IGN and their crusade against Hack and Slash.

He was Temp banned before, but he came back and apparently hasn't learned a damned thing.

Back on Topic, I like Hack And Slash games a lot, and IGN lambasting them is pretty strange. They seem to have it out for Beat-em ups in general. Remember their infamous God Hand review?

edited 22nd Oct '10 12:40:39 PM by Demongodofchaos2

It's Hard, So It Sucks! is what it amounted to. Said review also caused Clover Studios to disband.

It does piss me off how people always blame the game for the fact that they suck.

"It's not my fault that I suck, it's the games fault for not holding onto my hand all the way through!"

edited 22nd Oct '10 5:28:25 PM by Signed

To be fair, in some cases that complaint might be justified.

God Hand doesn't fall into that though, it establishes your playthrough of the game will be painful.

edited 22nd Oct '10 5:48:15 PM by Marioguy128

Unless the game was made hard due to some crazy "HOW COULD YOU HAVE LEFT THAT IN?!" bug, I can't see how often it would be justified.

The few I can list off would be...Duriel's ability to kill you BEFORE you can finish loading(not a problem for warriors, but for mages), and ummm...that's about all I can think up atm...

There are all those really old games with really shitty controls, but that's not the game being hard, but the designer screwing up.

edited 22nd Oct '10 6:01:02 PM by Signed

Sometimes bad level design can fall into this, although it isn't exactly It's Hard, So It Sucks!, but nobody'll blame you if you complain.

edited 22nd Oct '10 6:12:52 PM by Marioguy128

many Nintendo fans seems to herald the opinion that gameplay matters over gameplay

Truer words have never been spoken;)

Anyway, hack and slashes...I never actually got what that meant. I mean, Diablo is sometimes named hack and slash or an action-RPG. However, Kingdom Hearts is also named an action-RPG. So is Phantasy Star Portable. Does hack and slash mean "killing higher and higher levelled enemies in order to obtain stronger and stronger gear" (Diablo, PSP), or does it mean "slashing through the opposition as a main way of playing {Nanobreak, DMC)?

The Latter, usually. DMC actually Helped make it popular today.

"Well, don't forget, Game Informer is owned by Game Stop. Their first priority is to sell games. (Although you'd think that'd include eastern RPGs.)"

Their first priority is used games. Anyone check to see if their scores tend to correspond to what's most likely to get resold to them?

edited 25th Oct '10 9:03:02 AM by DragonQuestZ