Edge scores
Jim Taylor
how it'll work out...
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deKay
2003 12:53:47 +0100, sefini jorgo geanyet des mani yeof do
uk.games.video.misc, yawatina tan reek esk sp...@gbafaq.co.uk (Jim Taylor)
fornis do marikano es bono tan el:
>There aren't any, they've dropped the scores for this month only. Wonder
>how it'll work out...
Erm, why?
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> There aren't any, they've dropped the scores for this month only. Wonder
> how it'll work out...
>
How very odd, brave, and daring. Or something.
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Angus MacCulloch
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> Soni tempori elseu romani yeof helsforo nisson ol sefini ill des
> Thu, 15 May 2003 12:53:47 +0100, sefini jorgo geanyet des mani
> yeof do uk.games.video.misc, yawatina tan reek esk
> sp...@gbafaq.co.uk (Jim Taylor) fornis do marikano es bono tan el:
>
>>There aren't any, they've dropped the scores for this month only.
>>Wonder how it'll work out...
>
> Erm, why?
To differentiate themselves from GamesTM which has been stealing
their thunder recently?
Angus.
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> There aren't any, they've dropped the scores for this month only.
> Wonder how it'll work out...
What a pain, I don't want to read a whole review of a bad game, I just want
to see that it's got 2/10 and then move on to reading about higher rated
games...
Zathras
sp...@gbafaq.co.uk:
> There aren't any, they've dropped the scores for this month only. Wonder
> how it'll work out...
>
>
> Jim
Hmm, I heard they did print them at the back of the mag or something?
gordon
Yep, at the end of the reviews section.
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Matthew Eastaugh
> >>Wonder how it'll work out...
> >
> > Erm, why?
>
> To differentiate themselves from GamesTM which has been stealing
> their thunder recently?
They have, but to be honest this is one of the best issues they've had in
AGES. I'm very impressed.. tho it has sucked time away from revision. And
besides, the scores are there. And just to prove it:
Soul Calibur II - 9/10
Amplitude - 8/10
Silent Hill 3 - 7/10
P.N.03 - 7/10 (but read my note later!)
Eve Online: The Second Genesis - 8/10
Breath Of Fire: Dragon Quarter - 7/10
Dodonpachi: Dai-Ou-Jou - 8/10
MotoGP: URT2 - 8/10
Clock Tower 3 - 3/10
Vietcong - 5/10
Golden Sun: The Lost Age - 6/10
Made In Wario - 7/10
World War II: Frontline Command - 5/10
Dynasty Warriors 4 - 7/10
Medieval: Total War - Viking Invasion - 7/10
Tao Feng: Fist Of The Lotus - 5/10
And there were six additional reviews of P.N.03..
Zy Nicholson 6/10
Ste Curran 5/10
Owain Bennallack 7/10
Kieron Gillen 4/10
Margaret Robinson 6/10
Simon Byron 5/10
..however, those reviews were all based on 15mins play only, and are only
200 words long. It's for a feature on game reviewing in the magazine, see,
which is actually very interesting. And that's also the reason behind the
lack of easily identifiable scores, which are printed a bit further on.
Well, I think it's a good issue. 9/10. :P
Matthew
Charlatan Festoon
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>There aren't any, they've dropped the scores for this month only. Wonder
>how it'll work out...
Really? After defending the practice of scoring to the hilt and beyond
on their forum they do this.
Very strange.
Still, bravo and all that.
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<mat...@webbedSPAMsite.co.uk> wrote:
>Made In Wario - 7/10
7/10? Okay, it's a bit short but the game is bloody amazing
Kramer
I'm quite looking forward to this game. However, when you say "short", is
there any replayability at all? High scores? Multiplayer etc?
I was looking forward to some Track and Field-a-like high score/fastest
times beating.....
K.
MongolHunter
Jim Taylor typed:
> There aren't any, they've dropped the scores for this month only.
> Wonder how it'll work out...
