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Ok So I got my Gamecube and I was pleasantly surprised, I knew the Gamecube would be the greatest Games console on earth but I didn’t expect it to happen yet, Super Monkey Ball and Star Wars Rogue Squadron 2: Rogue Leader proved me wrong. But despite how good the games present at Gamecube’s launch were, I still know now what I’ve known for the past 6 months, the best is yet to come.
Whilst we play with our Monkey Balls, Fly in our X-wings and suck things up with our hover, people such as myself are looking at the bigger picture. By the end of this year we won’t be playing Super Monkey Ball (Now I know someone will pop up and say “yeah we’d be playing Super Monkey Ball 2”) we will in fact be playing Starfox Adventures, Resident Evil, Eternal Darkness, Animal Crossing, Super Mario Sunshine, Soul Calibur, Turok Evolution, Metroid Prime, Vexx, F Zero etc… etc… now these games are and will be AAA smash hit games that we will love, treasure and herald as the greatest games ever and compare them to games like Luigi’s Mansion and Wave Race? I am shocked at the majority of magazines and websites awarding Luigi’s Mansion a whopping 90% (CUBE magazine were more realistic with 75%), we have given Luigi’s Mansion a high score yet adventure games such as Virtual Fighter RPG, Zelda, Zelda Ocarina of Time remake, Super Mario Sunshine, 6 Resident Evil games, Eternal Darkness, Animal Crossing, Vexx, Final Fantasy, Kameo Elements of Power and Wario’s World, which will be many times better can only improve on the formulae by 10%.
Lets face it Resident evil: Biohazard will receive around 95% going on the reviews that I’ve read but this game is much more than 5% better than Luigi’s Mansion. Super Mario Sunshine will be the biggest Nintendo release this year (there are several major Nintendo releases this year but that is the biggest). But according to NGC and Nintendo Official Magazine it can only be 10% better than Luigi’s Mansion and there is no way Mario Sunshine will be perfect. CUBE magazine awarded Super Monkey Ball 93% and NGC magazine awarded it 92%, now I doubt very much Super Monkey Ball 2 will be as high as 96% and so Super Monkey Ball 2 won’t seem much better than its prequel. What I do not understand is why magazines and certain websites think that some games deserve 91% e.g. Star Wars Rogue Squadron 2: Rogue Leader in NGC and others will reach 95% + like Zelda and Resident Evil when clearly the latter’s deserve to be more than 4% higher. To be honest we cannot blame magazines though it’s more on how their percentage system works. Many magazines still use the 10/10 system, it is the most basic system that is useful for quick reviews such as the ones you can read in Special Reserve, it simply tells you that the game is excellent, but in magazines we want to know which game is the best and a percentage tells all. For example lets say one magazine awards Mario a huge 10/10 score which it probably will get then the 6 months later we get our hands on Zelda, which for arguments sake is much much better than Mario Sunshine, how will people know this by the score, 10/10 yeah so its as good as Mario then? Edge awarded Halo 10/10 so when Halo 2 hops along what will that get 10/10 as well???
A Percentage has to be used but then needs to be a overhaul of the system, so far Luigi’s Mansion has got mainly 90%, a score it does not deserve, the 75% CUBE magazine awarded it is far more accurate. Unfortunately 75% is seen as a very poor grade indeed, Luigi’s Mansion is a very good game and 75% is a very good score but nobody ever see’s that. 50% is an awful grade to some people when in fact it is telling you that the game is average, 51% is above Average! There needs to be a lowering of scores or we will be getting 95.6% score lines soon, it is amazing how small a gap it is between 75% and 76% than compared with 91% and 92%. When NGC magazine was N64 magazine they did something very clever, as the games got older their mark was reduced, some games that got dated by a far superior sequel went down, so when Mario Sunshine is released it would get 93% for example and Luigi’s Mansion will drop (these are evident from the mini reviews of all games at the back of the magazine). So when Halo 2 comes out Halo the original could drop to 9/10 in Edge magazine. I still believe there needs to be an awareness that a 75% game is good, Conker’s Bad Fur Day got 88% and I was mortified, why? 88% is a storming must have title but I didn’t see that as all the other adventure games around it was scoring in the 90’s even if they didn’t deserve to be there.
