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IGN's Cheers & Tears: Fighting Games

Discussion in 'Console' started by InstantOverhead, Aug 23, 2009.

  1. InstantOverhead

    InstantOverhead Well-Known Member

    IGN just put up a list of the best fighting games on the X-360 and the worst fighting games on the system.

    On the list of best games we have DOA4, Blazblue, SFIV, MvC2HD, and of course VF5 Online. Here's a snippet of the writeup on VF5:

    More free press for the VF series...and without question this would have been written about VF5R had it been out on consoles. VF5 version B is also on the PS3's best list as well.
     
  2. Kamais_Ookin

    Kamais_Ookin Well-Known Troll

    PSN:
    Kyooboona
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    Kamais Ookin
    It's good to know that the VF series hasn't been completely forgotten, and when they think that lot's of people feel that VF5 is the most technically accomplished 3D fighter imagine what they would say about the improvements that VF5R made from that!
     
  3. Jide

    Jide Joe Musashi Silver Supporter

    PSN:
    Blatant
    Yie ar kung fu is a classic...
    How dare IGN put that down as one of the worst fighting games..
     
  4. Feck

    Feck Well-Known Member Content Manager Akira

    Especially when they list DoA4 as one of the best o_O
     
  5. Fulan

    Fulan Well-Known Member

    pretty terrible list
     
  6. SuperPanda

    SuperPanda Well-Known Member

    It is a pretty terrible list. HDR > SF4. DoA shouldn't even be there, GG > BB. etc.

    They also got their facts wrong: Namco broke into the arcade scene via Soul Edge, and Tekken was a side project? Uhhh nope. 'twas the other way 'round idiots.

    Kind of reminds me of those "Top 10 car choices of celebrities", and then most of it is made up of generic Lexus', Inifiti's, and whatever silly hybrid they seem to fancy.

    People who have no clue, shouldn't review.
     
  7. SDS_Overfiend1

    SDS_Overfiend1 Well-Known Member

    Matter of factly i can use a DOA5 come december time.
     
  8. Sharp7

    Sharp7 Well-Known Member

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    Sharp J7
    god... all the "WHERE IS SC4" comments are annoying (although i guess its prob close to or better then DOA4..)

    the vf hate in the comments is so annoying... ONE comment out of 5 pages acknowledges its the best fighter ever.. it rele is "as good as a fighter can get".. while there are 5ish+ comments saying its bad, sigh... (Although VF really needs a REAL story mode, seriously..)

    and damn all the comments for BlazBlu rele make me wanna get it...
     
  9. SuperPanda

    SuperPanda Well-Known Member

    DoA is such an inferior game it's not even funny.

    DoA's like the Mortal Kombat of 3D Fighters. It was never about the gameplay.
     
  10. Ash_Kaiser

    Ash_Kaiser Marly you no good jabroni I make you humble... Bronze Supporter

    If you saw IGN's review of BlazBlue, it was bound to be in their best fighting games on 360. They pretty much put it on a pedestal and kissed it's rear end repeatedly.

    The fact that DOA4 was in the best games part and their comments on KOFXII were enough for me to not make me take it too seriously.
     
  11. InstantOverhead

    InstantOverhead Well-Known Member

    The reason IGN gave Blazblue a high score was because the limited edition DVD/BD of Blazblue has a giant IGN logo pop up when you play the disc and an IGN employee narrates the entire thing. You think they would let IGN put their brand in the game and have Jessica Chobot narrate the special disc and then give the game a bad (aka honest) score?

    Bias there at IGN for Blazblue? Yeah I think so. Aksys or whatever made a deal with IGN to have their logo be in the special edition disc. In exchange, the person who works for IGN, who is a huge GG fan, reviewed the game and gave it a positive score. At least in the review the guy admits to being a huge GG fan and not being objective whatsoever with his BB review.

    But that being said IGN rarely gives objective reviews anyways (not that most other major outlets do either) so it's hardly anything new with them.
     
  12. Xzyx987X

    Xzyx987X Well-Known Member

    I miss EGM... They were the only outlet left that gave unbiased reviews.
     
  13. _Denkai_

    _Denkai_ Well-Known Member

    Well with all the hate on VF5 (the many comments) then maybe that will convince some of you guys on why Sega won't release R.
     
  14. Shag

    Shag Well-Known Member

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    ShagPSN
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    Shagnificent
    I love it too. I've been playing this since it debuted in the arcade. I still play it on my DS occasionally.
     
  15. AnimalStaccato

    AnimalStaccato Well-Known Member

    I disagree with this, if you look at the average score for metacritic IGN is usually pretty close.
     
  16. Feck

    Feck Well-Known Member Content Manager Akira

    I've never trusted IGN's reviews, they said God Hand is one of the worst games they've ever played [​IMG]

    Also the amount of shit developers get from their publishers because of metacritic is unreal.
     
  17. AnimalStaccato

    AnimalStaccato Well-Known Member

    How do you mean?
     
  18. Feck

    Feck Well-Known Member Content Manager Akira

    Basically if their game gets below an 80% on metacritic, then their publishers will give them hell. Even refusing to fund further games, cancelling projects and in some cases closing the studio that developed them.

    The quality of the game doesn't matter at all, the publishers just use metacritic to judge the performance of the games they're financing.

    There was a big article about in Gamestm, they spoke to lots of developers about it and they all was saying the same stuff.
     
  19. Kiuju

    Kiuju Well-Known Member

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    JOHNNYDANGE12
    I remember reading that. The article also questioned the validity of metacritic.
     
  20. AnimalStaccato

    AnimalStaccato Well-Known Member

    Hm well that's kinda a safe way to do it. A bit short sited sure but what do you expect? The people who finance the games won't be anywhere near them or share any of the same love for them as the people who play them. That's buisness man, how it's always been except instead of metacritic they used to use contractors, analysts.

    Wouldn't mind reading the article though.
     

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