Dogz Comments by Eurogamer staff

1 out of 5??

So thats 2 out of 10?

Love the first caption.

Soooooo, is 1/5 really a higher score than 1/10? :)

put this game down with a dog needle

Dogging on a weekend sir?

Heh, I wrote that before I saw MORZTAN's comment.

Yeah right... ;)

Would Nintendogs have been an 'out of 5' review, then?

Sad thing is, the artwork in this game makes me want to play it :D

/scolds

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Virtual killing machine, ready to go!

I'm sure when they release Catz it will be much better.

Just press A twice each session, let it out once, wait half an hour, let it back in. Maybe even press A a third time to feed it if it hasn't successfully killed all the garden life.

How old is Ellie? Why doe sshe keep getting given the crappy kids games that are guaranteed to be shite?

PS COngratulations itamae on being the first poster to make me laugh out loud this morning!

"As a result, training your pet is a tedious experience - as are pretty much all the other tasks you're given"

Sounds a bit like when I was training my Whippet...........

Sad thing is it might even sell since nintendogs is so fooking hard to get a hold off.

It doesn't use the graphical style first developed for the 3D fighting game 'Ballz', therefore if you ask me, it aint Dogz.

Imagine a petting-sim called Ballz...

Now thats a mature Nintendo

"Children's titles are rated out of five to differentiate them from the standard Eurogamer scoring system."

That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard.

"Children's titles are rated out of five to differentiate them from the standard Eurogamer scoring system.

That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard."



Actually no, reading the review should be enough. On a scale of 1 to 10..... wtf?

.::: Actually this game has very little to do with the Petz series. It's a Japanese pet-game UB simply brought over here to slap Dogz on it. It's not incredibly bad, and after completing the main game you get an 'always-together' mode allowing the boring school-parts and such to be stripped out. The catch being that the pup won't be able to learn anything else, so you need to train it before unlocking always-together, giving the entire game a (slightly) more strategic feel.

As such, it's far more a real game than nintendogs, which will suit some people far better than others. Combined with the rather nice graphics it's certainly not-as-good-as, but it's far from the ultimate disaster the 1/5 makes it out to be.

Maybe they should've made it for the PSP?

1 out of 5??

So thats 2 out of 10?


OH FFS. Give it a rest, you sad geeks!

Read the review, look at the score. It's a shit game thats not worth buying. Thats ALL you need to know!!!

OH F, yourse... no, better not start

lol, smelly, you've got a lot to learn. :)

lol, smelly, you've got a lot to learn. :)

No the geeks which keep going on about the flipping scores have got a lot to learn!

If I've upset some of them, im sorry - but they really do need to learn to get a life.

It's this kinda crap which gives us gamers a bad rep amonst people. You dont see people moaning about movie/book reviews being out of 3 or 5 or whatever do you? The fact that games geeks do, just makes the rest of the non gaming world laugh at us, and look down their noses at our past-time.

I dont know about you lot, but im fed up of being a tard with the "geek" brush just because i play games, and it's PURELY down to geeky comments going on about whether 1/5 means any more than 2/10 or 1/10 or 10/100 or 3/100. It's MEANINGLESS!

And it's worse still when you start going on about how DARE they only give game X 4 out of 10. Magazine Y gave it 60%, so you MUST be wrong, yadda yadda yadda. Stuff like this makes me EMBARRASED to be a gamer.

Just wait 'til the Top 50 gets going...

Actually my first comment was a failed attempt to write something amusing. I don't give a flying hoot about the low score. Sorry for ruining your day, and life. ;)

.::: A Top 50? :) I hope you've taken precautions.

smelly said:

"Stuff like this makes me EMBARRASED to be a gamer."

How about your spelling, does that embarrass you at all?

As for the pointlessness of scoring games in a review: whatever you may think of that, it is the norm in videogames journalism and Eurogamer is no exception. If it troubles you, don't look at the number. The point under discussion here is not the actual score awarded to the game at hand but rather the decision on the part of Eurogamer to arbitrarily switch their scoring system for certain kinds of products. It makes no sense whatsoever.

You could certainly argue that it merely serves to underline the pointlessness of scoring games at all, but at the same time there's no point in acting all surprised when regular readers of Eurogamer exclaim "What the fuck?" in unison at such baffling decisions.

I'm with smelly on this one (possibly a first, though I feel a little less "passionate" about the subject). The comparison to movie and book reviews was right on the money (except in online forums about books and movies of course, where everyone is just as bad).

Since this is a kids game, I feel the need to ask if you were reviewing it with the potential gamer in mind being a child or an adult?

lol

ab/c · (a2+b2)/c + ab/2 = ab + (ab/c · a2/c + ab/c · b2/c)/2 ab/c · (a2+b2)/c/2 = ab/2, or (a2+b2)/c2 = 1

just to clear things up here is ellie's working out

As for the pointlessness of scoring games in a review: whatever you may think of that, it is the norm in videogames journalism and Eurogamer is no exception.


Everyone's moved on from this now, but i think you've missed my point.

My point isnt on the pointlessness of score, but on the pointlessness of geeks arguing about or comparing scores. *sigh*, but i dont know why im even bothering to try to explain this.