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Subject: ARGH! STUPID MAGAZINES!
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Okay, I just want to rant and b*tch for a moment. I go through many other fourms during the day(about 5), and I see a lot of different things.(Dont worry, no spoilers here) Well, there are some guys posting that EGM and Game Informer and other magazines that, until now, I once held in high regard have given the same score to GTA:SA and Halo 2.
This really pisses me off. Now I'll admit that Im somewhat biased and want Halo 2 to be better, but that's not why Im angry. Im really mad right now because those two ARE NOT the same game and there is NO WAY they should receive the same score. If GTA:SA was ranked better, then fine. I would be annoyed but I could handle it.
You know what this is? This is magazines trying to cater to the fanboys and avoid pissing people off. They simply dont want to destroy their customer base, instead of giving fair and accurate ratings. Playing favorites to both sides. *sigh* It's a shame...a travesty.

  • 11.05.2004 7:50 AM PDT
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Yes it is and that is the way it will stay for a long long time.

  • 11.05.2004 12:37 PM PDT
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Perhaps they actually thought that they deserved the same score... that they are coincidentally equal.

I will always love Halo more, but GTASA is a damn fine game.

P.S. when haven't these magazines played it safe? EGM has never been a good mag...not since SushiX left!

  • 11.05.2004 1:03 PM PDT
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um... first off, GTA: SA is MUCH different then Halo2... meaning that they think, "Wow! This is the best FPS I've seen!" (thus giving Halo2 a 10) San Andreas, being a much different game, was ranked a 10 because of how good it was in its genre. I don't understand how you're pissed, or how you misunderstood what the magazines meant. Halo2 and San Andreas getting a 10 DOES NOT mean they are comparing them with eachother; It means they thought it was the best of their genre classes...

  • 11.05.2004 2:11 PM PDT
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Dude if you concentrate hard enough when playing games like GTA


you can feel your IQ drop.

  • 11.05.2004 7:46 PM PDT
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wait, since when did two games having the same score mean they are the same game? (never...) and i dont get you... if GTA had a higher score, fine, but their equal so your pissed? you know, drugs and alcohol have a bad effect on the brain... and there is all kinds of therapy available...

  • 11.05.2004 7:51 PM PDT

Devil is Double is Deuce and Joker always trumps Deuce.

I am happy to say that I have never played any GTA game. Crime is bad. Why make a game centered around it?

  • 11.05.2004 7:52 PM PDT
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Posted by: MCs Brother
I am happy to say that I have never played any GTA game. Crime is bad. Why make a game centered around it?


I wouldn't condemn something if I haven't played it, but yes crime is bad, GTA, isn't.

If games are just an advanced form of story telling, how is it a bad thing to tell a story about a life of crime?

  • 11.05.2004 7:57 PM PDT