Archive Lurking
So I'm taking a break from some assembly coding and I decide to troll through my blog a bit and kind of review where it was 6 months ago (frequent posts) as opposed to where it is now (barren wasteland) and maybe think about what I can/should do to make it better.
What's that you say? Free time to read your own archived posts, but no time to post anything new, you lazy bum? Shaddup. It's my domain and I'll procrastinate if I want to.
Anyway, so I'm reading through some old posts of mine (yes, yes, I know it's vane) and I come upon my rant on GameSpy ranking Halo (Xbox) as the 10th most overrated game of all time. In my rant I declared that:
It'll be interesting to see how they rate the Halo PC release. I guarantee a rating no lower than 95 due to it's Internet multiplayer and the fact that its mouse and keyboard controlled, two things that every decent PC FPS game has had for years that no console FPS game had in 2001. So why is it held against Halo?Well, GameSpy reviewed Halo PC quite some time ago. While they no longer do percentage ratings, my prediction came true in that it did receive five freaking stars. The cons listed are the repetitive level design and hefty system requirements (both valid beefs).
While an 85% for the Xbox review mathematically translates in to 4.25 stars, I just can't help but feel that the PC version of Halo got the better review simply because it was a PC game and not an Xbox game. You could argue that the PC version received the higher score due to the Internet multiplayer factor, which was unavailable on the Xbox since Xbox Live was nowhere to be found. But then you'd have to give extra props to Xbox Halo for split screen action, system link capabilities, and (most importantly) Halo Co-op, which is missing on the PC version.
All that is, of course, besides the point. The 10th most overrated game of all time, if that is to be believed, has no business receiving a 5-star review. I always enjoyed the "Choose Your Own Adventure" books when I was a child and I'm now confident that they are the reason I was a great multiple choice test-taker in school. By now, you should know that I'm a big fan of letting people draw their own conclusions, so here's one for everyone:
The 10th most overrated game of all time (according to GameSpy) receives a perfect 5/5 star review (from GameSpy). From this we can conclude:
- Said game is not, in fact, overrated.
- Said review site is guilty of overrating.
- FVO is a raving lunatic with nothing better to do.
- All of the above.
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