Re: The Witcher IGN review: 8.5

Thus spake Jonah Falcon <jonahnynla@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Sun, 11 Nov 2007
15:00:48 -0000, Anno Domini:

On Nov 11, 4:51 am, Nostromo <nos...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Thus spake "Vincenzo Beretta" <reck...@xxxxxxxxxxx>, Sun, 11 Nov 2007
07:59:27 +0100, Anno Domini:

Some pretty honest comments on site .. Oblivion
clone with lots of side quests ... out of date combat
style considering the recent FPS - RPG hybrids that
are much more interactive ... unimpressive facial
expressions ... amaturish development team.

Whoa, they really missed *so many* buses?

They have to save their gushing for another american release clone crpg lol!

In any case, nowhere does the review say "Oblivious clone" or even mention
Ob directly, no matter what the one-game-wonder's interpretation above is.
In fact, the closing comments talk about a game that would be in the top
5%-ile if not for the CTDs & other bugs, probably a classic.

Fuck, a thread started by Jonah & 'contributed' to by johns - what was I
thinking? *boggle* :-/. Now I'm thinking I'm done.

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Nostromo

Can we say a game is good or bad on its own merits and not where the
dev team is from?

I mention it because IGN seems to have a bias against non-US titles, so sue
me. Johns' summary 'interpretation' of an otherwise glowing review is flawed
beyond words. And, I suspect the review was done on Vi$ta, which accounts
for the bugs & crashes, QED. Shit, I thought I'd said I was done - that'll
teach me to forget to mark a thread ignored - there, that's better! :)

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Nostromo
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