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7.9

i hold no grudge over the ign 3/10 god hand, the reviewer had a busy week and just got filtered. but the imagine party babyz comparison is really funny so i will bring it up from time to time

IGN is incompetent, you should be competent enough to not let their incompetence affect you to the point their existence is a net negative to your own.

this image but replace every mention of movies with games (repost cause i messed up the alt text)

That’s core to the idea that “game journalists are biased/corrupt” which is core to their entire personality, they can’t let it go because there’s nothing else to these guys

No I will continue to bitch about IGN's review of God Hand like an old man yelling at the clouds!!!!

Have you read Tom Chick's review of Deus Ex? If yes, then how can you sleep at night?

jeff gerstmann will pay for twilight princess

Bringing up "wrong" reviews like the time you realized your dad was just a dude and it shook you to your core.

Elite even had a higher score. Like, what are you doing PCW?!?

I totally admit I misunderstood parts of your original post! My bad entirely, I pretty much argued the point of a totally different conversation (And probably clogged your notifications, sorry)

Sure, but "You are wrong" or "this is a real dud" is not a critique. How do you intend to criticize someone who does not like a game as much as you do? Even if you prove them to be wrong on one point or another, did they actually enjoy something that they say they didn't?

Ewww?

IGN sucks anyway so that just makes it double embarrassing for them IMO

The only one I remember is pokemon sapphire getting a lower rating because to much water . And that isn’t a gripe just a funny thing to remember.

gr8 b8 m8 i r8 it 8.8

Kingdom Hearts 2, Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire and Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky spring to mind. Yes the takes were bad. Please let it go.

If you're arguing with a video game review from over ten years ago like bro none of them are even in the industry anymore lol

It is your fault for rating it too high and/or low.

* Specifically the GodHand review vs Imagine Party Babyz or whatever. Both cause funny and cause it shows how silly a scoring system can be.

one of mgr’s biggest weak points is just how bad it is at explaining the parry yeah. but also the game was well recieved largely, and now it’s one of the most popular and long lasting games from its year like you fully won lol. no need to hold on to that review

It was a hurdle for me lmao. I just think they should had allow you to parry without having to move. Literally avoiding over complicating something you can achieve with one button.

You don't really love Sonic Unleashed if you can't acknowledge where it fucked up.

theres a game journalist whos usually pretty on point but they said aerith was "child coded" and that people who found her attractive were "sus" like 4 years ago so i still have them blocked

Gamers when a person doesn't like a game they liked A lot of people forget that the reviews are really just like one person's opinion on a game

Pokemon fans when their remake gets what is realistically a very generous score but one of the bullet points sounds a bit funny out of context

sonic fans having the "sonic was never good" supercut always on the ready is deeply funny behavior tho

I’m sorry you liked Alien Isolation and it didn’t get the review you thought. Why are you still bitching about this 12 years, an Alien resurgence, and an upcoming sequel later

Maybe Imagine Babies was actually the better game

Wasn’t their most recent review a game they gave a 10 that everybody hated?

"how could they give Party Babiez a higher score than God Hand" I dunno maybe Capcom could have done a better job finagling the Resident Evil 4 engine into a hardcore beatemup because that control scheme and camera are straight ass and the game is full of annoying bullshit and has no real tutorial

to a lot of people IGN is an abstracted name for a person who will react to being told of a game review they wrote with recognition and engagement, rather than some people with a job listening to you complain about a slight you perceived two decades ago by someone who worked at the same company.

one of my oldest friends is still mad about @jeffgerstmann.com's review of super smash bros melee. he mentions it like once a year and we all make fun of it for it

Does the God Hand review count

Still have an axe to grind with Next Generation after all these years. You tried to kill 2D gaming, but WHO'S DEAD NOW?! Ha ha ha ha HAAA HAAA HAAA! ... I might have problems.

I can't remember a single review score or quote with the exception of the "too much water" that I didn't even read from the original review.

But when it comes to what he enjoys vs what I like there’s almost zero crossover there but that’s what I like! I like to hear what someone approaching things in a different way to me thinks. For some reason our culture has decided you absolutely cannot tolerate this divergence in artistic analysis

People to this day can't let go of the IGN alien isolation review, and low-key the reviewer was right

I still curse that GameInformer Sword of Mana review for the GBA for praising the co-op mode that game didn't actually have. My friend was very upset with me for convincing him to buy it so we could play together. I will never forgive them.

goomba fallacy for ign. everyone thinks ign is just one guy "why did 10/10 game get a 5/10 but some shovelware got 7/10" youre right. john ign reviews every single game ever disguised as game journalists.

the editor and reviewer almost assuredly have not been there for over a decade often they don't even work in games anymore

Cant imagine caring about an ign review in 2026

Kane & Lynch Gamespot NEVER FORGET

This is known among doctors as "GTA Syndrome."

I think about buying their "3" shirt all the time, re: God Hand

it's okay I update my resentment is reinforced with the decades of other generally bad reviews on there, thankful the era where they were one of the main tastemakers for the industry has closed

Or the Game Grumps playthrough from five to ten years ago. Just because Arin is a dummy who is bad at video games doesn’t mean you should give him real estate in your brain.