>
>
> Jim
You have to admit that they don't sit on their laurels. Popular forum is
gone away for an unknown time. They try out new stuff with the reviews. New
editions of Edge coming out from left or right about the future and past of
consoles. Taking the hard-line with publishers and developers and not giving
in to hype. Still full of themselves though and GamesTM is making headway to
become some proper competition.
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Rev. Stuart Campbell
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> Made In Wario - 7/10
They should be killed.
Halo-
>I'm quite looking forward to this game. However, when you say "short", is
>there any replayability at all? High scores? Multiplayer etc?
>
>I was looking forward to some Track and Field-a-like high score/fastest
>times beating.....
There is some replayability to see how many games you can complete
before failing - with them getting more and more difficult until you
lose. There are also some simple multiplayer games (2-on-1 GBA) but
there isn't any fastest times as they are each 5 seconds long :D
I do, however, agree that it's one of those games that you can stop
playing and come back to and love it all over again. Of course that's
without counting the games you can unlock, including a full version of
Dr. Mario and an absolute ton of other stuff.
Charlatan Festoon
<get....@spam.bastards>-ization:
>> Made In Wario - 7/10
>
>They should be killed.
But why? Too much or too little?
Is it the dreaded 73% or damning wih faint praise?
Halo-
<mkiely...@dol.ie> wrote:
>But why? Too much or too little?
>Is it the dreaded 73% or damning wih faint praise?
I'd guess too little as I haven't seen a person who doesn't like the
game.
Schnide
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> deKay <an...@lofi-gaming.org.uk> spouted thusly in
> news:5v27cvom04p8658f1...@4ax.com:
>
> > Soni tempori elseu romani yeof helsforo nisson ol sefini ill des
> > Thu, 15 May 2003 12:53:47 +0100, sefini jorgo geanyet des mani
> > yeof do uk.games.video.misc, yawatina tan reek esk
> > sp...@gbafaq.co.uk (Jim Taylor) fornis do marikano es bono tan el:
> >
> >>There aren't any, they've dropped the scores for this month only.
> >>Wonder how it'll work out...
> >
> > Erm, why?
>
> To differentiate themselves from GamesTM which has been stealing
> their thunder recently?
I'd call it blatant plaigiarism myself, but then you're the law student..
Oh and the Peter Molyneux cartoon every month - is that in any way
whatsoever remotely funny OR factual?
Schnide
Schnide
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What has happened to Edge? Does the below explain why it's become so shite
and let GamesTM pull the rug from under it?
> Simon Byron 5/10
Veteran of The One Amiga - very funny on that mag but why there in Edge?
Isn't he in PR now anyway? Or is it a guest appearance from the Batfan?
>
> Kieron Gillen 4/10
Unfunny untalented Future-whore, that seals Edge's fate as far as I'm
concerned.
More excessive random bile etc etc etc
Schnide
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> Angus MacCulloch <a.macculloch@ma*{spam}*n.ac.uk> wrote in message
> news:Xns937C91E88F76Fa...@130.88.203.19...
> > deKay <an...@lofi-gaming.org.uk> spouted thusly in
> > news:5v27cvom04p8658f1...@4ax.com:
> >
> > > Soni tempori elseu romani yeof helsforo nisson ol sefini ill des
> > > Thu, 15 May 2003 12:53:47 +0100, sefini jorgo geanyet des mani
> > > yeof do uk.games.video.misc, yawatina tan reek esk
> > > sp...@gbafaq.co.uk (Jim Taylor) fornis do marikano es bono tan el:
> > >
> > >>There aren't any, they've dropped the scores for this month only.
> > >>Wonder how it'll work out...
> > >
> > > Erm, why?
> >
> > To differentiate themselves from GamesTM which has been stealing
> > their thunder recently?
>
> I'd call it blatant plaigiarism myself, but then you're the law student..
>
He's the law LECTURER, I think you'll find. Now was that libel, slander,
or defamation? ;-)
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> Soni tempori elseu romani yeof helsforo nisson ol sefini ill des Thu, 15 May
> 2003 12:53:47 +0100, sefini jorgo geanyet des mani yeof do
> uk.games.video.misc, yawatina tan reek esk sp...@gbafaq.co.uk (Jim Taylor)
> fornis do marikano es bono tan el:
>
>
>>There aren't any, they've dropped the scores for this month only. Wonder
>>how it'll work out...
