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Paul Heslop wrote:
> massivegrooves wrote:
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>>>What worries me, both with Enthusia and Forza is the determination of
>>>reviewers to seem to be saying "I'm cool because I like this one and
>>>not GT4" or just seem to want to get ne over on Sony. There often seem
>>>to dismiss GT4 and its predecessors with hardly a glancing
>>>acknowledgement of just how much work they have done
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>>It is going to happen though, they have to compare them to some degree.
>>The key is not to go overbaord doing it and to keep it balanced and
>>focused. When they lose site of the one game the review is supposed to
>>be about going on and on about what the others have or do well then
>>forget to really tell you about what the game in question has, etc..
>>that is when I start to have a problem. I agree dissing a game or one
>>that has had a stronghold is something that is seemingly cool to some
>>folks. I don't care for it, just call it straight up is what I want to hear.
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> There just seems to be this need, specially with Forza, for it to beat
> GT4, which is by far the easiest of the GT games to beat as it didn't
> give all it promised. But I've seen reviews where they go on about
> Forza's 'avatar' and yet don't mention the fact that GT4 did it
> already with B-spec, and mostly it's the constant dismissal of the
> selection of vehicles. "200 is well enough" etc. It may be, but it
> ain't taking the crown.
It is always that way, and it stems from the my system is better than
yours, or mine has the better _________ game. (racing/FPS/etc..) Same
type thing like with Killzone and Halo, Killzone was supposed to be the
Halo killer or the PS2 equivalent of Halo. Same with this Forza is
supposed to be a GT killer, or the Xbox equivalent. I don't care...if it
is good I will buy it and play it.
> I see the need for the fanboys for one game to beat another, but all I
> want is good games, not for any one to knock another out of existence.
> That's the sad thing, these "This will be the nail in the coffin of
> Sony" etc type posts. It was sad for me when Amiga went belly up and
> even more so when Sega did so, and it's this need to destroy the
> others that brings it about. Sony get the blame for killing Sega, but
> I doubt they actually set out to do that.
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I don't think they did either, more that Sega had problems of various
types and severity. It was thier own doing, Sony just helped it along.