It's actually pretty simple. A bad game is one you quit in disgust after a level or two because you can't take it anymore. A boring game is one where you stop playing after a level or two because you just don't care. So you just rate it based on how far you got before you stopped playing. 1 being a game you finish and 10 being a game where you get bored before the end of the first level/episode/chapter/whatever.Casual Shinji said:It would be interesting to watch you try and rate boredom on a scale of 1 to 10 though.
Yes,a unfunny parody of Hollywood bipolar disorder might end up exaggerating his claims once in a while. Or always.babinro said:Then again, it's entirely possible the game isn't as bad as Angry Joe makes it sound.
Yeah, I'm surprised that didn't make the list as well. The whole thing was a mess--and it still all hasn't been fixed yet AFAIK.Mahoshonen said:What about Sim City, Jim? How come that didn't make your list?
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I think the game pretty much shows off that some people just shouldn't be in charge, regardless of their contributions. Cerny's a lovely individual, he's had his hands in countless beloved IPs, I love his energy for making games, I still don't mind him offering his support for any game dev that wants it. BUT... he's not director material. Keep him as a designer, a programmer, hell even a producer, something he has experience in. I feel he had too much creative control in Knack, and wanted to make something I can only call Retcon Retro, something seriously old-school with a new coat of paint. I just don't think you can do that with platformers anymore, because for that genre 'retro' is just a nice way of saying 'simple', which doesn't work like it did in 1996.gigantor21 said:Really glad he called out Knack on the insipid bullshit spouted by Cerny and Sony to cover their asses. That they dared to speak of it in the same terms as the old Spyro games, and had the nerve to use the "kid's game" excuse in the wake of the industry's long history of excellent family-friendly titles, was deeply insulting to me. Super Mario 3D World being something kids could play hasn't stopped it from being a GOTY-contender (and winner, for Eurogamer).
Great video.
When I first read about ATB, I quite literally facepalmed. I mean, we gamers are pretty much inured to barely-disguised cash-grabs by now, but this game didn't even bother to attempt the "disguise" part, and basically came right out and said "It's Final Fantasy, now give us your money".ShirowShirow said:SO GLAD ALL THE BRAVEST GOT TOP HONORS. That game was essentially Square Enix trying to rip people off using nostalgia as bait.
I don't see what's wrong with shitting on a game like that once in a while, but I also can't see a justification for Jim Sterling using multiple spots on his list just for "HEY, IOS, YOUR GAMES BLOW". Decent chance all the bravest only got a spot because it was made by a real established publisher and not some shitty IOS dev. I mean the game has an average metacritic user score of 1.8, the highest review is a 10 saying "This AMAZINGLY FLAWLESS MASTERPIECE IS THE BEST! Money disposal simulator.", the game is probably about as awful as Joe says it is. If Jim went off that though, he could probably fill the whole list with IOS games.Zachary Amaranth said:Yes,a unfunny parody of Hollywood bipolar disorder might end up exaggerating his claims once in a while. Or always.babinro said:Then again, it's entirely possible the game isn't as bad as Angry Joe makes it sound.
His review makes it sound like a good number of non-free "freemium" games, which in turn makes it sound like he's only butthurt because it's Star Trek. Which sounds like our Joe.