The fact is Super Monkey Ball, Star Wars Rogue Squadron 2, Luigi’s Mansion, Wave Race: Blue Storm, Burnout and Tony Hawks Pro Skater 3 all received 90% or above and this is on a console where the greatest games, the most memorable titles don’t come out until the last 5 months of the year and deep into 2003 and beyond… it simply doesn’t make sense but if those titles didn’t score into 90% then the Gamecube would be seen as a bad console with no good launch titles which is simply not true… I hope to see the re-release of NGC will sort out the percentage problem magazines worldwide are suffering from.
Here’s to the future
Dringo.
Whilst we play with our Monkey Balls, Fly in our X-wings and suck things up with our hover, people such as myself are looking at the bigger picture. By the end of this year we won’t be playing Super Monkey Ball (Now I know someone will pop up and say “yeah we’d be playing Super Monkey Ball 2”) we will in fact be playing Starfox Adventures, Resident Evil, Eternal Darkness, Animal Crossing, Super Mario Sunshine, Soul Calibur, Turok Evolution, Metroid Prime, Vexx, F Zero etc… etc… now these games are and will be AAA smash hit games that we will love, treasure and herald as the greatest games ever and compare them to games like Luigi’s Mansion and Wave Race? I am shocked at the majority of magazines and websites awarding Luigi’s Mansion a whopping 90% (CUBE magazine were more realistic with 75%), we have given Luigi’s Mansion a high score yet adventure games such as Virtual Fighter RPG, Zelda, Zelda Ocarina of Time remake, Super Mario Sunshine, 6 Resident Evil games, Eternal Darkness, Animal Crossing, Vexx, Final Fantasy, Kameo Elements of Power and Wario’s World, which will be many times better can only improve on the formulae by 10%.
Lets face it Resident evil: Biohazard will receive around 95% going on the reviews that I’ve read but this game is much more than 5% better than Luigi’s Mansion. Super Mario Sunshine will be the biggest Nintendo release this year (there are several major Nintendo releases this year but that is the biggest). But according to NGC and Nintendo Official Magazine it can only be 10% better than Luigi’s Mansion and there is no way Mario Sunshine will be perfect. CUBE magazine awarded Super Monkey Ball 93% and NGC magazine awarded it 92%, now I doubt very much Super Monkey Ball 2 will be as high as 96% and so Super Monkey Ball 2 won’t seem much better than its prequel. What I do not understand is why magazines and certain websites think that some games deserve 91% e.g. Star Wars Rogue Squadron 2: Rogue Leader in NGC and others will reach 95% + like Zelda and Resident Evil when clearly the latter’s deserve to be more than 4% higher. To be honest we cannot blame magazines though it’s more on how their percentage system works. Many magazines still use the 10/10 system, it is the most basic system that is useful for quick reviews such as the ones you can read in Special Reserve, it simply tells you that the game is excellent, but in magazines we want to know which game is the best and a percentage tells all. For example lets say one magazine awards Mario a huge 10/10 score which it probably will get then the 6 months later we get our hands on Zelda, which for arguments sake is much much better than Mario Sunshine, how will people know this by the score, 10/10 yeah so its as good as Mario then? Edge awarded Halo 10/10 so when Halo 2 hops along what will that get 10/10 as well???
