The Gamer's Quarter

david · . Joined: 03 Mar 2005 Posts: 170 Location: b, md

From tonight's Super Paper Mario "HANDS ON":

dessgeega · Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 9:18 pm Post subject:

remember, they're gamers first and journalists second.
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david · . Joined: 03 Mar 2005 Posts: 170 Location: b, md

Seriously though, I go in expecting run-of-the-mill, blogger-type writing, and somehow I'm still let down. I stop and read something over three times, for some reason fascinated, trying to figure out what is so wrong with it. Sometimes it is blatantly bad, confusing writing, but other times he just picks the synonym with the wrong connotation. Either he doesn't care or he's really just completely oblivious to... language.
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Mister Toups · Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 3:27 am Post subject:

That doesn't even make sense.

I'm generally forgiving of poor style or grammar so long as meaning is preserved. Not so here, though!
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dmauro · . Joined: 20 Jul 2006 Posts: 303 Location: Brooklyn

It's like when you hear a little child say something that is grammatically correct and can be recognized as a sentence, but the content makes no sense because the child isn't trying to express an idea, but rather is rather just trying to mimic adults and the way they use language. That's IGN.

SuperWes · Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 8:56 am Post subject:

See, I'm pretty sure I know what he's saying, it's just that his opinion is fucking stupid. When you switch from 2D to 3D it doesn't look quite as good. Who cares?! And his second point is that the game is too easy because he's half way through it in 10 hours. But since when was an estimated 20 hours too short for a platformer?

-Wes
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SuperWes · Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 11:26 am Post subject:

Ethoscapade · . Joined: 30 Oct 2005 Posts: 276

i'm just really worried that, what with the lack of a run button in a mario game, they will forget about momentum entirely.

i mean, it's supposed to be a platformer first and foremost, right?

david · . Joined: 03 Mar 2005 Posts: 170 Location: b, md

How about the placement of "(presumably)" in the sentence? I think it's supposed to modify the guess about the game's length (which is redundant, because he also says "could be"), but instead it modifies "whip through."

Like, "presumably we're whipping through this game." Presumably... as opposed to what, taking your time? Reading Maxim? Whipping something else?
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SuperWes · Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 11:46 am Post subject:

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Nana Komatsu · weak sauce Joined: 17 Jul 2006 Posts: 1293

What I find sad is that I'm betting a bunch of IGNite readers will never play this game because their lord and prophet Matt said it didn't look great and was too short.
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SuperWes · Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 2:52 pm Post subject:

ryan · . Joined: 20 Feb 2005 Posts: 999

Nothing beats the time when IGN described a first-person shooter as third-person and spent paragraphs complaining about the camera and controls. When called on it, they put up, then removed, 'it's so boring it felt like a third-person game.'
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dessgeega · Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 5:29 pm Post subject:

i've played this game a little. it seems like a more focused crush.

in before journalistic integrity.
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ryan · . Joined: 20 Feb 2005 Posts: 999

Ah, Ivan. My friend can't stand that man, and with good reason. Even his 'normal' articles were on par with that.
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Nana Komatsu · weak sauce Joined: 17 Jul 2006 Posts: 1293

david · . Joined: 03 Mar 2005 Posts: 170 Location: b, md

Also, again,

Scratchmonkey · . Joined: 02 Mar 2005 Posts: 1439

I like how it implies that the verdict itself said it was going to go around the corner for cigarettes and you know, it should have been back already, it'll get back eventually, really honey.

Nana Komatsu · weak sauce Joined: 17 Jul 2006 Posts: 1293

Don't worry, it happens to lots of verdicts.
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david · . Joined: 03 Mar 2005 Posts: 170 Location: b, md

Also, notable as a noun refers to an important person, not anything you consider worthy of note.
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SuperWes · Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 8:04 am Post subject:

dhex · Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 8:18 am Post subject:

that verdict is notably absent!
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Nana Komatsu · weak sauce Joined: 17 Jul 2006 Posts: 1293

Sadly "the verdict on the latter notable is still out" sounds just about right for a Phoenix Wright localization.
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Wall of Beef · Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 11:39 am Post subject:

Mister Toups · Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 11:34 pm Post subject:

oligophagy · . Joined: 26 Nov 2006 Posts: 28

Weird that he's using the first person plural to talk about playing a game. Is IGN really tag teaming it? Maybe that's why it is so easy. Presumably. Could be. In our experience, might be.

(The verdict is still out).