re: Level Up's Top Four Gaming Tidbits for May 13th, 2008

SuperEffective — Tue, 13 May 2008 19:06:00 GMT

Village Voice = The suck. GTA is the emperor without clothes and poor Village Voice is the lone voice in the wilderness that tells it Like It Is?

Puh-leeze.

re: Level Up's Top Four Gaming Tidbits for May 13th, 2008

Etchasketchist — Tue, 13 May 2008 23:56:05 GMT

GTA IV has Bad Brains and Fela Kuti.

Why can't Rock Band?

re: Level Up's Top Four Gaming Tidbits for May 13th, 2008

SpaceShot — Wed, 14 May 2008 14:58:47 GMT

I love MetaCritic. It is a nothing site that averages scores that are on different scales with different biases to produce a score that is utterly worthless.

The only reason anyone pays attention to metacritic is because other people pay attention to it. It is the ultimate example of gamers paying attention to something because they think other gamers pay attention to it.

GTA IV is a fun game and I am really enjoying it. It is not without its problems and is by no means perfect. Our frustrations with multiplayer alone prove that point. Still, the establishment of Metacritic pressures everyone to outscore everyone else on it or risk being branded as wrong. That is silly. I imagine the lower reviews will be more informative than the higher ones. There are plenty f games rated 6.5 out there that I really enjoyed and by reading the review was able to understand the different taste in games the reviewer had than I did.

Let's just hope reviewers continue to write words and I'll continue to ignore scores.