A Percentage has to be used but then needs to be a overhaul of the system, so far Luigi’s Mansion has got mainly 90%, a score it does not deserve, the 75% CUBE magazine awarded it is far more accurate. Unfortunately 75% is seen as a very poor grade indeed, Luigi’s Mansion is a very good game and 75% is a very good score but nobody ever see’s that. 50% is an awful grade to some people when in fact it is telling you that the game is average, 51% is above Average! There needs to be a lowering of scores or we will be getting 95.6% score lines soon, it is amazing how small a gap it is between 75% and 76% than compared with 91% and 92%. When NGC magazine was N64 magazine they did something very clever, as the games got older their mark was reduced, some games that got dated by a far superior sequel went down, so when Mario Sunshine is released it would get 93% for example and Luigi’s Mansion will drop (these are evident from the mini reviews of all games at the back of the magazine). So when Halo 2 comes out Halo the original could drop to 9/10 in Edge magazine. I still believe there needs to be an awareness that a 75% game is good, Conker’s Bad Fur Day got 88% and I was mortified, why? 88% is a storming must have title but I didn’t see that as all the other adventure games around it was scoring in the 90’s even if they didn’t deserve to be there.
The fact is Super Monkey Ball, Star Wars Rogue Squadron 2, Luigi’s Mansion, Wave Race: Blue Storm, Burnout and Tony Hawks Pro Skater 3 all received 90% or above and this is on a console where the greatest games, the most memorable titles don’t come out until the last 5 months of the year and deep into 2003 and beyond… it simply doesn’t make sense but if those titles didn’t score into 90% then the Gamecube would be seen as a bad console with no good launch titles which is simply not true… I hope to see the re-release of NGC will sort out the percentage problem magazines worldwide are suffering from.
Here’s to the future
Dringo.
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NOM are likely to be biased towards nintendo games. I dont trust any of thier reviews anyway. How they could give South PArk 90% is beyond me. Some of them reviews have to be fixed...
Using the NON system I would definitely give Luigi 90%. Luigi is as good as most stuff that they gave a 90% score for the N64. Using a proper system I would give it 75%ish.
Doesnt really matter though. As long as you yourself do your research about a game from many sources you will know which games are killa and which are just filla.
Using the NON system I would definitely give Luigi 90%. Luigi is as good as most stuff that they gave a 90% score for the N64. Using a proper system I would give it 75%ish.
Doesnt really matter though. As long as you yourself do your research about a game from many sources you will know which games are killa and which are just filla.
I still like NOM - but i dont like the sound of the gameplay for Sunshine. A bit .. kiddyish? Too early to tell, I guess.
Nice post
Nice post
Hear, hear!
Ok So I got my Gamecube and I was pleasantly surprised, I knew the Gamecube would be the greatest Games console on earth but I didn’t expect it to happen yet, Super Monkey Ball and Star Wars Rogue Squadron 2: Rogue Leader proved me wrong. But despite how good the games present at Gamecube’s launch were, I still know now what I’ve known for the past 6 months, the best is yet to come.
Whilst we play with our Monkey Balls, Fly in our X-wings and suck things up with our hover, people such as myself are looking at the bigger picture. By the end of this year we won’t be playing Super Monkey Ball (Now I know someone will pop up and say “yeah we’d be playing Super Monkey Ball 2”) we will in fact be playing Starfox Adventures, Resident Evil, Eternal Darkness, Animal Crossing, Super Mario Sunshine, Soul Calibur, Turok Evolution, Metroid Prime, Vexx, F Zero etc… etc… now these games are and will be AAA smash hit games that we will love, treasure and herald as the greatest games ever and compare them to games like Luigi’s Mansion and Wave Race? I am shocked at the majority of magazines and websites awarding Luigi’s Mansion a whopping 90% (CUBE magazine were more realistic with 75%), we have given Luigi’s Mansion a high score yet adventure games such as Virtual Fighter RPG, Zelda, Zelda Ocarina of Time remake, Super Mario Sunshine, 6 Resident Evil games, Eternal Darkness, Animal Crossing, Vexx, Final Fantasy, Kameo Elements of Power and Wario’s World, which will be many times better can only improve on the formulae by 10%.