>
>
> Erm, why?
>
ugvm for three months now about how games are reviewed in comparison to
films, books, and other arts, and they decided to steal my thunder. Gits.
Tim (tm)
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> But why? Too much or too little?
> Is it the dreaded 73% or damning wih faint praise?
Way too little. I'd kick their faces off at Moles tonight for it, but the
cowards are all hiding at E3.
Tony Gowland
> whatsoever remotely funny OR factual?
It's funny, if not factual. Molyneux hasn't made anything good in a very
long time, but insists on spouting off about what everyone else is doing
wrong. He deserves an ego deflation.
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Anthony Chapman
<sp...@gbafaq.co.uk> writes
>There aren't any, they've dropped the scores for this month only.
>Wonder how it'll work out...
Check the last page of reviews. All the scores are there.
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deKay
uk.games.video.misc, yawatina tan reek esk Tim Miller
<ne...@economic-truth.co.uk> fornis do marikano es bono tan el:
>> Erm, why?
>>
>Because they know full well that I've been working on an article for
>ugvm for three months now about how games are reviewed in comparison to
>films, books, and other arts, and they decided to steal my thunder. Gits.
I wish these magazines would stop nicking stuff from ugvm :)
Angus MacCulloch
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> In article <ba0v3k$nm675$1...@ID-82604.news.dfncis.de>,
> "Schnide" <REMOVEschni...@btinternet.com> wrote:
>
>> Angus MacCulloch <a.macculloch@ma*{spam}*n.ac.uk> wrote in
>> message news:Xns937C91E88F76Fa...@130.88.203.19...
>> > To differentiate themselves from GamesTM which has been
>> > stealing their thunder recently?
>>
>> I'd call it blatant plaigiarism myself, but then you're the law
>> student..
>>
>
> He's the law LECTURER, I think you'll find. Now was that libel,
> slander, or defamation? ;-)
It was a libel *and* defamation :-0
I'd like to think I looked young enough to be mistaken for a student,
but I'd be kidding myself.
OJLim
<snip>
Reading the reviews without the scores was interesting. Made In Wario read
like it should've got an 8 or 9 really.
Oh, and Amplitude sounds great. I never played Frequency either, although
I've seen a lot of people rave about it here. Is it available cheap on
PAL?
-OJ
Matthew Eastaugh
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> What has happened to Edge? Does the below explain why it's become so
shite
> and let GamesTM pull the rug from under it?
>
> > Simon Byron 5/10
>
> Veteran of The One Amiga - very funny on that mag but why there in Edge?
> Isn't he in PR now anyway? Or is it a guest appearance from the Batfan?
>
> >
> > Kieron Gillen 4/10
>
> Unfunny untalented Future-whore, that seals Edge's fate as far as I'm
> concerned.
>
> More excessive random bile etc etc etc
See, maybe you should actually read the accompanying article to see why
these two are reviewing PN03.. even if it's just standing in a newsagent.
After all, if one guy writing under 200 words on one occasion seals a
magazine's fate for you...
(I'm lucky I didn't mention Stuart Campbell being quoted a couple of times
in this issue too, I guess...)
Matthew
James Sutherland
news:Xns937D9B96184FCsm...@130.133.1.4
> sp...@gbafaq.co.uk (Jim Taylor) wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> Reading the reviews without the scores was interesting. Made In Wario read
> like it should've got an 8 or 9 really.
>
> Oh, and Amplitude sounds great.
It's bloody brilliant, yes.
> I never played Frequency either, although
> I've seen a lot of people rave about it here. Is it available cheap on
> PAL?
I've not seen it around for a while now, to be honest. Just had a quick
look at a couple of sites, and it still seems to be going for close to
full price. Might be worth waiting for/importing Amplitude now, as it's
better anyway.
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Kramer
> "OJLim" <oj...@lineone.net> wrote in message
> news:Xns937D9B96184FCsm...@130.133.1.4
>
>> sp...@gbafaq.co.uk (Jim Taylor) wrote:
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>> Reading the reviews without the scores was interesting. Made In
>> Wario read like it should've got an 8 or 9 really.
>>
>> Oh, and Amplitude sounds great.
>
> It's bloody brilliant, yes.
THIS, and this alone, is the reason I regret getting rid of my PS2.
Frequency was one of my fave games.
What have they changed? What's better?
K.
Kramer
Oh that's sounds alright. Ha, I didn't really mean fastest times for Wario,
I meant in terms of the Track and Field analogy ; )
Dr. Mario, while not one of my fave puzzlers, will do for a nice extra. I
like the challenge of unlocking stuff in *most* games.
K.
OJLim
I'm sold. It's ordered. Crap, I have no money.
-OJ
Charlatan Festoon
<get....@spam.bastards>-ization:
>> But why? Too much or too little?
>> Is it the dreaded 73% or damning wih faint praise?
>
>Way too little. I'd kick their faces off at Moles tonight for it, but the
>cowards are all hiding at E3.
I've just read a review of it. It looks like comedy excellence.
Charlatan Festoon
<to...@nospamplease.com>-ization:
>> Oh and the Peter Molyneux cartoon every month - is that in any way
>> whatsoever remotely funny OR factual?
>
>It's funny, if not factual. Molyneux hasn't made anything good in a very
>long time, but insists on spouting off about what everyone else is doing
>wrong. He deserves an ego deflation.
Um, Black and White?
Stewart Smith
> We have a cure for your iso-lation, it's called "Tony Gowland"
> <to...@nospamplease.com>-ization:
>
>
>>>Oh and the Peter Molyneux cartoon every month - is that in any way
>>>whatsoever remotely funny OR factual?
>>
>>It's funny, if not factual. Molyneux hasn't made anything good in a very
>>long time, but insists on spouting off about what everyone else is doing
>>wrong. He deserves an ego deflation.
>
>
> Um, Black and White?
>
Ach, that's just populous with (big) pokemon...
Stewart
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> concerned.
I'm always pleased when people who slag me off demonstrate a stupendous lack
of taste where other writers are concerned as well.
Charlatan Festoon
<nos...@ee.ed.ac.uk>-ization:
>>>It's funny, if not factual. Molyneux hasn't made anything good in a very
>>>long time, but insists on spouting off about what everyone else is doing
>>>wrong. He deserves an ego deflation.
>>
>> Um, Black and White?
>>
>Ach, that's just populous with (big) pokemon...
I meant it in the ego-deflation sense. All those promises, none
delivered.
James Sutherland
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(Amplitude)
> THIS, and this alone, is the reason I regret getting rid of my PS2.
> Frequency was one of my fave games.
>
> What have they changed? What's better?
The individual changes are mostly small stuff - they've just generally
cleaned everything up and made it all more logical - but it all comes
together to make the game play a lot better than Frequency.
The big changes are that the tube is now flat, which changes stuff a bit
as you can't wrap around from the last track to the first. Also, the
scratch and axe tracks are gone, replaced by a freestyle pickup that you
can trigger when you want. The logic behind when tracks turn back on is
changed (a track now stays off for a fixed number of bars then comes back
on again) which makes planning your route through the song much easier (I
never understood how it worked in Frequency).
As I say, nothing on its own sounds like a big change, but it really is a
big improvement over the original, IMO.
Some of the new songs are insanely fast, too.
Trooper
says...
As much as I disagree with your posting style on usenet, I did agree
with your comments in edge this month. I like the scores in edge, every
piece of information given in a review is there to help people
understand the opinion of the reviewer, the score is just another piece
of information. Reading the prose on it's own is almost as stupid as
just looking at the score, they are both part of the same whole.
T.
Chris Whitworth
> Oh and the Peter Molyneux cartoon every month - is that in any way
> whatsoever remotely funny OR factual?
As a developer who is sick of hearing Peter Molyneux spouting off every bloody
month about how amazing and revolutionary his new slightly tweaked variation
on Populous is going to be, I find it hilarious.
Chris
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