What's wrong with this picture?
Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 4:03 am
I was on Gamerankings.com, and for a laugh I decided to look through some average rankings of old games. Naturally one of my first searches was "Metal Gear". If you're unfamiliar with Gamerankings.com, it's a site that takes scores of all the reviews from the big sites and averages them out.
I came to a page with these types of scores-
MetalGear Solid 3: Snake Eater- 92.8% (Should be a bit higher)
MetalGear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty- 95.1% (Shouldn't be higher than MGS3)
MetalGear Solid- 92.7% (Definitely should be higher than than MGS2)
and then I saw-
MetalGear Solid (MetalGear: Ghost Babel)- 98.1% (WHAT!?)
Okay, I could see where the rank came from, as it really did push the hardware to its limits, and despite some annoying sections it was still a good game. However, it really had no place riding on top of the series. There were far too many annoyances, a fairly poor plot, some crappy characters, and an abysmal 2-Player mode.
I just shook my head.
Then, I looked at the overall best scores chart. Guess what was sitting right behind Ocarina of Time (which is the Number 1 game in the chart). Yup- Ghost, bloody, Babel. Honestly, look for yourself-
http://www.gamerankings.com/itemranking ... rankings=y
To be honest, I think 7.8/10 (the lowest rank listed for the game) is a fair score.
I came to a page with these types of scores-
MetalGear Solid 3: Snake Eater- 92.8% (Should be a bit higher)
MetalGear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty- 95.1% (Shouldn't be higher than MGS3)
MetalGear Solid- 92.7% (Definitely should be higher than than MGS2)
and then I saw-
MetalGear Solid (MetalGear: Ghost Babel)- 98.1% (WHAT!?)
Okay, I could see where the rank came from, as it really did push the hardware to its limits, and despite some annoying sections it was still a good game. However, it really had no place riding on top of the series. There were far too many annoyances, a fairly poor plot, some crappy characters, and an abysmal 2-Player mode.
I just shook my head.
Then, I looked at the overall best scores chart. Guess what was sitting right behind Ocarina of Time (which is the Number 1 game in the chart). Yup- Ghost, bloody, Babel. Honestly, look for yourself-
http://www.gamerankings.com/itemranking ... rankings=y
To be honest, I think 7.8/10 (the lowest rank listed for the game) is a fair score.