Proof Gamespot is Officially Made of Morons

Go watch this video, showcasing two Gamespot employees covering Dissidia 012 [Duodecim] Final Fantasy. It's 20 minutes long and yes, you need to see the entire thing. There are numerous gaffes throughout the video and proof that the once great Gamespot is now clinging to life as IGN, Joystiq, and Gametrailers take over Internet-based gaming coverage.

Done watching that video?

Pretty bad wasn't it? So when exactly did Gamespot start going downhill? To start off with, it was their review of Chrono Cross, which they (now) controversially gave a perfect 10. Back when Chrono Cross came out, Square could do no wrong and was largely infallible. To give a Square game a bad rating was blasphemous and Gamespot took it to new levels by giving the incredibly average Chrono Cross a perfect 10 score. Thinking the game would be epic based on the score, many fans of Chrono Trigger were very disappointed in the sequel.

But the straw that broke the camel's back for most people was their review of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. Now, by no means is Twilight Princess the greatest Zelda game ever, but it is still an incredibly good game that most people would agree should be rated between a 9.2 or 9.4. It has it's flaws preventing it from being better than Wind Waker, but it is by no means a disappointment or at all bad. Gamespot apparently didn't feel that way and rated Twilight Princess an 8.8, extremely controversial because no Zelda game had EVER been given a rating less than a 9.0 by any major gaming publication or website. At first many Wii and/or Nintendo haters used this score to gloat about the superiority of the 360 or PS3, but then many other reviews began pouring in and eventually Twilight Princess locked in an aggregate score of 95/100. At this point, it became very clear that the Gamespot reviewer was out of his mind.

In fact, he truly was. The man who reviewed Twilight Princess not only admitted that he hated the action/adventure genre, but he hates Zelda games. For Gamespot to hire someone who was already biased against not only a particular genre, but a particular franchise shows incredibly poor journalistic integrity. In the original review, it was stated that the only reason the game did not get a higher score was because the Wii version had tacked on motion controls and was really just a port of a Gamecube game. When the Gamecube version came out a few months later, he reviewed that version as well and, surprise surprise, he gave it an 8.9. Apparently, the native controls that he so begged for just could not get the score pushed enough to get that "precious" 9.0. The review was insulting and from that day forward, no one looked at Gamespot seriously.


Dissidia 012 [Duodecim] Final Fantasy comes out March 22 in North America.