. Not some intern paid 7.50 an hour to site there and play the thing till their eyes bleed then write the review barely able to see what they are writing. X-Play went down hill after the 3rd year after they were absorbed into the conglomerate of G4TV.

» Tue Mar 15, 2011 2:18 am

What I don't agree with is that the reviewer here hasn't done any research:

As the saying goes, war never changes, and if the newest entry in the post-apocalypic series is any example, neither does Fallout.

The guy needs to Learn to Google. Fallout has changed plenty in its life.

» Tue Mar 15, 2011 12:33 am

Who cares if [_____insert person/company here______] gives it a score you wouldn't? When it comes right down to it, [_____insert person/company here______] is just 1 person's opinion of the game. All that matters is >YOUR< score.

I've played PLENTY of games I loved that got low scores. Gaming Portal sites are good for news and reviews. They should leave scoring to the viewer.

+1

» Tue Mar 15, 2011 4:29 am

4/5 is fair. Mainly because it doesnt bring a tremendous amount of new features, or breaks the mold of FO

I don't think bringing new features is necessary. GTA III, Vice City, and San Andreas are all (almost) exactly the same game and they all have Metascores of 95% or above.

Also, I have zero respect for the G4 people anyway. Adam Sessler is nothing but a loud-mouthed frat boy, IMO.

» Mon Mar 14, 2011 8:56 pm

Actually, everyone is entitled to their opinion, whether they play it or not (it may not hold as much weight with you since they didn't)

Everyone can have their opinion but the OPs is hardly valid in this instance. He hasnt even played FNV and hes giving it a 5/5 rating while saying someone who has played the game and given it a 4/5 is wrong.

How can someone rate something they havnt even experienced or even go on to criticise the opinions of others who have?

» Tue Mar 15, 2011 2:22 am

6/5 stars actually :intergalactic:

So yea GOTY Game Of The Year :fallout:

I mean look at what they gave Metroid Other M (Awesome Game) G4TTV Xplay is slipping up as of late :spotted owl:

Which is a shame cause I grew up with Xplay watching Adam Sessler and the very six Morgen Web :wub:

Hope they fix there act soon :brokencomputer:

» Tue Mar 15, 2011 3:36 am

Everyone can have their opinion but the OPs is hardly valid in this instance. He hasnt even played FNV and hes giving it a 5/5 rating while saying someone who has played the game and given it a 4/5 is wrong.

How can someone rate something they havnt even experienced or even go on to criticise the opinions of others who have?

I agree; but at first, people flat out told him "You can't have an opinion because you never played it."

I'm just saying "Yeah he CAN have an opinion of it, but it just won't hold much weight/validity with people because you haven't personally sampled it."

Like someone telling you a restaurant is really bad; you can choose to believe it, or you can go there and possibly find out that you had a great experience. People give you more credence when you've experienced something and then have an opinion vs. when you don't experience it.

» Tue Mar 15, 2011 8:27 am

They are entitled to their opinion. I go back and forth with even reading what G4 says. This is supremely hypocritical of me, but I think scoring a video game out of 5 is stupid. It should be out of 10 and including tenths of a point as well. It's hypocritical of me, because I don't care if anything else is graded out of 5. Not enough spread, it's either lame, passable, good or stellar.

» Mon Mar 14, 2011 11:43 pm

Drunk or sober at least he has played the game and unlike yourself he is entitled to have an opinion about it.

I've never played it yet so my opinion remains to be seen

that being said, I HATE X-Play, I haven't seen their reviews in the last year or so, but there was a time when I watched them religiously, when I did I gradually began to figure out that they are ridiculously biased, slanted and down-right lazy sometimes.

Perhaps they've changed since then, but from what I remember of them I don't take their reviews seriously, same goes for Gamespot and IGN.

Gametrailers and Game Revolution are the only reviews I really trust

» Tue Mar 15, 2011 1:54 am

They are entitled to their opinion. I go back and forth with even reading what G4 says. This is supremely hypocritical of me, but I think scoring a video game out of 5 is stupid. It should be out of 10 and including tenths of a point as well. It's hypocritical of me, because I don't care if anything else is graded out of 5. Not enough spread, it's either lame, passable, good or stellar.

Just multiply the score by 2! Booyeah!

» Mon Mar 14, 2011 9:48 pm

Opinions are like [censored] we all have one but all of them do not hold as much weight or do they?

» Mon Mar 14, 2011 7:13 pm

all i know or care about is that its definently GOTY contender. Its a gorgeous game, builds upon its predecessor, and though it doesnt redefine it (why fix whats not broken.... oh wait... they did WTF GIMME PERKS EVERY LEVEL) *clears throat* its still a gorgeous game, engrossing characters, deep story, and GIANT FRIGGAN RADIATED MUTANTS, WAYNE NEWTON, AND ITS VEGASSSSSSSSSS how its that not GOTY?

» Tue Mar 15, 2011 10:20 am

http://g4tv.com/games/xbox-360/61733/fallout-new-vegas/review/

4/5. It should be 5/5 and ive never played the game yet! What the hell is this?! Was the reviewer drunk or something?!

5/5 for gameplay, but the game doesnt deserve 5/5 as a whole, because as is common for Obsidian it is plagued by bugs and glitches and other problems that detract from the experience. I am largely enjoying the experience so far, and it is leaps and bounds better than FO3 in story and gameplay, but right now it is a buggy mess and should be called on being such until a patch is released.

» Tue Mar 15, 2011 12:55 am

Sad to say, but I agree.

Technical issues, be they plentiful and minor, or few but major, is the equivalent of spelling/grammatical errors on a professional website. They instantly drop the game's appeal and can be frustrating to deal with.