It was the patch that was awesome and fixed everything, but they fired it along with Warren Spector.

The controls are perfect. Just because you do not understand them does not mean they are bad. They all lend to the game's atmosphere.

Yeah, I am not trying to say that it is a bad game. I like Tony Hawk and Burnout, but they are nothing like the genre-defining masterpiece that SH2 is.

No I don't. I am not that familiar with Gamerankings. Statistical weights can be useful and relevant, but not so much in criticism. For example, Nate Silver used weighting in his highly accurate predictions for the 2008 and 2012 elections. However, a critique is a very different type of thing than a basic poll, and I…

But Metacritic does review. They give a "weight" to each of the review scores that come in, thus, their final score is one of their own making, not just a rotten tomatoes aggregate. If you want to know more, just google "statistical weights."

Aggregate, yes, but their also have a complex system whereby they add different weights to reviews from different sources. No one really knows what the formula is, but I do imagine that this is behind some of the more ridiculous scores that they have.

I am comparing SH2 to the others. I do not doubt that Burnout and T.H. are good games, but to rank them so much lower than one of the finest games ever made is just silly. Also, FF XII is terrible, and should be ranked somewhere near "Barney the Purple Dinosaur goes to the Supermarket" for the SNES.

Oh yeah, Suikoden III and Beyond Good and Evil are stuck at 86. While Vitua Fighter 4 and SSX are at 93. . . I would laugh if it were not so tragic.

Silent Hill 2 Metacritic = 89. Final Fantasy XII Metacrtic = 92, Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3 = 97, Burnout 3 = 93. . .

I do not know man. I am not sold. I am glad you enjoyed it, but I see far too much of many of the things that I turned me off of the JRPG since the PS2 days. Main Characters that dress like bondage fantasies? Check. Overly complicated and oddly-colored special moves/magic? Check. Sexualized underage girls? Seems to be.

Yeah, that seems really unprofessional of him. I would say: "Look, the press is onto this, but we need to focus on developing this game, and not get distracted by people wanting info."

Clever. Though, I am old-school, so I just use the Ptolemy.

I am pretty sure Norway doesn't run east-west like that. This must be some kind of flattened globe.

Still looks quite difficult to mash frantically on the B button without your thumb slipping off the side. I suppose that is a very minor complaint, though. Otherwise, it does look nice.

At first I laughed at the game for being a rather blatant rip-off of SSB. But, now I honestly feel sorry for all the Sony All-Stars fans out there, as their series is mistreated like this. Wow, Sony pulls off a jerk move of such extraordinary quality that I actually feel a bit sorry for my own callousness.

Also, we should eat Irish babies. *horribly transparent reference to "A Modest Proposal" by Johnathan Swift.*

Nah, this game is far too realistic. I play games to escape.

I love it when people who have no idea what they are talking about try to rain on everyone who is actually talented. He uses no auto-tuning nor pitch-shifting. It is actual hard work. Auto-tuning carries specific signatures that are easy to detect is you know what you are looking for, and these videos have none.

You have no idea what an Iam is, do you?

They teach you that is school because teachers actually do not know what they are talking about when it comes to the language. English is more or less equal parts Germanic, French, Norse, Gaelic.