Edge scores.

[wazy15]

Why don't you simply not buy the magazine marcus? Spoilers in reviews is so pathetic and low. Complete disrespect towards the reader.

Even though I disagree with their reviews, I still buy the mag for their features, which are pretty good.

[Edame]

Does this not ever get boring guys? I've been here over a year now, and this exact same thread (with the same arguements) gets re-hashed every month without fail.

[Brats]

Does this not ever get boring guys? I've been here over a year now, and this exact same thread (with the same arguements) gets re-hashed every month without fail.

You're not alone.

I would never ban threads like this, but it does seem like the same record is struck over and over. I dare everyone on this forum not to comment on Edge when next month's issue is released. I bet you can't do it .

[Madbury]

Well well well, what a lot of venom. It seems that review scores are a sore subject with a lot of people.

When I'm reviewing a game naturally the score and the review reflect my opinion of the game, but it is more complex than that, as I will adjust my stance to align myself with the intended audience for that game.

I assume that Edge give out reviews, to writers who have a passion for that particular genre. Reading the comments on here makes it all the more worrying then that VF4Evo was given a 7. Surely the reviewer should have been in a position to appreciate, if not fully explore the depth of the game.

I also disagree that scores do not matter. You have to remember that most of us are old enough and wise enough not to believe everything we read. However there will be a good slice of the gaming population out there who base their purchases on the review scores of magazines such as Edge. And at 40 quid a pop I think Edge have a journalistic duty to do the best job they can, (we're not talking about a ?5 cinema ticket here).

Perhaps then it would be better for them to no longer score their reviews or draw a line under the past and start a completely new ranking system, maybe using benchmark games.

[Sidez]

It's the review text that people can't stand as it's usually 99% bollocks or have ridiculous spoilers. The review score itself is just the icing on a very rancid cake.

[insin_]

It's the review text that people can't stand as it's usually 99% bollocks or have ridiculous spoilers. The review score itself is just the icing on a very rancid cake.

Er, that's prime arse-talkage there - Edge go to great lengths to avoid spoilers while still giving you a good idea of how the game plays. Please give me an example,with quotes, of a review where the contents have been "99% bollocks".

Compare that with GamesTM, who had a picture of Metroid Prime's last boss in their review.

[Concept]

Er, that's prime arse-talkage there - Edge go to grat lengths to avoid spoilers while still giving you a good idea of how the game plays. Please give me an example,with quotes, of a review where the contents have been "99% bollocks".

Yes, EDGE's Silent Hill 3 review was just fabulous in this department.

[recipher]

However there will be a good slice of the gaming population out there who base their purchases on the review scores of magazines such as Edge

It's not a particularly big slice. Most of the gaming population either don't use reviews at all, or they read OPM or OXM or NGC which mark games between 80-100% anyway

[sam1981]

Er, that's prime arse-talkage there - Edge go to grat lengths to avoid spoilers while still giving you a good idea of how the game plays. Please give me an example,with quotes, of a review where the contents have been "99% bollocks".

Yes, EDGE's Silent Hill 3 review was just fabulous in this department.

Haven't read the SH3 review, but have never come across a spoiler in the past. Been reading since issue 6.

[Concept]

Depends what you define as spoliers. Hints (which fans of a series) may pick up on, I consider are.

Revealing the detailed, specific structure at which the game unfolds I consider another spoiler.

I want to go into a game without knowing where I am going, or where I'll end up.

EDGE have just spoilt that for me. ><

[Sidez]

How about Silent Hill 2 then? Or Biohazard Zero in which they've shown a number of the bosses in both previews and the review? There are more examples but these two stand out right now. Spoiling Silent Hill 3 as well is just criminal.

[gozaimas]

It's the review text that people can't stand as it's usually 99% bollocks or have ridiculous spoilers. The review score itself is just the icing on a very rancid cake.

I really don't want to get into this but Sidez your unatural hatred of Edge and your apparent near evangelical duty to tell everyone how rubbish it is smells more than a little funny from where i'm sitting. Chip on the shoulder? If you're not careful you could undermine the respect people have for you from your repeated bile spitting in this thread.

[Concept]

Silent Hill 3 (semi) spoiler from EDGE review:

Mall, Subway, back to Silent Hill in the original hospital and school. That's what the review has told me. The first two I kind of guessed anyhow from previews, but I didn't want to know about the later two...

[Sidez]

It's the review text that people can't stand as it's usually 99% bollocks or have ridiculous spoilers. The review score itself is just the icing on a very rancid cake.

I really don't want to get into this but Sidez your unatural hatred of Edge and your apparent near evangelical duty to tell everyone how rubbish it is smells more than a little funny from where i'm sitting. Chip on the shoulder? If you're not careful you could undermine the respect people have for you from your repeated bile spitting in this thread.

LOL!

[Chadruharazzeb]

It is, as it always has been, Sidez' duty to spit bile.