Someone played Warpath? I laugh at you.
What Charles isn’t telling you is that he developed Warpath and got a $1M advance from the publisher on it.
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I did work on it before I got a much better job on a much better project, for a much better developer who actually cares about things like: making good games.
You must really have no self-respect if you’d work for a company that doesn’t care about making good games!
It didn’t seem that way when I started.
I believe you, I was just riffing on the “I don’t tell anyone I’m a gamer” thread.
They were saying it a lot during the last episode of the hotspot.
Wow, this took me by surprise. I hope things work out well with his new endeavor.
I’ll be sorry to see Greg go… to me as well he was pretty much the face/voice of Gamespot.
I like the Gamespot reviews and playing guides enough to have subscribed, since I found myself using the site so often. Whenever someone mentions a game I don’t know about, my default is to read the Gamespot review. Whenever I’m playing a game and it’s clear I’m missing some key aspect, my first action is to download the Gamespot game guide.
I never had that much sense of who was at Gamepot, but it’s hard to remember a review that wasn’t done by Greg. I do hope this doesn’t reduce the value of the site for me.
I tolerate the Gamespot podcast, but it’s close to being on the chopping block…the same one that 1UP Yours recently fell subject to.
I don’t hate him. I just quite often disagree with his reviews. Gears of War a 9.6? What?! Let’s curb our enthusiasm. Another recent blunder is giving Zelda an 8.8. I remember disagreeing quite often over the years.
Let me guess, Zelda deserves an 11?
Actually, I thought the 8.8 for TP was about right (excepting general objections I have to the 7-9 scale.)
Commence pile-on.
What the hell happened with DE anyhow? One minute they were a blue chip developer of sorts and the next they are doing , well…Warpath.
I don’t even want to touch on Dark Sector…who knows what that’ll be next week…
If TP is an 8.8, then I don’t know what would get a 9 or 10. Seriously, how can you not put TP along with the top of the pack?
Saying that it’s not different enough from previous Zeldas doesn’t change the fact that it’s a top tier game.
- Chick said it took like 10 hours to get to the fun part
- How bad is an 8.8 on the 7 to 9 scale, really?
It deserved a mid-9.
8.8 is high for a game that took ten hours to get to the fun stuff. I traded in my copy.
The age old question from movies is do critics make good film makers? Now let’s apply that to gaming. I really think that knowing what’s good or bad in a game someone else made doesn’t always translate to the skill of being able to design them yourself. I guess we’ll see.