Lets face it Resident evil: Biohazard will receive around 95% going on the reviews that I’ve read but this game is much more than 5% better than Luigi’s Mansion. Super Mario Sunshine will be the biggest Nintendo release this year (there are several major Nintendo releases this year but that is the biggest). But according to NGC and Nintendo Official Magazine it can only be 10% better than Luigi’s Mansion and there is no way Mario Sunshine will be perfect. CUBE magazine awarded Super Monkey Ball 93% and NGC magazine awarded it 92%, now I doubt very much Super Monkey Ball 2 will be as high as 96% and so Super Monkey Ball 2 won’t seem much better than its prequel. What I do not understand is why magazines and certain websites think that some games deserve 91% e.g. Star Wars Rogue Squadron 2: Rogue Leader in NGC and others will reach 95% + like Zelda and Resident Evil when clearly the latter’s deserve to be more than 4% higher. To be honest we cannot blame magazines though it’s more on how their percentage system works. Many magazines still use the 10/10 system, it is the most basic system that is useful for quick reviews such as the ones you can read in Special Reserve, it simply tells you that the game is excellent, but in magazines we want to know which game is the best and a percentage tells all. For example lets say one magazine awards Mario a huge 10/10 score which it probably will get then the 6 months later we get our hands on Zelda, which for arguments sake is much much better than Mario Sunshine, how will people know this by the score, 10/10 yeah so its as good as Mario then? Edge awarded Halo 10/10 so when Halo 2 hops along what will that get 10/10 as well???
A Percentage has to be used but then needs to be a overhaul of the system, so far Luigi’s Mansion has got mainly 90%, a score it does not deserve, the 75% CUBE magazine awarded it is far more accurate. Unfortunately 75% is seen as a very poor grade indeed, Luigi’s Mansion is a very good game and 75% is a very good score but nobody ever see’s that. 50% is an awful grade to some people when in fact it is telling you that the game is average, 51% is above Average! There needs to be a lowering of scores or we will be getting 95.6% score lines soon, it is amazing how small a gap it is between 75% and 76% than compared with 91% and 92%. When NGC magazine was N64 magazine they did something very clever, as the games got older their mark was reduced, some games that got dated by a far superior sequel went down, so when Mario Sunshine is released it would get 93% for example and Luigi’s Mansion will drop (these are evident from the mini reviews of all games at the back of the magazine). So when Halo 2 comes out Halo the original could drop to 9/10 in Edge magazine. I still believe there needs to be an awareness that a 75% game is good, Conker’s Bad Fur Day got 88% and I was mortified, why? 88% is a storming must have title but I didn’t see that as all the other adventure games around it was scoring in the 90’s even if they didn’t deserve to be there.
The fact is Super Monkey Ball, Star Wars Rogue Squadron 2, Luigi’s Mansion, Wave Race: Blue Storm, Burnout and Tony Hawks Pro Skater 3 all received 90% or above and this is on a console where the greatest games, the most memorable titles don’t come out until the last 5 months of the year and deep into 2003 and beyond… it simply doesn’t make sense but if those titles didn’t score into 90% then the Gamecube would be seen as a bad console with no good launch titles which is simply not true… I hope to see the re-release of NGC will sort out the percentage problem magazines worldwide are suffering from.
Here’s to the future
Dringo.
