Re: IGN Review Is Up!!
Alright, so I've only gotten the average amount of playtime into this on my roommate's 360 today, but the fact is... even if the game is better than 2K8 that doesn't mean that it deserves a better score. 2K8 came out last year, there wasn't the high bar at which to judge baseball games (well, sort of), as The Show hadn't come out yet and all you could compare it to was MVP '05, as far as excellent baseball games go.
This series has skated by on hype... like how 2K7 got good reviews, because the game was so over-hyped and reviewers felt bad, or something, about giving it subpar reviews... and 2K8 was supposedly an improvement on 2K7, so it got decent reviews. But if the game is rough, which it is, then it deserves a low score ... even if that score is lower than 2K8, which we agree, 2K9 is better than 2K8.
I'm glad that it's getting lower than expected reviews because 2K8 deserved 5's and it got 7.5s+. Every reviewer bought the lines that the game was improved from 2K7, which it wasn't, and took the developers at their word. 2K8 deserved a much lower score than it got, 2K9 is a better game than 2K8, but reviewers shouldn't have to give it a higher score because they misreviewed 2K8.
Plus, I think that a lot of reviewers have become fed up with the prduct being subpar for four consecutive years that, like me, they've become a little dissolussioned with the promises that the game is much improved and that -- again -- "this is a three year plan," which, supposedly, so was 2K6, 2K7, and 2K8.
Alright, so I've only gotten the average amount of playtime into this on my roommate's 360 today, but the fact is... even if the game is better than 2K8 that doesn't mean that it deserves a better score. 2K8 came out last year, there wasn't the high bar at which to judge baseball games (well, sort of), as The Show hadn't come out yet and all you could compare it to was MVP '05, as far as excellent baseball games go.
This series has skated by on hype... like how 2K7 got good reviews, because the game was so over-hyped and reviewers felt bad, or something, about giving it subpar reviews... and 2K8 was supposedly an improvement on 2K7, so it got decent reviews. But if the game is rough, which it is, then it deserves a low score ... even if that score is lower than 2K8, which we agree, 2K9 is better than 2K8.
I'm glad that it's getting lower than expected reviews because 2K8 deserved 5's and it got 7.5s+. Every reviewer bought the lines that the game was improved from 2K7, which it wasn't, and took the developers at their word. 2K8 deserved a much lower score than it got, 2K9 is a better game than 2K8, but reviewers shouldn't have to give it a higher score because they misreviewed 2K8.
Plus, I think that a lot of reviewers have become fed up with the prduct being subpar for four consecutive years that, like me, they've become a little dissolussioned with the promises that the game is much improved and that -- again -- "this is a three year plan," which, supposedly, so was 2K6, 2K7, and 2K8.
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