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15 years ago @ SmashPad - Review: MLB 2K11 (Xbox... · 0 replies · 0 points

You should figure out who wrote the review before you start accusing me of not knowing my stuff. I've reviewed The Show and 2K for the past several years now and have been playing baseball games every year since Triple Play 97. This year is the only year I couldn't review 2K due to not having the funds to get it.

Alex bought it on the basis of having enjoyed last year's game and he was disappointed that it hadn't changed much. Sports games typically have to fix the issues that the last game had while adding new features and 2K11 failed to do either, so it's a step back while being largely the same game. When you don't improve anything, you stagnate and get worse as a result.

15 years ago @ SmashPad - Review: MLB 2K11 (Xbox... · 0 replies · 0 points

The problem with that assumption is that they're not the only reviews he's ever written. We've got plenty of reviews that we did at gamer20.com that aren't available now due to issues in trying to get all of that stuff transferred to new servers from a poorly coded site created by our old owners. Finding all of those aren't very likely, but I could at least find a March Madness 07 review by him and I'm sure that there are a few more.

15 years ago @ SmashPad - Review: MLB 2K11 (Xbox... · 0 replies · 0 points

What sites do you read that regularly go over five sentences? Most of the sites I read rarely ever get that wordy.

15 years ago @ SmashPad - Review: MLB 2K11 (Xbox... · 4 replies · +1 points

So because we're not a dedicated sports site like Operation Sports, we shouldn't review sports games?

15 years ago @ SmashPad - Review: MLB 2K11 (Xbox... · 0 replies · +1 points

There are only four scores to begin with, so more reviews can push the Metacrtic score in either direction very easily. Metacritic is built to handle a game getting a wide range of reviews while being able to give you an average that tries to give you an idea of what the general consensus is.

The review itself could stand to improve a bit since Alex is new to the format, but the score definitely isn't an issue.

15 years ago @ SmashPad - Review: MLB 2K11 (Xbox... · 6 replies · +1 points

Starting with an insult is always a great idea. In all honesty, you could've just asked Alex to expand upon something and gotten a response to explain something easily.

Our new format isn't really about going into deep detail about different aspects of a game and if you're expecting Operation Sports-style detail/impressions, then you're definitely in the wrong place. Since we're not a sports site, we can't spend an entire week or two writing up impressions before doing a full review for just one game. I enjoy their site a lot, but you already have that kind of site that can meet your needs.

15 years ago @ SmashPad - Review: MLB 2K11 (Xbox... · 4 replies · +2 points

You went to great lengths to find the review for last year's game but can't figure out that the reviewers are different? Alex isn't bound to rate 2K11 based on how I rated 2K10 last year, which is a problem if you're really expecting that to be the case.

15 years ago @ SmashPad - Review: MLB 2K11 (Xbox... · 1 reply · 0 points

Kind of surprised. If they weren't going to add new features or modes, I'd have expected it to be polished to hell and back.

15 years ago @ SmashPad - Review: NCAA Football ... · 0 replies · +1 points

I do actually play the game, and still do, and haven't seen people jump six feet into the air.

15 years ago @ SmashPad - Review: Radiant Histor... · 0 replies · +2 points

I got this at launch and have been enjoying it a lot so far. I like the time travel aspect more than I did in Chrono Trigger since the game makes it easy to keep track of where you need to go and what needs to be done to get what you need. The soundtrack is great, too.

The only real issue I have is not being able to skip through areas on the world map and having to go back through the same areas over and over again. It seems like each successive mission has you go a little bit further out than where you were before.

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