Is IGN Biased?

[Ghengis John]

After Watching a Video Review of the ps3 version of Mass Effect 2 They gave it a 9.5 And one of the Cons were 'Late to PS3' Even through he talks about how this is one of the best versions with ALL the Dlc put into it. so we lost 0.5 because we were late.

Im not angry about it just seems a little unfair.

Little Big Planet Two got editor's choice. Woooooo. Horrible bias there.
http://ps3.ign.com/objects/019/019675.html
I'll tell you this, once you own both consoles, crap like that will hardly ever bother you. You will however still be bothered when a review is wrong or ignorant of a fact. Which brings me to my next point. there is no rule of law for reviews, no rubric to consult on the guidelines of what constitutes goodness. Which leaves things in the hands of human beings. Who are opinionated, subject to acting unfairly on their own whims and who can become pig headed and self-important. I once caught an IGN review where the girl doing the review got several facts about the game wrong, and didn't even know one of her biggest complaints was handled by the game if she took the time to read the dialogue boxes in conversation properly.

They never re-reviewed that product because they're gods and we're slobs so there.

So in the end, reviews vary wildly and staffs have a lot of personnel. Don't get too worked up about the points.

I know they gave Bayonetta a higher score on the 360 despite them being 100% identical. Most all multiplatform games get higher scores on the 360 despite being the exact same.

Obviously you haven't played the 360 version of Bayonetta, which is pretty much superior because of frame rate issues and such on the PS3. It isn't superior by a large margin, but it is the better version.

Worth noting that a lot of games have slowdown on the ps3. Soul Calibur IV for instance. Other games like Fallout 3 or dead rising 2 have jaggies and I can tell ya from my experience with the ps3 mass effect 2 there is slowdown in some shoot outs. The ps3 doesn't seem to handle particles too well. Might be you can only give the threads so many tasks. While that blu-ray can certainly hold larger textures they need to be non-compressed because they read slower than dvd's. This is why a lot of ps3 titles require a pre-install. And I don't know what's up with the jaggies on a lot of the games. All in all the Playstation seems to have it's fair share of problems and to this day multiplats aren't coming out identical.

 

[Soxafloppin]

yes. IGN is very biased. have you ever noticed how strongly backed by corporate advertisements they are? it should be obvious. :/

besides that, they said InFamous is better than prototype.

no. its not. both games should be judged independently of each other as each game has its own strengths and weaknesses. shows a PS3 bias right thar.

Well to be fair I played both and proffered Infamous.

 

[V8 Ninja]

My thoughts exactly:

Every review, program and thing you read is biased...its human nature

 

[Mr.Pandah]

Eh, at least they're better than Gametrailers. But I hate Gametrailers mostly for the sole reason that they're giving that fucktard Michael Pachter so much attention. My god that man is stupid. But then again, the whole site is stupid.


Just look at this shit.

I...I just...I wanted to rage so hard after watching that.

 

[Kortney]

I remember when Halo 2 came out it was getting perfect scores despite having numerous flaws, which the reviewer pointed out just before giving the game 10/10.

The number means nothing. Read the review itself.