I don't understand why people constantly try to compare scores across different magazines/sites. The only thing that a reviewer or game site has to be consistent with is itself. It has no responsibility to match or be equivalent with another site.

I know you're not here to argue game costs, but SNES games were sometimes definitely more expensive than that. With certainty, I remember Chrono Trigger costing $69.99. I bought Breath of Fire 2 for $74.99. I live in the Silicon Valley in California so I'm not in some weird region or anything. Unlike today, there was…

I say, software pirating would reduce by at least HALF if retail copies would just include keygen music.

I don't get it... what is the PC SUPPOSED to be able to do? It's the developer who designs the game. If the developer chose to harness the full power of the PC to add incredible new things, they could... but that's up to them. What does that have to do with what the PC can do to a game?

Yes it is a great introductory RPG. It's a relatively simple, straightforward game (unlike the sprawling epics out there that, truth be told, can be overwhelming). However, it's not so simple that it becomes routine or boring. Most importantly, though, it's just a really good, fun, charming game.

Reviewers should NEVER base a game on used sales. When you buy used you are NOT a consumer of the publisher or developer in any way. They have no responsibility to you whatsoever for transactions you choose to engage in on the side. A review should not punish a publisher/developer because of an experience they have…

If review sites are docking points for a game having a small target audience, then you REALLY need to start reading different review sites. That's just bad reviewing, and that's definitely not universal practice among reviewers.

Giving you only 30 minutes to eat is something that the restaurant is directly doing to hinder your experience as a consumer of their business. So yes it is fair to dock points for that.

"Contents of the DVD" is evaluating the product you get when you purchase it new, so if something is NOT there (or something really sucks) then that is fair to dock points for.

The "they" in this is some guy named Ryan Hemsworth, not the rappers or producers or anyone like that (check actual Youtube page). He simply remixed the acapella vocals from a rap track with a Secret of Mana song. Nothing more than that. (The article description is incredibly misleading — at no point did the…

Wait a minute, this song isn't actually about Secret of Mana right? Isn't it just rap vocals remixed (by a lad named Ryan Hemsworth) with a Secret of Mana music as a backing track?

They're not rapping over the original soundtrack, but this is my video game rap of choice. This actually is a pretty nice track, video-game-related or not.

I thought this was a good game. You just had to accept that it was UNBELIEVABLY HARD. But I thought the gameplay itself was pretty fun. Maybe at that age (I was 10 or 11 at the time) I just didn't have my "gamer" instincts built into me yet where I felt like I HAD to get passed certain stages... I just enjoyed playing…

Ok, now I really want to know the final stats on this survey question. How much Valve revenue is generated due to Gabe Newell himself?

OK, gotcha. I respect that you personally don't find value in it and that's perfectly fine.

I'd bet a majority of artists out there partake in art or craft projects (in whatever medium) without developing any skills you'd truly call "useful". I know plenty of people (including myself) who draw, paint, craft, and write music as a hobby without even really caring to show anyone their works and certainly…

I know this answer will not satisfy neither you nor me, but the answer to "why do we need a number at all?" is this: Because people want them. At the end of the day, people don't have time to read reviews or people don't want to read through the full text of the review or people have trouble understanding the use of…

"10/10" does not mean the game is perfect. It means that the game is fully recommended by the reviewer. No site or magazine is out there trying to objectively measure a game (impossible), but rather just stating how much they recommend people to play the game.

I don't understand why people are so hung up over what numbers mean. The number is not supposed to represent objectively how good a game is. It's just a number that roughly gauges how much the reviewer enjoyed the game. A "10" doesn't mean it's objectively perfect, it means the reviewer simply enjoyed the game as…

From the first five words of your post ("I'm not an RPG fan") I initially thought this: I honestly think you'll like it more BECAUSE you're not an RPG fan. The things that "RPG fans" like are not what FF13 provides, and the thing that FF13 provides is not what "RPG fans" typically like.