Comments on: Terence Ang, Infamous Freelance Game Reviewer

By: SaitouSad

SaitouSad — Tue, 04 May 2004 05:58:06 +0000

I think nothing can beat the monstrosity that was the Chaos Legion PC review for the PC on Computer Times….
From wat I saw, the writer clearly had no freaking idea what the game was abt. He even miraculously made up some insane story that wasn’t even close to what the real story was about. He even compared it (very very wrongly) to games like Devil may cry (which he called Devil May CARE!!! in the review), which has more platforming elements, ergo making a rather unfair comparison. My only guess was that he:
1)Did not play the game and tried to gather as much materials as he can from really crappy web sites.

2) Could have bought the chinese version (which I believe MAY contain 8 other language options, including english, inside. Correct me if I’m wrong on this.) and tried to figure out the story from there with his presummably piss-poor grasp of the language.

Anyway, jus my misc. ranting….
O btw, that writer was a freelance too…can’t recall his name though.

By: ZeroEx

ZeroEx — Mon, 03 May 2004 14:53:28 +0000

Any self respecting gamer would have spend at least some time to familarise themselves with a game before even giving a review.. something which this reviewer obviously lacked…

By: KIRBYSIM

KIRBYSIM — Sun, 02 May 2004 19:10:58 +0000

Yeah, I read about it in a GS thread sometime back.

It’s really amazing the kind of errors journalists can make sometimes, especially when they are paid to write accurately.

By: Marill

Marill — Sat, 01 May 2004 16:48:38 +0000

You know, KIRBYSIM, you have been spared an even WORSE article on Computer Times about graphics card. Of have you read that too?

I remebered it was their “Feature Article” informing readers about the latest Graphics Cards technology. The article was abuot Hardware T&L. Well, Hardware T&L stands for Hardware TRANSFORM and LIGHTING.

And well, the writer of the article thought T&L stands for TEXTURE and Lighting, and then happily went on the entire article talking about texture compression techniques on graphics cards! Totally incredible! You’d never guess the depth of the Abyss Computer Times and that writer was at!