I never understood the complaints against the "too much water" criticism. There IS too much water in Hoenn, and its highlighted by that annoying surf music as well. It doesn't matter if it "makes sense", it wasn't executed well. I love the ocean and exploring it has always been a fantasy of mine, but it could have been done better.

Yeah, Kallie Plagge's infamous review was actually pretty reasonable, in hindsight. The hubbub was simply over the fact that she proceeded to give OR/AS the score it probably deserved (7.8), which is the lowest a main series Pokémon game has ever received by a big publisher like IGN.

So, even though 7.8 is above average, it may as well have been a 2/10 according to the Internet and die-hard Pokémon fans in general. She liked the game--but she refused to give it an automatic 9/10 just for being a Pokémon game (like everyone else would've done). It was an audacious move, and in retrospect, I respect her for that.

However, the phrasing "too much water" is pretty retarded, sensational, and meme-worthy. What she meant was that there were too many water routes with absolutely nothing to do in them but battle boring trainers who all use the same boring Water-type Pokémon, of which there was an abundance throughout the game. But because of the way she phrased it, people assumed that she was just an idiotic aquaphobe or some shit.

Closing the distance between the important maritime destinations would've been the best thing to do. Her other (extremely valid) issue was the over-abundance of HMs--of which Gen III had almost ten--that OR/AS refused to change.

Which probably means enemies can use it, too.

Awful.

Skip to 1:12:00 for the legitimate criticisms of the movie.

does he ever combat the idiots who claim that rey is a mary sue

or is he one of them

Quote from: Verbatim on October 02, 2016, 02:17:57 PM

Unbelievable.

Johnson?

Yeah.

To my knowledge, Jill Stein hasn't made any major gaffs, so that's... nice.

Where do I write center

Like so:

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Always have (center) be the outermost tag, otherwise it'll create a mess.

Anyway, pretty decent review. I felt like you could've gone a little more in-depth--you never really brought up the child/adult Link thing, the items, the enemies, the characters, the dungeons, the atmosphere, etc. I mean yeah, like you said--there's not a whole lot about this particular game that hasn't been said a million times already, but I still feel like there are certain key things about the game that should be addressed regardless, if not for the sake of having a fuller review.

Sometimes it's nice to hear someone's thoughts on the finer details of the game, especially if you have something unique to bring to the table (but it's okay if you don't).

I know you have a Pokémon review lined up next, but do you think you'll be reviewing other Zelda titles?

I honestly don't get all the hate b.lind got. It wasn't any more whit than Twitter or Reddit. It just wasn't what people were used to.

It was more the ugly-ass UI for me. And the glitchy interface. And the destruction of private groups and scripts, e.g. Coup.

Here you can put in a few more for me.

Uncharted 4: 5/5
Quantom Break: 2/5
No Mans Sky: 3/5
Deus Ex mankind Devided: 4/5
Abzu: 5/5
Doom: 5/5
Homefront The Revolution: 1/5
Far Cry Primal: 3/5
The Division: 4/5
Umbrella Corps: -1/5

Write some reasonably in-depth assessments for each game in a separate thread, and I'll be glad to add them. This is an archive for reviews, not just scores. They can be mini-reviews if you wanna save time.

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Big Boss's OoT review added.

Quote from: Verbatim on October 02, 2016, 01:02:13 PM

two more weeksssssssssssssssss

for what?

corocoro

Class only acts stereotypical as an overcorrectional response to the site's humoured extreme conservatism.

that's me

So the site will be turned from a bunch of liberal yahoos complaining about stupid shit

You don't know anything about this website.

Quote from: Prime the Stampede on October 01, 2016, 11:29:15 PM

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Quote from: Dio on October 01, 2016, 09:07:14 PM

TFW you can pick out a handful of what Neko and Psy are saying but not enough to fully understand.

That's when you know you should kill yourself.

And take Prime with you

I can kill myself, thank you.

No you can't, last time you tried you were just hanging there

woah

Bump.

Thank you.

I'm gonna do Gen 3 soon

Nice.

"If the stance or opinion is edgy or unpopular, we all know Verb is going to either agree with it or support it. "

This is fact

that's just because the popular solution is literally never right

click here

find ONE intelligent statement