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Post by Zerolus on Dec 30, 2004 20:46:44 GMT
Some of the scores they give in mags I don't agree with. They gave Star Fox Adventures around an 80%. That is overrated. SFA deserves something more like a 70%
They also underrate SA: DX and SA2B, SA and SA2 do not deserve a 70% and a 60%.
Most Nintendo games are given a 90+ by NOM, but not all. Look at Luigi's Mansion or Mario Party 4. They were Nintendo games yet they didn't get a 90%.
And other they do give Non-Nintendo games 90+ scores as well. Prince of Persia, Tony Hawk's Underground, Viewtiful Joe... etc.
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Post by Alex on Dec 30, 2004 21:47:22 GMT
Most Nintendo games deserve it though... No-one would accept a Zelda game getting given any less...
They do know when a game is crap from Ninty - Pokemon Channel and Kirby's Air Ride as examples but overall their style kinda gets on my nerves.
NGC is my favourite of the two, mostly for the writing and their reviews are DEFINITELY a lot better.
NOM seem more like they're restricted in what they can say, their reviews mollycoddle far too much.
It's an alright read, but NGC is better.
As far as Sonic goes, you can expect the bias. It'd be weird if they DIDN'T have such a bias. I think Sonic Heroes got a fair score in both mags though, it's certainly not the best Sonic game ever... SA2B and SADX however WERE unfairly scored by both. They blamed them for not having enough new features and being nothing more than ports. Yet they were great games nonetheless.
They didn't follow the same reasoning with Mario Advance through 4... Which were much, much worse ports if you ask me.
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Post by Graxer on Jan 11, 2005 21:42:57 GMT
NOM ROCKS! ;D
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Post by madhair60 on Jan 12, 2005 9:27:27 GMT
All the Sonic games to date (Heroes aside) have, IMO, been fairly scored. Sonic Adventure DX and 2 Battle ARE lazy releases, and weren't that great to begin with :/. Heroes was horrifically overrated.
I like NOM, but they do write a lot of arse. Their reviews always seem to open with a "What if you were..." scenario that goes on for far too long. Also, they think they're "hardcore" by running features on Retro and name-dropping obscure titles from the Big N's past. It makes them sound pretentious.
Lastly, too much of their pages are devoted to boring nonsense nobody wants to read (See the entire letters page, Seal Club etc) and the amount of padding is horriffic at times (See PoP: Warrior Within review boxouts, most of the news pages).
I still enjoy the magazine despite its shortcomings, because the tips are good and the news, though convoluted IS useful. I also enjoy the section previewing Japan and the random Ninty merchandise available there.
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Post by ashurathecomic on Jan 15, 2005 13:47:24 GMT
I like NOM a lot. The people who write it know nothing about Metroid, however. SR388 IS NOT ZEBES! GRAHGAHGHAFHUSAFHUAOISFHOASDHASOIDOACI --Ray EDIT: Lastly, too much of their pages are devoted to boring nonsense nobody wants to read (See the entire letters page, Seal Club etc) Letters page rocks. ;D
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Post by Zerolus on Jan 15, 2005 14:01:35 GMT
I like NOM a lot. The people who write it know nothing about Metroid, however. SR388 IS NOT ZEBES! GRAHGAHGHAFHUSAFHUAOISFHOASDHASOIDOACI --Ray Tell me about it. I'm quite disgusted that they think SR-388 is Zebes. Umm... Zebes blew up in Super Metroid. SR-388 was in Metroid Fusion. Though that's the only inaccurate thing they've done about Metroid. Everything else they've written about Metroid is pretty much correct.
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Post by ashurathecomic on Jan 15, 2005 14:53:44 GMT
Yeah, true.
It also says in the intro to SuperMetroid that SR388 isn't Zebes... -_- Not directly, but its implied by the grammar.
--Ray
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Post by Mango on Jan 15, 2005 15:45:49 GMT
I used to like Seal back in the older magazines, and I love reading letters. but the magazine has just become pervy now =/
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Post by Baxter on Jan 15, 2005 15:54:12 GMT
I haven't bought the rag for about four months now. Has the infamous "Seal" returned or something?
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Post by Mango on Jan 15, 2005 22:04:47 GMT
Yes, Seal returned. But as I already mentioned they're also filling the mag with as much near-swearing and innuendo as possible.
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Post by Zerolus on Jan 15, 2005 23:27:27 GMT
Seal, I find, is rarely funny. That song in the Christmas Issue was just lame. And some of the other things are just plain werid. What was fairly amusing is was a little paragraph on the Nintendo Revolution: "This isn't a console you fools. Nintendo is planning to take over the world in 2005". But it was quickly ruined by saying that a giant Pikachu will shoot electricity out of its ass. I like reading the letters though. But once an occasion you get the feeling that NOM have made a letter up. Such as in "Ask the Deku Tree" there was when 'letter' asking; "I eat paper and when I spit it out it sticks to a wall and dries. Does that make you fear me?" "No, it makes you a fool." I mean, come on, no-one can be that daft.
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Post by Alex on Jan 15, 2005 23:40:51 GMT
Actually, that sounds exactly like a letter some idiot would send in. Considering it's the same sort of tripe you'd often find from some spammers on the internet.
I still find NGC to have better quality writing and stuff but lets face it, NOM's the one for the freebies.
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Post by supershadow on Jan 16, 2005 21:46:16 GMT
I've been a runner-up in two issues of NOM and won Zelda MC the second time but it didn't come.
And that was two months ago I mean come on.
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Post by Baxter on Jan 16, 2005 21:54:16 GMT
Seal, I find, is rarely funny. That song in the Christmas Issue was just lame. And some of the other things are just plain werid. What was fairly amusing is was a little paragraph on the Nintendo Revolution: "This isn't a console you fools. Nintendo is planning to take over the world in 2005". But it was quickly ruined by saying that a giant Pikachu will shoot electricity out of its ass. That's another thing that annoys me about NOM - the ridiculous over-usage of the word "ass". Yet another example of them come trying desperately to come across as "cool" to the casual teenage readership. An example of this was in the Mega Man: Network Transmission review sometime in 2003, when they encouraged something along the lines of "beating up computer geeks".
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