Comments on: The Life and Times of Too Human http://www.ripten.com/2008/08/17/the-life-and-times-of-too-human/ All Your Geek Are Belong To Us Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:00:51 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Keane Ng http://www.ripten.com/2008/08/17/the-life-and-times-of-too-human/comment-page-1/#comment-52216 Keane Ng Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:34:07 +0000 http://www.ripten.com/?p=6808#comment-52216 @Jenzo, and @Nathan: I got the score wrong, which was my bad and has been fixed in the body text. But, if you look at Game Informer's scale - which I presume few people do - then you'll notice than a 7 is "average" and a 6 is "limited appeal". You know, technically, if it's a scale of 10, 5 would be average, so if 7 = 5, then 6 = 4, or something in that vicinity. Catch my drift? Thanks for the comment. Everyone knows GI's reviews are bogus anyway! Toodles~ @Jenzo, and @Nathan:

I got the score wrong, which was my bad and has been fixed in the body text.

But, if you look at Game Informer’s scale – which I presume few people do – then you’ll notice than a 7 is “average” and a 6 is “limited appeal”. You know, technically, if it’s a scale of 10, 5 would be average, so if 7 = 5, then 6 = 4, or something in that vicinity. Catch my drift?

Thanks for the comment. Everyone knows GI’s reviews are bogus anyway! Toodles~

]]> By: Nathan Grayson http://www.ripten.com/2008/08/17/the-life-and-times-of-too-human/comment-page-1/#comment-52141 Nathan Grayson Mon, 18 Aug 2008 08:16:08 +0000 http://www.ripten.com/?p=6808#comment-52141 Er, pretend there's an "@Jenzo" in front of my comment. Er, pretend there’s an “@Jenzo” in front of my comment.

]]> By: Nathan Grayson http://www.ripten.com/2008/08/17/the-life-and-times-of-too-human/comment-page-1/#comment-52140 Nathan Grayson Mon, 18 Aug 2008 08:14:14 +0000 http://www.ripten.com/?p=6808#comment-52140 He was making a joke. Frankly, though, I agree with him. Game reviews have a wonky ratings scale. I mean, let's look at a 5 out of 10. Most gamers would sooner abandon the gaming isle altogether than glance at the back cover of such a game, but mathematically speaking, the score is average, plain and simple. But logical our review system ain't. Thus, we're programmed to auto-scoff at anything below at 7 out of 10. tl;dr version: Remember Kane and Lynch? He was making a joke. Frankly, though, I agree with him. Game reviews have a wonky ratings scale. I mean, let’s look at a 5 out of 10. Most gamers would sooner abandon the gaming isle altogether than glance at the back cover of such a game, but mathematically speaking, the score is average, plain and simple. But logical our review system ain’t. Thus, we’re programmed to auto-scoff at anything below at 7 out of 10.

tl;dr version: Remember Kane and Lynch?

]]> By: frost http://www.ripten.com/2008/08/17/the-life-and-times-of-too-human/comment-page-1/#comment-52136 frost Mon, 18 Aug 2008 08:05:00 +0000 http://www.ripten.com/?p=6808#comment-52136 I enjoyed the Demo, though I was not BLOWN away by it. To me it appears to simply be an average game. Do I buy average games? Yes, I do. Does this game have problems with Cameras and Angles, yes it does...But so does most of the Triple A titles that come out from Square and Team Ninja. The thing that really might keep me from buying the game is this, It is supposed to be a Trilogy. Remember Advent Rising Trilogy...yeah just one game. Can you imagine Halo, just ending like it did? That would make me hesitate on buying this game. If it took 10 years for the first one to come out, are we really going to see 2 and 3? I would simply be happy with my 10 hours of game play if it just came to a suitable conclusion. Promises of a 2 and 3 game in a trilogy, mean nothing in this industry, just make your consumer happy and give them some sort of ending that doesn't leave them wondering, that is unless you can REALLY deliver part 2 and part 3! I enjoyed the Demo, though I was not BLOWN away by it. To me it appears to simply be an average game. Do I buy average games? Yes, I do. Does this game have problems with Cameras and Angles, yes it does…But so does most of the Triple A titles that come out from Square and Team Ninja. The thing that really might keep me from buying the game is this, It is supposed to be a Trilogy. Remember Advent Rising Trilogy…yeah just one game. Can you imagine Halo, just ending like it did? That would make me hesitate on buying this game. If it took 10 years for the first one to come out, are we really going to see 2 and 3? I would simply be happy with my 10 hours of game play if it just came to a suitable conclusion. Promises of a 2 and 3 game in a trilogy, mean nothing in this industry, just make your consumer happy and give them some sort of ending that doesn’t leave them wondering, that is unless you can REALLY deliver part 2 and part 3!

]]> By: Jenzo http://www.ripten.com/2008/08/17/the-life-and-times-of-too-human/comment-page-1/#comment-52134 Jenzo Mon, 18 Aug 2008 07:36:36 +0000 http://www.ripten.com/?p=6808#comment-52134 "Game Informer gives Too Human a 6.25 Scans leaked of the latest issue of Game Informer last week, and they featured a review of Too Human with the score of 6.25. Which would be above average by most rational scales, but is actually equivalent to about a 4 out of 10." First off, it was 6.75/10, not 6.25 as you wrote. Secondly, how is 6.75/10 equivalent to 4/10? Does that mean that their perfect score for MGS4 was actually equivalent to a 7 or 8/10? 7.25? “Game Informer gives Too Human a 6.25

Scans leaked of the latest issue of Game Informer last week, and they featured a review of Too Human with the score of 6.25. Which would be above average by most rational scales, but is actually equivalent to about a 4 out of 10.”

First off, it was 6.75/10, not 6.25 as you wrote. Secondly, how is 6.75/10 equivalent to 4/10? Does that mean that their perfect score for MGS4 was actually equivalent to a 7 or 8/10? 7.25?

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