Why Gameinformer absolutely disgusts me:

I've always thought this was a crap magazine, but I was at a friends house today and he had the latest issue so I flipped through it. Absolute trash. But the thing that really made me ill was their review of Animal Crossing City Folk. They gave it a respectable 7.5, but in the last paragraph they compared AC to Grand Theft Auto- not kidding. This comparison of course makes absolutly no sense at all, but they said that ''compared to Grand Theft Auto IV...the communication in Animal Crossing isn't very impressive.'' Now let's think about this for a minute here. Grand Theft Auto is a game about killing people. It's about stealing cars and causing extreme havoc. Animal Crossing is a game about nothing. It's about fishing, making friends with cute little animals, customizing your house and clothing. If I had to think of a game that was the exact opposite of GTA, it would be Animal Crossing. I'm not insulting either game- they're both great fun- but I just thought that this really showed the level of ignorance of that magazine. Obviously both games involve communication, but I can't believe it would even cross somebody's mind that Animal Crossing should have the same level of communication as a GTA game. It's like comparing apples to...a series of devestating felonies. Does anybody else think this is crazy or is it just me?Why Gameinformer absolutely disgusts me:
How can communication be a complaint of theirs? It's got the best communication of any wii game due to wii speak just coming out.Why Gameinformer absolutely disgusts me:
ya i have it right here it says 'when you compare a shallow interactive game like animal crossing city folk to a game like gta iv or fable 2 theres no comparision that is bull , they are sony /ms fans , thats all ,just like almost every review site including meta critic they all suck , they all especally magazines hardly cover wii games look at gamespot, how they didnt even bother rating many wii games, or under rate them so what if the console isnt as powerful, we know that it isnt, we aint expecting it to and yet they give games like animal crossing a 7.5 but at the same time give gta iv mgs4 a 10 out of 10 ,
I don't read gaming magazines anymore and barely ever take review sites seriously, especially when they review Wii games.I trust the gamer consensus more accurately. Wii games cannot avoid being compared to HD console games unfortunately.
I was fooled into getting the magazine once by Gamestop. Never again though, it is trash.
I always disagreed with their Wii reviews.
They aren't comparing the gameplay they are comparing the two multilayer modes that both games have in common where u and a bunch of friends get together and interact with each other in a town/city. They are in their right to do so because in GTA u do have more player interaction. Animal crossing when ur playing with someone or by ur self feels very much the same. You cant really do anything game wise togeather. Playing animal crossing with friends isnt very different from playing by your self new knew modes added, no little mini games u can all play togeather. Dont get me wrong im fine with that. I love inviting friends over to fish and..show off but the games interactivity almost doesnt exsist.
Their Nintendo coverage is never good. Matter of fact, most gaming magazine's (outside of Nintendo specific magazines) coverage is lacking.
[QUOTE=''blankshore'']Grand Theft Auto is a game about killing people. It's about stealing cars and causing extreme havoc. [/QUOTE]That's exactly what Grand Theft Auto is NOT aboutIt's better to know about what they're comparing it to before you fly off the handle
[QUOTE=''webbut'']They aren't comparing the gameplay they are comparing the two multilayer modes that both games have in common where u and a bunch of friends get together and interact with each other in a town/city. They are in their right to do so because in GTA u do have more player interaction. Animal crossing when ur playing with someone or by ur self feels very much the same. You cant really do anything game wise togeather. Playing animal crossing with friends isnt very different from playing by your self new knew modes added, no little mini games u can all play togeather. Dont get me wrong im fine with that. I love inviting friends over to fish and..show off but the games interactivity almost doesnt exsist. [/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=''Jaysonguy''][QUOTE=''blankshore'']Grand Theft Auto is a game about killing people. It's about stealing cars and causing extreme havoc. [/QUOTE]That's exactly what Grand Theft Auto is NOT aboutIt's better to know about what they're comparing it to before you fly off the handle [/QUOTE]

^ Exactly what webbut and Jaysonguy said.



Just because they're from different genres doesn't mean no comparisons can be made. After all, both apples and oranges are fruit, and they've both got seeds and grow on trees.
IIRC, both paper mario games on the N64 and GC got 5.0's and 6.0's ........... i think this overshadows your complaint.
[QUOTE=''nintendo-4life'']IIRC, both paper mario games on the N64 and GC got 5.0's and 6.0's ........... i think this overshadows your complaint.[/QUOTE]really? dang. this over shadows everything else said here. there is no way they deserve that score.
[QUOTE=''nintendo-4life'']IIRC, both paper mario games on the N64 and GC got 5.0's and 6.0's ........... i think this overshadows your complaint.[/QUOTE]



Umm... Paper Mario on N64 got 75% and GC on got 67.5%. Quite an exaggeration, and you're still upset over reviews done years ago? On the other hand, they gave Super Paper Mario a 95%.
[QUOTE=''clicketyclick''][QUOTE=''nintendo-4life'']IIRC, both paper mario games on the N64 and GC got 5.0's and 6.0's ........... i think this overshadows your complaint.[/QUOTE]



Umm... Paper Mario on N64 got 75% and GC on got 67.5%. Quite an exaggeration, and you're still upset over reviews done years ago? On the other hand, they gave Super Paper Mario a 95%.[/QUOTE]

well that's when i stopped caring about them so that's the last thing i remember. and yes that was an exaggeration, but a 6.7 is still way too low, and i've read that the N64 version got a similar score from them.
Game Informer is just a lousy magazine all around. Be it their failed attempts at humor, poorly written articles or grammatical errors(which seemed to have been cleaned up more recently) it's shockingly mediocre. Plus I hate that they use a capitol letter for each word in their bios at the beginning of the magazine.
[QUOTE=''DaLegendKilla92'']I don't read gaming magazines anymore and barely ever take review sites seriously, especially when they review Wii games.



I trust the gamer consensus more accurately. Wii games cannot avoid being compared to HD console games unfortunately. [/QUOTE]

I agree that Wii Games will always be compared with HD Console games but AC with GTAIV? Still I agree with your gamer consensus comment, although I do think GS is a review site that has some credibility.
I don't know why you guys are always complaining. I love gameinformer!
[QUOTE=''Jaysonguy''][QUOTE=''blankshore'']Grand Theft Auto is a game about killing people. It's about stealing cars and causing extreme havoc. [/QUOTE]That's exactly what Grand Theft Auto is NOT aboutIt's better to know about what they're comparing it to before you fly off the handle [/QUOTE] no, thats pretty much what its about. you could argue that theres a story, but brawl having subspace emmissary does make it any less about getting together with friends to beat the each other to death. GTA has always had a fairly good story, but the core of the game play is this: your in a town, and you can do just about any thing you want to other people. shoot them, steal their cars, run other people over in their cars, whatever. an dont think im bashing GTA. the freedom to do what you want is the best part of the game.
[QUOTE=''the_wet_mop''][QUOTE=''Jaysonguy''][QUOTE=''blankshore'']Grand Theft Auto is a game about killing people. It's about stealing cars and causing extreme havoc. [/QUOTE]That's exactly what Grand Theft Auto is NOT aboutIt's better to know about what they're comparing it to before you fly off the handle [/QUOTE] no, thats pretty much what its about.[/QUOTE]And Mario is about curb-stomping rare species of turtle. There, now can we compare how player communication is handled?
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