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  ACY3 | April 02, 2008
  You can rarely trust game reviews, no matter where they're from. A game review is just one persons view on a game, and their opinion is quite possibly different to yours, so choosing whether or not to buy a game solely based on a handful of game reviews is just poor guesswork. There have been several games I've played and movies I've watched that I thoroughly enjoyed, but found later that they have average scores and some truly bad reviews on places like Metacritic. I still think of those games / movies in the same light, I just think less of reviews in general now.
  
  Really, if you like the look of a game and want to know what it's like, either download a demo or go out and buy/rent it. In the least, it'll keep you entertained for a few hours, even if done poorly. Or, if you want a half-decent quantitative measure of a game, look at average user scores. A mass of players count for more than a handful of reviewers.
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  jmac353 | April 02, 2008
  Mario is better than Halo, anyone that fails to see this just fails in general. Come on. The first 2 Halo games are solid but highly overrated, Halo 3 is the only one worthy of its praise.
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  Silver Mirror | April 02, 2008
  jmaz stop trying to start a fight
  
  As ACY3 said I too rarely trust reviews. I find it better to look at a range of user reviews. You get a more open view that way
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    jmac353 | April 02, 2008
    How am I trying to start a fight? It's a fact. Get off my nuts. What if I had said, "what the *bleep*?!?! Halo is amazing! I mean Mario is good and all, but Halo is just on another level."
    
    See things from both sides and stop being so ridiculous. Thumbing me down and what not.
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  Seeker X | April 02, 2008
  You do realize that:
  
  Mario - Platformer
  
  Halo - Shooter
  
  It's like trying to compare Ratchet and Clank with Rainbow Six Vegas.
  
  Either way, I've been trying to tell people that mainstream reviews are nothing to take seriously in the past, this only reinforces my point anyways.
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    jmac353 | April 02, 2008
    It's difficult but possible. Mario helped pave the way for videogames, we're talking the whole industry.
    Halo didn't do anything except get a whole lot of non-gamers into a pretty average game. Like, big props to Halo for getting a lot more people into gaming, but they should have still recognized it for the average FPS that it truly is.
    
    Reviews suck though, they shouldn't be number based and I'm a firm believer in that. You can make up all the different reasons you want but at the end of the day all the reviewer should say is whether or not they enjoyed the game. That's all that matters. If only people weren't so lazy and the majority actually read more reviews then review scores wouldn't be such a problem.
    
    All too often people rely on simply some stupid numerical value rather than actually reading what the people have to say which is so much more informative.
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  Silver Mirror | April 02, 2008

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  Mario is better than Halo, anyone that fails to see this just fails in general

  Your basically saying anyone who doesn't agree with you is a failure. I really don't give a *bleep* about whether you said Halo or Mario is better. It's just that with a attitude like that a flame war is bound to start sooner or later. You are also hypocritical
  
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  How am I trying to start a fight? It's a fact
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  kspiess | April 03, 2008
  Well no one says the reviewing a game is an exact science. But personally I'd prefer a score out of a 100 than a review with no numbers attached to it. You know that a game with 50 out of 100 score is going to suck, regardless of what your tastes are, and that game that scored 90 out of 100 is at least worth checking out.
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  Gothic Girl | April 11, 2008
  I agree with all the points except the part about Metacritic/Gamerankings. I never really pay attention to single reviews as they are only one person's opinion. But it's handy seeing multiple people's opinions on a game, then having the scores/ratings averaged out to one big score. Heck, looking at the picture above, 72 sites reviewed Mario Galaxy and it still got a 97/100. That gives me a fair idea on whether the game is good or an absolute failure.