Whilst we play with our Monkey Balls, Fly in our X-wings and suck things up with our hover, people such as myself are looking at the bigger picture. By the end of this year we won’t be playing Super Monkey Ball (Now I know someone will pop up and say “yeah we’d be playing Super Monkey Ball 2”) we will in fact be playing Starfox Adventures, Resident Evil, Eternal Darkness, Animal Crossing, Super Mario Sunshine, Soul Calibur, Turok Evolution, Metroid Prime, Vexx, F Zero etc… etc… now these games are and will be AAA smash hit games that we will love, treasure and herald as the greatest games ever and compare them to games like Luigi’s Mansion and Wave Race? I am shocked at the majority of magazines and websites awarding Luigi’s Mansion a whopping 90% (CUBE magazine were more realistic with 75%), we have given Luigi’s Mansion a high score yet adventure games such as Virtual Fighter RPG, Zelda, Zelda Ocarina of Time remake, Super Mario Sunshine, 6 Resident Evil games, Eternal Darkness, Animal Crossing, Vexx, Final Fantasy, Kameo Elements of Power and Wario’s World, which will be many times better can only improve on the formulae by 10%.
Lets face it Resident evil: Biohazard will receive around 95% going on the reviews that I’ve read but this game is much more than 5% better than Luigi’s Mansion. Super Mario Sunshine will be the biggest Nintendo release this year (there are several major Nintendo releases this year but that is the biggest). But according to NGC and Nintendo Official Magazine it can only be 10% better than Luigi’s Mansion and there is no way Mario Sunshine will be perfect. CUBE magazine awarded Super Monkey Ball 93% and NGC magazine awarded it 92%, now I doubt very much Super Monkey Ball 2 will be as high as 96% and so Super Monkey Ball 2 won’t seem much better than its prequel. What I do not understand is why magazines and certain websites think that some games deserve 91% e.g. Star Wars Rogue Squadron 2: Rogue Leader in NGC and others will reach 95% + like Zelda and Resident Evil when clearly the latter’s deserve to be more than 4% higher. To be honest we cannot blame magazines though it’s more on how their percentage system works. Many magazines still use the 10/10 system, it is the most basic system that is useful for quick reviews such as the ones you can read in Special Reserve, it simply tells you that the game is excellent, but in magazines we want to know which game is the best and a percentage tells all. For example lets say one magazine awards Mario a huge 10/10 score which it probably will get then the 6 months later we get our hands on Zelda, which for arguments sake is much much better than Mario Sunshine, how will people know this by the score, 10/10 yeah so its as good as Mario then? Edge awarded Halo 10/10 so when Halo 2 hops along what will that get 10/10 as well???
A Percentage has to be used but then needs to be a overhaul of the system, so far Luigi’s Mansion has got mainly 90%, a score it does not deserve, the 75% CUBE magazine awarded it is far more accurate. Unfortunately 75% is seen as a very poor grade indeed, Luigi’s Mansion is a very good game and 75% is a very good score but nobody ever see’s that. 50% is an awful grade to some people when in fact it is telling you that the game is average, 51% is above Average! There needs to be a lowering of scores or we will be getting 95.6% score lines soon, it is amazing how small a gap it is between 75% and 76% than compared with 91% and 92%. When NGC magazine was N64 magazine they did something very clever, as the games got older their mark was reduced, some games that got dated by a far superior sequel went down, so when Mario Sunshine is released it would get 93% for example and Luigi’s Mansion will drop (these are evident from the mini reviews of all games at the back of the magazine). So when Halo 2 comes out Halo the original could drop to 9/10 in Edge magazine. I still believe there needs to be an awareness that a 75% game is good, Conker’s Bad Fur Day got 88% and I was mortified, why? 88% is a storming must have title but I didn’t see that as all the other adventure games around it was scoring in the 90’s even if they didn’t deserve to be there.
The fact is Super Monkey Ball, Star Wars Rogue Squadron 2, Luigi’s Mansion, Wave Race: Blue Storm, Burnout and Tony Hawks Pro Skater 3 all received 90% or above and this is on a console where the greatest games, the most memorable titles don’t come out until the last 5 months of the year and deep into 2003 and beyond… it simply doesn’t make sense but if those titles didn’t score into 90% then the Gamecube would be seen as a bad console with no good launch titles which is simply not true… I hope to see the re-release of NGC will sort out the percentage problem magazines worldwide are suffering from.
Here’s to the future
Dringo.
Page: