The Shrine

http://www.gamerankings.com/htmlpages4/932684.asp

It is getting reviews in the 8's and the 9's. IGN gave it an 8.5. Now I am interested, perhaps this is the next game that should be on the list to get.

Wasn't IGN the review site where they plotted all of their review scores on a graph and almost all of them fell within the 7-10 range?

Still looks cool and if other sites are giving it good reviews maybe it's worth a look.

Lox wrote:Wasn't IGN the review site where they plotted all of their review scores on a graph and almost all of them fell within the 7-10 range?

Still looks cool and if other sites are giving it good reviews maybe it's worth a look.

Not IGN:

http://ds.ign.com/index/reviews.html

Maybe you are thinking of Gamespot?

IGN is notorious for having a review range between seven and ten. Their DS section may be the exception.

I find IGN pretty awful overall. Gamespot I consider to be the sensible uncle of online videogame journals: level-headed, consistent, rational, but fairly boring. I go to 1UP for almost all of my gaming news and reviews now.

The thing about all other sites is that they tend to get their news from IGN and Famitsu. Gamespot has a tendency for reporting a lot of false and misleading news. The one plus about Gamespot is that they will do some of their own interviews, but they still do not have NEARLY as much industry contact as IGN does.

IGN is the only site where the developers and business people in the gaming Industry treat the staff as friends rather than reporters.

And you know this... how?

Kupek wrote:And you know this... how?

Referencing within the articles, I would imagine.

What he may be referring to is the fact that Gamespot tends to have more referencing to Famitsu and IGN articles than the other way, but still, 90% of their stories are the same and covered simultaneously by the two sites (shockingly, they all attend the same press gatherings and trade shows :-). So, it's only minor stories that you tend to see one get over the other or a scoop they've paid for. IGN is good for just basic news (think of it as the Toronto Sun or New York Post) but Gamespot and Next-Gen have much better depth articles (say, Globe and Mail or Washington Post) and cover more industry-related issues rather than just game-related news and articles, which is IGN's specialty.

Sure, they may not break the news immediately, but I find their stuff to be more interesting.

I was talking about the friends bit.

Ever watch the video interviews? IGN is the only website which has them where the developers and business people do not always speak to them as if they are just reporters.