The definitive Space Giraffe thread

Dio · Post by **Dio** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 12:48 pm 0

That's what I was asking about the PR for. For something as different as Giraffe it seems to have a lot of value for me...

phattslagg · Post by **phattslagg** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 12:56 pm 0

Yeah - I can't believe that anyone who was excited about SG before this score won't even bother to download a free demo now because of it. Plenty of others will still try it because of the kerphuffle it's causing, and to see which side of the fence they lie on.

Also, if the final text does contain supposed negatives such as "LSD nightmare", well.. anyone who's into Jeff's games are going to expect nothing less, are they?

chub · Post by **chub** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 1:16 pm 0

This whole thing hasn't changed anything for me. I'm still very much looking forward to the release of SG.

Peet · Post by **Peet** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 1:28 pm 0

Egad, the stench of fanboyism!

Seriously, I don't know what kind of fluffy universe most of you people live in, but since when do game reviewers have a clue or the mainstream care about Llamasoft?

And Jeff, FFS, the Rev is right. You ARE paranoid. No one hates you, much less is out to get you.

Yak · Post by **Yak** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 1:31 pm 0

Peet wrote:Egad, the stench of fanboyism!

Seriously, I don't know what kind of fluffy universe most of you people live in, but since when do game reviewers have a clue or the mainstream care about Llamasoft?

And Jeff, FFS, the Rev is right. You ARE paranoid. No one hates you, much less is out to get you.

oh, shut the fuck up. My comments referred to (a) the fact that 2 is not even a fair "indifference" score, it's a deliberately antagonistic one, and the "hate" comment wasn't related to that at all, but to the people HGFB mentioned who moan and whinge on other boards if my name is so much as fucking mentioned.

chub · Post by **chub** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 1:44 pm 0

Peet wrote:Egad, the stench of fanboyism!

Er, no. It's that there's been lots of positive feedback from people on here who have played it, and that makes me want to have a go myself. I'm also looking forward to Phantom Hourglass, Bioshock and Super Paper Mario, and I'm pretty sure Llamasoft didn't write any of those.

gilesgoat · Post by **gilesgoat** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 1:45 pm 0

Yak wrote:
Peet wrote:Egad, the stench of fanboyism!

Seriously, I don't know what kind of fluffy universe most of you people live in, but since when do game reviewers have a clue or the mainstream care about Llamasoft?

And Jeff, FFS, the Rev is right. You ARE paranoid. No one hates you, much less is out to get you.
oh, shut the fuck up. My comments referred to (a) the fact that 2 is not even a fair "indifference" score, it's a deliberately antagonistic one, and the "hate" comment wasn't related to that at all, but to the people HGFB mentioned who moan and whinge on other boards if my name is so much as fucking mentioned.

I'd dare to say that those people that whinge about your name ( and there
really are some ) must have a bit of envy in all this

The fact I think LS proves "it can be done" contrary to the fact some
people say "no it can't" and SG is quite a "slam" for all those saying "no it can't".

I think we are going into a bit of "clash" between "Old School vs The Big Today" but the
thing is we are not at all fighting "the real big corporations" but
"the mentality of the people" that are not even the people in the corps
but are "the people on the streets".

I remember one year ago where everyone was screaming "we want innovation"
and "we want to see different things" bored to see
the same stuff over and over.

Well .. SG is definitely something different so there we go, now you have something different.

Easy to say "it's over rated" when you never made a single code of line
in your whole life and you'll never be able to.

Fact is anyway today internet is really "the best place for moaners", people
that IRL would probably never go beyond their local pub ( because no
one else cares to listen to them ) find "their space" of moaning in internet.

Anyway .. it's "just" a fucking 2 in a fucking magazine on a fucking forum.

Now what I am wating for is "something much better" somewhere else
and I am sure there will be.

Then the real fun will begin "someone says it's shite from one side, someone
says it's really cool from another" .. how this can be ? AH HA ! YOU DECIDE !

At this point only downloading the demo you'll get to see for yourself
what the reality of the thing is.

And in fact that's the ONLY way to see the reality of the thing.

CharlieF · Post by **CharlieF** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 1:49 pm 0

Phantom Hourglass review - by CharlieF

Why's all the dialogue unreadable? Crap game.

Overall 2.0

Deckard · Post by **Deckard** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 1:50 pm 0

Does anyone really care about scores/reviews any more with the amount of pics and videos and free demos these days ?

Patashnik · Post by **Patashnik** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 1:54 pm 0

Peet wrote: but since when do game reviewers have a clue...

Some of us do.

In the Giraffe's defence - that score is bullshit. While I seriously doubt it's meant as an 'attack' - it's still antagonostic.

You can go on about personal preference, everyone's right to an opinion and all that shit until you're blue in the face, but the fact is the score is wrong and the reviewer isn't doing his job properly.

If Space Graffe was broken and unplayable a 2 would be understandable - but it's not. As a product it functions perfectly and is technically sound, so for that reason alone you can't kick its face off.

The reviewer is giving a false impression of the game. He's failed at his job.

Fine, he has every right not to enjoy the game - and articulate that - but under no circumstances could he argue that there's anything actually wrong or defective about SG.

I can only come to the conclusion that whoever reviewed the game has a bit of a fucking problem.

Sir_LANs-a-lot · Post by **Sir_LANs-a-lot** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 1:55 pm 0

See that Bioshock?

Clearly just a bloody derivative ripoff of Castle Wolfenstein innit? SHIT! 2/10

Note: Not really - I played the demo and it's really, really nice and well worth a purchase.

zip accident · Post by **zip accident** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 2:01 pm 0

Is there an URL to somewhere we can check that this table of review scores really exists and is genuine?

It would be silly to have over 16 pages of reaction to something that turned out not to be for real.

I have read the entire thread, I may well have missed a link to that verification in the process.

HGFB · Post by **HGFB** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 2:04 pm 0

Not at the moment. It's an early subscriber copy and nobody seems to have posted a scan yet. The original thread this came from was full of people wanting to know what new info it had about Halo 3 and very little else.

Alarm · Post by **Alarm** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 2:06 pm 0

CharlieF wrote:Phantom Hourglass review - by CharlieF

Why's all the dialogue unreadable? Crap game.

Overall 2.0

I would link to the Rodent review which pretty much says the same thing (it got two also, but two out of five); but I can't see how to find the previous issue on the site, and the reviews section is still populated by dead links, with no recent reviews added.

HGFB · Post by **HGFB** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 2:08 pm 0

http://wayoftherodent.com/revs/reviews.asp?r=73