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Gamespot vs IGN

Better one?

  • Gamespot

    Votes: 16 59.3%

  • IGN

    Votes: 11 40.7%
  • Total voters
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Narrat0r

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What would be your favorite game review site of these two? Personally, when I want to read a review, I always visit Gamespot, because it's faster, simple, but still, it's a little harsh on the ratings. IGN on the other hand, is a far more advanced site, it looks better (slower although), has a lot more features than Gamespot, but it's pretty light on ratings.
 

Geazergimli2

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I hardly ever go to any of these, but just based off of popularity.. im going to go with IGN, i don't really hear much from Gamespot at all... and this is where my vote stands :D
 

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Vengeancekael said:
IGN almost gives a higher rating to games than almost any other video game journalism website and second, it's the ugliest and messiest website I have ever seen.
Also gamespot is a video game journalism website only, IGN reviews movies etc as well.
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I don't see how IGN giving higher scores is a negative aspect, how dare they not like video games. Their site isn't aesthetically messy as much as it functionally. I don't like the direction all of these sites are going.

And in terms of content and how in-depth articles are, IGN easily trumps Game$pot. Although the endless advertisement spam on IGN do make the comment sections almost useless.
 

MGCǂSpectre

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I'll say gamespot although I've only heard their names, dont follow them. The reason: IGN made a sc2 beta key contest and they said they would give out keys and the contest was closed then 2 months passed and they didnt give anything. Was a disappointment back at those desperate times for a site with popularity.
 

ArneXis

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It seems to me that IGN assigns only 1 person to review a game while gamespot has a team and by that gamespot is better... but gamespot is the biggest commercial whore i have ever seen, going even so far as firing employees for reviewing a game negatively after the game devs financed them.
 

Narrat0r

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ArneXis said:
It seems to me that IGN assigns only 1 person to review a game while gamespot has a team and by that gamespot is better... but gamespot is the biggest commercial whore i have ever seen, going even so far as firing employees for reviewing a game negatively after the game devs financed them.
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*cough*Kane and Lynch*cough*

Also, what I meant by IGN giving too high ratings - WAAAY too much games get 10/10 on IGN. I mean, Majora's Mask? Sonic Pocket Adventure? Pokemon Red and Blue? Those are all good games, but they definitely don't deserve a 10/10.
 

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@Joe-black-5: WTF does blistered thumbs and the Nostalgia Critic have to do with gamespot and ign here? :p
Well, whatever. It's cooler with IGN, since gamespot's people are just soooo big whores. They hear a well famous game, and rate it 9.5 at least. Fuck em, they're not that fair.
But IGN has a sooooooooooo bad search engine... I don't know if it's only for me, but it is just. plain. shit. So, I vote for gamespot.
 

Joe-black-5

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Jaret said:
@Joe-black-5: WTF does blistered thumbs and the Nostalgia Critic have to do with gamespot and ign here? :p
Well, whatever. It's cooler with IGN, since gamespot's people are just soooo big whores. They hear a well famous game, and rate it 9.5 at least. Fuck em, they're not that fair.
But IGN has a sooooooooooo bad search engine... I don't know if it's only for me, but it is just. plain. shit. So, I vote for gamespot.
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They review about everything :p games included, so yeah.
 

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Almost everything about IGN is worse than gamespot, except its reviews. Ign's reviews are very in-depth, and to my knowledge, they never give 10's unless they are truly earned. Also, if a game is really popular, they WILL assign more than one guy to review it. They had over 8 people review fallout new vegas, including people who didn't and did play fallout 3.
I pick IGN. They also are very good at leading up to new games.
 

Narrat0r

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Vosty said:
Almost everything about IGN is worse than gamespot, except its reviews. Ign's reviews are very in-depth, and to my knowledge, they never give 10's unless they are truly earned. Also, if a game is really popular, they WILL assign more than one guy to review it. They had over 8 people review fallout new vegas, including people who didn't and did play fallout 3.
I pick IGN. They also are very good at leading up to new games.
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Actually, about the 10's... IGN has gave out 3X more 10's than Gamespot, and rates games far more lighter.
 
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