The Two Biggest Lies They Ever Told Us
1) That the bullying would stop when you left school. 2) That the bullying would stop when the Dreamcast died. Still, at this time when the Sonic review scores are stinking the fridge out and Phantasy Star Universe is taking a fairly steady hammering in the press despite almost unanimous user reviews of 8/10 and above, let's take time out to pay tribute to one man. A man of integrity. A voice of sense in amongst all the quibbling and backbiting. I refer to Ben Turner of Gamespy.
"I got tired of level grinding in Final Fantasy, and I'll get tired of it in this," says Ben of PSU. "Maybe it'll be worth coming back to when there's more content. Two out of five." Herr Turner, we veterans and conisseurs of inane, spiteful whining salute you. Marking a Sega game down based on what it might be like in the future is old hat, but you sir have raised the bar for all of us by tearing one to pieces based on how you DON'T feel about it yet. We can only lower our eyes in awe.
Ben concludes the review by admitting that he and his friends don't even bother with the gameplay - "We just party it up to voice chat, and that says it all really, doesn't it?" Well said. We submit that a grown man using the phrase "Party it up to voice chat" ENTIRELY WITHOUT IRONY to describe XB Live does indeed tell you everything you need to know about them.
1 comment:
I'd just like to point out that Ben's review is actually full of irresponsible factual innacuracies that lay bare the fact that he has in fact failed to scratch a bare percentile of the game system, instead merely hammering away at the fire button before thinking "This isn't PSO" and dismissing it. Disgracefully misquoting him to make him appear an idiot was simply more fun.
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