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"Aha, I just love Paper Mario"

"Wow, Mario that's incredible. I've never seen something that humungous before!"

I love this game.

You cannot judge a game by half hours play a games fair... All websites tend to play test the game and deliver a preview.

That's more of a review than a preview though.
"Pre" being a prefix for "before"
"Re" is a prefix for "after/again".

So preview is before you play it, review after it.
And since you'd already "tested" them, it's more of a review than a preview.

Crumble wrote:
> Suppose.
>
> But GAD has now become such a random competition.

It never used to be, the best writers used to win all the time. Lately a lot of random people are winning GAD's...

You can tell though when they're judging fairly, people like Rickoss win...

Or maybe I'm just jealous because I used to win 10 a year and I've only won 1 this year.

The latter sounds realistic.

munn wrote:
> Technically they're not reviewing it though.
> It's apreview, not a review.
> And a preview can be completely wrong.

Well the 2 previews I have won with were written after I went to the ECTS. So I did play it and judge on it.

Yuss, I agree on this front.

But still fail to see the problem, people can still be misguided by reviews. Cube magazine gave Star Fox Adventures 94%...

Yes, but you couldn't be 100 percent then it would be that good, could you?

I refer you again to my SF Adventures example. Everyone thought it would be ultimate, but it just, wasn't.

If I reviewed Paper Mario 2 today it would get a ten, or a nine at the very least.

I guess you could look at it that way.
But then, someone who read it, knowing nmothing else would think "Oh, it's been given 10/10, it's a good game" and then buy it, and it turns out to be a disappointment. They won't be happy, and could go annoy SR for it.

But it's in the past now.
I don't care.

I really don't mind people posting previews.

They can always write a review if they went wrong again.

munn wrote:
> But a preview doesn't show any insight into how the game plays.
> Starfox Adventures ooked to be one of the best games ever, at first.
> What use is a preview to someone wanting to buy a game?
> They want to know if it's good to play.
>
> Guh.

This is my view on it:

Why do SR give out GADs? To boost sales/site appeal.

Then surely a good preview is going to encourage gamers reading it to pre-order the game if they think it sounds like the right choice for them.

If I didn't post the preview under the game name I'd have only stuck it somewhere on the Nintendo forum anyway, and then it'd still be eligible for GAD.