tyr2180

Yeah, you make a good point, although I think you zeroed in on that word because if you replace "fun" with "high quality" or another, more objective adjective, the point itself it cogent. Points for defending your review with aplomb. -Tyr2180, who thinks the second-best CoH game is better than 80+% of the games that get released.

I am one of the worst oxymorons known to man: a casual player of hard core strategy games. I have only a few hours a month to devote to my passion, and I listened to this podcast specifically because I thought it would be a good way to play CoH2 vicariously. I bought CoH, played it a little and loved it, and will probably buy CoH2 and probably play it a little. So that's where I come from when I say that Tom Chick seems like the worst game reviewer on the planet FOR PEOPLE LIKE ME. When I decide I need a new game, I'll scan a handful of reviews, see the scores, and make a purchase. Based on this, CoH2 by definition must be less fun than every 2-star game reviewed by Tom, and more fun than every 0-star game. I expect that will not be the case, which makes no sense to me. Don't give me blather about decades of context that professional game reviewers have. Scores are used to comparitively rate a game's quality - not just compared to the other games in that series, but in all games competing for my attention and money. Don't use your review to make a historical statement about the halcyon days of our youth. CoH2 doesn't deserve 1 star because it's the second best CoH game Relic made.