IGN is paid off by publishers such as EA and Activision to give favorable reviews to their titles. Their integrity as gaming journalists is absolutely nil.

Quote: VolcanPolkano on 05/25/2012, 09:41 PM

I read the article, don't see where they are saying anything that isn't true. It just seems that the reveiwer doesn't enjoy the monotonoy of the game. A lot of the stuff the reveiwer brought up is the same stuff people talked about on here, only those threads were deleted,locked,vanished without a trace. Nice to now someone is saying the same things on a major outlet that Enmasse can't delete or ignore.







Lets be real Tera is the exact same MMO format we've all played before only this time the combat is difference and it's prettier. That's old format isn't cutting it because it's a tired format. I'd be lying if I said these quest didn't put me to sleep.

It's funny because TERA already revolutionized combat in an MMO, but I guess that's just not good enough. It has to revolutionize questing too. Meanwhile, games like Guild Wars 2 are going to come out that do something "new" with quests and I guarantee they're going to get a 9.0+ from IGN while doing absolutely nothing different with combat, and it's just going to be glossed over as "that's the way combat is in MMOs".



Heck, look at Diablo III. It revolutionized nothing (it's about as generic a dungeon crawler as you can get) and it gets a 9.5 overall score from IGN with a solid 10 for gameplay. Yeah, they're real concerned with "tired formats"...

Quote: Keiichi81 on 05/25/2012, 10:05 PM

Quote: VolcanPolkano on 05/25/2012, 09:41 PM

I read the article, don't see where they are saying anything that isn't true. It just seems that the reveiwer doesn't enjoy the monotonoy of the game. A lot of the stuff the reveiwer brought up is the same stuff people talked about on here, only those threads were deleted,locked,vanished without a trace. Nice to now someone is saying the same things on a major outlet that Enmasse can't delete or ignore.







Lets be real Tera is the exact same MMO format we've all played before only this time the combat is difference and it's prettier. That's old format isn't cutting it because it's a tired format. I'd be lying if I said these quest didn't put me to sleep.

It's funny because TERA already revolutionized combat in an MMO, but I guess that's just not good enough. It has to revolutionize questing too. Meanwhile, games like Guild Wars 2 are going to come out that do something "new" with quests and I guarantee they're going to get a 9.0+ from IGN while doing absolutely nothing different with combat, and it's just going to be glossed over as "that's the way combat is in MMOs".



Heck, look at Diablo III. It revolutionized nothing (it's about as generic a dungeon crawler as you can get) and it gets a 9.5 overall score from IGN with a solid 10 for gameplay. Yeah, they're real concerned with "tired formats"...

No, I'm saying that TERA is a set of new shoes on the same old horse. Just because it has new shoes isn't going to change it into a brand new horse. TERA feels stale because it is stale. It's the exact same do this get that stuff that people are tired to death of because every game does it and has been doing it for a long time now, even console games started have done it. Look at Borderlands,TwoWorlds2,Kingdoms of alumar. That lazy go here do that stuff is just an easy way for these devs to get around adding actual engaging content. It's like being a gopher or an errand boy/girl and these are kill time quests.

If you noticed the newer change in MMO's is removing that dull do this do that quest and actually go for an engaging story. They are doing that because they know people are tired of doing the same thing. Tera does offer it's "realtime" combat which is a novelty. If you already play console action RPG's alot like I do as I love them the most it's not all that amazing/mind blowing. It's fun yes but it's nothing to pop champagne over.

If that review article was bs and the reveiwer was talking about stuff I didn't recognize myself I'd be calling them stinky doodoo. But it's not that way at all. They pointed out a lot of flaws with the game as it currently stands and even right out the gate most people knew this game wasn't for everyone. 6.5 is plenty accurate. Especially considering some of the problems with Enmasse and what they've done or have been neglecting to do that is more than a generous score.

IGN is just as fair as everyone else. Don't get upset at them because they don't praise everything you seem to like. I'm also tired of people talking about GW2 because these people have no clue what GW2 is really about. If people don't have GW1 and have never played it they should really stop mentioning it because GW2 is a 10/10. It's everything we wanted GW1 to be. To people just comming off of other MMO's never having ever played GW1 in their life they wouldn't even understand. They'd be to busy compairing it to WoW or whatever else is onsale at Bestbuy and the game isn't about that at all. It started out as a game Anet started making as an answer to everything people complained about or wanted to see in GW1 then somehow it just started to become the next Messiah and it really is if your a GW fan.

IGN isn't fair at all. You can essentially buy a review from them no matter how bad the actual game is. This is partially due to Metacritic and how that works; a game can be great, but if it doesn't have at least an 85 on Metacritic people will get fired.

Honestly, I would love a games publisher to give every game they come across a 10/10, especially if a game doesn't deserve it, so people would actually bother to read the review instead of just looking at a number. As far as I'm concerned with TERA, it has a good amount of potential and the combat system is genuinely enjoyable.

Submit real proof that IGN scores are bought, please. Something other than "I heard it through a friend/a random post on the internet/my mailman".

Biased claims of biased reviews = cute, but pathetic.

Quote: EdgeTO on 05/26/2012, 09:55 AM

Submit real proof that IGN scores are bought, please. Something other than "I heard it through a friend/a random post on the internet/my mailman".

Biased claims of biased reviews = cute, but pathetic.

It's common sense not rumors, besides the fact that past employees have told us this happens. Find the links and evidence on Your own like the rest of us did years ago.

Quote: PearlGore on 05/26/2012, 09:59 AM

Quote: EdgeTO on 05/26/2012, 09:55 AM

Submit real proof that IGN scores are bought, please. Something other than "I heard it through a friend/a random post on the internet/my mailman".

Biased claims of biased reviews = cute, but pathetic.

It's common sense not rumors, besides the fact that past employees have told us this happens. Find the links and evidence on Your own like the rest of us did years ago.

In other words, you can't deliver any real proof. Only speculation.

Common sense? Would that be the same "common sense" that suggests your support must be the result of a pay off? /tinfoilhat

Reviews are just subjective. A reviewer disagreeing with you is no more shocking than the next forum poster over disagreeing with you. What a review is supposed to do is explain why they feel the way they do about a product, and this IGN review has attempted to do that. Personally, I agree with most everything he said for reasons that are very similar to those listed in the article. If anything, I think his score may have been a bit generous.

I guess they failed to pay me off too?

You are very new to the world of game reviews clearly.