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[Molloy]

Music magazines get to rereview old albums as they get reissued so I'm all for some amendments. Particularly for Dark Souls. I haven't played much this gen but that's the one game that really blew me away.

Funnily enough I think Goldeneye was a 10 at the time but it's dated now so not much point in changing it. Halo 1 made it pretty obsolete.

SF4 isn't a particularly good fighting game either. It's just popular because of the branding or something. I think it's ugly as well, at least compared to KoF.

[merman]

Music magazines get to rereview old albums as they get reissued so I'm all for some amendments. Particularly for Dark Souls. I haven't played much this gen but that's the one game that really blew me away.

Funnily enough I think Goldeneye was a 10 at the time but it's dated now so not much point in changing it. Halo 1 made it pretty obsolete.

SF4 isn't a particularly good fighting game either. It's just popular because of the branding or something. I think it's ugly as well, at least compared to KoF.

I'd argue that you can rate a remastered version of a game, like the HD updates or compilations. But going back and changing old reviews to say "we should have given this a higher score" is pretentious.

[guythp]

Didn't computer magazines do that anyway? Certainly when they were re-released on budget.. Wasn't it Amiga Power that did this? Certainly Your Sinclair changed their reviews/scores on second release (and YS certainly changed the status of Chaos & Deathchase3D in the last issue). No harm in changing your opinion of something going back to it after a few year, is there?

[merman]

Didn't computer magazines do that anyway? Certainly when they were re-released on budget.. Wasn't it Amiga Power that did this? Certainly Your Sinclair changed their reviews/scores on second release (and YS certainly changed the status of Chaos & Deathchase3D in the last issue). No harm in changing your opinion of something going back to it after a few year, is there?

All that's changed with a budget review is the value for money. Although ZZAP! did make some major shifts in budget scores (Quedex scored high at full price) but that was mostly down to different reviewers.

What Edge are doing is saying "we should have given this a higher score at the time" which is revisionist and to a large extent swayed by popular opinion. I used to like their feature looking back at old games and re-evaluating them, which works fine. But it didn't put a new score at the end.