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What goes into awarding a game a 7/10 review score? And what happens when you get it wrong? This week, we discuss 10 or so games where the review scores we decided on many years ago didn’t stand the test of time. From Epic Mickey to Metal Gear Solid 4, it’s a spicy podcast. This week’s music is from the MGS4 soundtrack by Nobuka Toda. Our logo is by John Strike.

Timestamps

  • 0:03:20 - Matthew’s first game review, Red Steel
  • 0:14:04 - Hotel Dusk novel review / Samuel’s diary of Niko Bellic
  • 0:22:46 - Samuel’s first big review, The Darkness PS3 (Play) Scored 91%, thinks it should be 15% lower
  • 0:26:21 - Matthew’s Zelda Skyward Sword review (Edge), scored 10
  • 0:32:43 - Samuel’s MGS4 review, 92% (Play)
  • 0:38:12 - Matthew’s Mario Kart Wii 88% (NGamer)
  • 0:43:56 - Samuel’s Far Cry 2 review, 7/10 (X360), thinks it should be higher
  • 0:47:08 - Matthew’s Ace Attorney Trials and Tribulations 81% / Ace Attorney Investigations Miles Edgeworth reviews 79% (One Matthew loves, one he hates, but there is only 2% difference)
  • 0:51:08 - Samuel’s Batman Arkham Asylum review (x360 mag) 7/10, then got convinced to make it 8/10.
  • 0:55:05 - Nier - Matthew 65% (Xbox 360 version) “quite easily the best not very good game we’ve played in a while”. Samuel 54% (PS3 version)
  • 1:00:07 - Matthew’s Bit Trip Runner review 1/5
  • 1:03:11 - Samuel’s Assassin Creed review 58% (Play) thinks score is too high.
  • 1:06:56 - Matthew’s Resident Evil Revelations review 90% “a bit of a 3DS drought made me too thirsty”
  • 1:10:11 - Samuel’s Lego Batman review 2/5 (360 mag)
  • 1:11:58 - Matthew’s Epic Mickey review 86%

Lowest scored games

  • Matthew - 1:18:07 - Doki Doki Majo Shinpan! Score: No
  • Samuel - 1:19:14 - Lord of the Rings Conquest. Score: 1/5 (360)