Giving God Hand a 3/10 legit ruined that game and prevented it from getting ports and acknowledgement though

Prior to 2014, it was a common fan consensus that Ruby and Sapphire had excessive repetititve water gameplay, people pointed to the three water navigation HMs.

"too much water" review critics when i drown them

I’m the other way, I’m going to bat for 30 year old IGN reviews. Because they were right, Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire DID have too much water

Everyone who does the "game journalist bad at games" meme

Sonic Unleashed is one of the strangest mid games ever because half of it is a 10 and half of it is a 4 and it's glaringly obvious which half is which

I need all of you to go read their review of a terrible show called Work It.

but what will i live for if i stop hating the ign guy who gave pmd bad reviews

they will never get over that 20(!) year old god hand review.

I WILL NEVER FORGIVE THEM FOR FOVING ZELDA TWILIGHT PRINCESS AN 8.8 I WILL TAKE THAT ANGER TO MY GRAVE!!!

That God Hand review might be partialy responsible for killing Clover that one stands regardless.

Almost half of the comments on my Alien Isolation 2 preview are about IGN's score of the first game

My specific gripe with their review of Sonic Unleashed is that the video footage of that review clearly showed that they were shit at the game and doing SO MUCH WRONG, and they used their crappy gameplay to JUSTIFY their whole "hurr durr Sonic was never good" spiel.

No because what do you mean they didn't even finish the game

I don't understand people who get mad at reviews. Another person didn't enjoy the thing I did? Okay. It's even worse when the angry person hasn't even played the game yet.

Dramatic reveal that guy still complaining about that review actually three wingulls in a trench coat.

Fucking THANK YOU

THIS THE GUY WAS COMPLETELY RIGHT THE GAME IS FULL OF STUPID HM CHECKS THAT FORCE YOU TO HAVE A UTILITY SWIMMING POKEMON, AND THE WATER IS JUST BLAND NOTHINGNESS WHERE YOU ENCOUNTER LIKE 3 DIFFERENT TYPES OF NORMAL FISH PER AREA, AND THE ANIMATIONS FOR USING THE HMS ARE REPETITIVE TOO

I think the biggest issue is that they didnt add any diversity in the pokemon trainers use. They should have replaced like 75% of swimners with different trainers like on boats, surfing, etc.

the really frustrating thing about this is wasn't that actually a pretty common complaint back when the original games were new? but now it has a remake that we gotta glaze so if someone makes that exact same complaint we gotta make fun of the wording for some reason

But it was right in the middle of the anti-critic backlash and gamers can't read, so it became a meme.

love Hoenn, 100% true

normally I'd agree but I have atleast one exception cos its funny

"can't spell ignorant without IGN!" I'm 40 and I was hearing that joke in high school, can we please

that graphic comparing ign review scores for god hand and imagine babies somehow still defines 90% of gamers feelings towards any reviews

I remember one time the manager who made the key bullet points for the ORAS review basically said that "too much water" was one of his biggest career regrets simply due to the sheer amount of shit the actual writer of the review of the game had to deal with because of it.

Can't believe they said the bad videogame is bad. 😡

i love when people discuss ccu for single player games. like who cares?

Im guessing by context this isnt the kind of case youre referring to, but it is fun to look at how attitudes around specific media can change over time.

nirvana's nevermind got a 3/5 review by rolling stone back in 1991. by 2011 it was in their top 20 best albums of all times. it's not hypocrisy but the ability to look at something as its own thing and not tied to various social and cultural factors

Not only that. Something I learn is trying to look at the person who wrote it and see what other games they talked about. And sometimes. A person can just not like a game. Everyone is going to see things differently. I try to not hold a organization on a review anymore

If you're only 29, decades seems like a bit of an exaggeration, but... more to the point. I didn't people did this. I guess I'm grateful I never stumbled over this part of the online discourse, but I'm surprised I haven't.

For a lot of newer games it’s hard to find anything that isn’t only user reviews (even for some major publisher releases). Having an issue with a review is anachronistic at this point.

I'm taking a break from a homework assignment where I have to find contemporary reviews of books from 1969 and 1970. Of course this is the skeet I stumble onto lol

God Hand tho

Every time I see people make fun of the "7.8 Too much water" thing I die a little inside.

That's... It's a DEMON world.

How do you feel about the band?

Except the cuphead guy

people being mad at that has baffled me basically since it happened. Gamers have still not figured out that video game reviews are opinions written by multiple different people, not a divine truth from the god of game reviews.

(Also twilight princess is more like a 5.8 instead of an 8.8 but that's just me)

I'm still mad at Rolling Stone for giving a bad review of Cake's "Pressure Chief" and I will never let go

That was funny though! They uploaded it because they KNEW it was funny! And people got mad at them anyways!

it wasn’t even a review!

At THIS point? Nazi. Straight up.

they are STILL wringing out that Cuphead video

Oh that’s just Sonic fans in general lmao They complain about Amy actually having depth now, they complain about the shape of Sonic’s quills, etc. I’d say they’re really prone to being ragebaited but it’s been happening for over two decades now.

Nope. I am not gonna stop with my daily morning ritual of reading IGNs review of God Hand and getting angry about it. Never.

IGN wanted an audience of horrible gamers and they got it