[The Diva]

Originally Posted by Nowhere Man What he said....or, ummm, smileyed, or whatever. As for The Diva's remarks, you must be watching a different show than us, because most of the reviews I've seen from the show are pretty much spot on. Their view on the games is a lot different than most others because they cater more towards the casual gamers instead of the die-hard elite like most gaming sites and magazines. And while Morgan doesn't seem to know a damn thing about what she's saying, at least Adam seems to. And I don't know what the hell games you consider great, but if your "awful" games are the ones that are getting 5 out of 5, then you've probably got some pretty fucked up taste in gaming, since they only reserve that for stuff like Kotor (when you get me to play an RPG, you know it's good) or Ninja Gaiden. Yeah, the humor is usually pretty crappy, and Morgan irritates the hell out of me, but the actual reviews are pretty damn accurate.

Ok, the thing about sites and magazines catering to the 'die-hard elite gamers': It's because they are the people that actual spend all the time on their sites, pay for their subscriptions, etc. same goes for the magazines and that's who you want to market to. As for their reviews, they are bad, their biasedness usually comes in. I mean Tony Hawk Underground got a what, 4 or so? that was my least favorite game of the series and the load times on the PS2 version are some of the worst. Then there are things like Fatal Frame 2, Soul Calibur 2, and Viewtiful Joe which were just bad games, there was this really horrible game they gave a 5 out of 5 and praised up the ass the name escapes me at the moment though. They are right on sometimes, though it's not like it's hard to give KotOR a high score, anybody who has played it can tell you how hot it is. Yes I can be given the 'but that's in your own opinion' shit but we all know that is just a waste of time to argue about.

The thing about the show that is the worst is as I said before, the biasedness of it, Adam will review a game, rave about it, obviously a fan boy, said the only thing is the not so great loading time that brings it down but it can be overlooked, then other times he just reviews it half-assedly and says the loading time is kinda bad '2 out of 5' or something like that, though they could have the exact same specs. When I play a game, I base it on you know the actual game, I liked the first Fatal Frame and Soul Calibur, the sequels sucked though, I'm know for being an uber Legacy of Kain fan, yet after waiting for Defiance and actually playing it I was a little... not completely satisfied. Also Adam claiming to dislike RPG's is annoying, he reviews alot of them and usually gives them good scores, more biasedness. And I was serious before about the 15 minute thing, in most games that seems to be where all the footage is from, or footage we've seen before from the trailors or what have you. Even my little 14 year old brother knows the show is ignorant.

I've been doing this video game thing for a long time buddy, don't give me WWE: Crush Hour and tell me it's Twisted Metal.