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Jeremy
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| My most memorable PALGN reviews by Jeremy |  | | PALGN Feature: Gamers love nostaligia and lists. | | [View Article] |
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Man pretty much apart from zelda I've agreed with all of your reviews.
Sad to see you go.
Guess we'll be seeing you over on the rocket page?
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| Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2012 4:50 pm Post subject: |
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A brilliant set of reviews Jeremy, you should be proud. I, and I'm sure all others, hope to see more from you soon.
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Tales of Syphonia!?
Fucking hell, you're old!
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Well done Bossman! You've certainly had the gamut of fantastic, generation-defining games as well as some true duds, and some interesting commentary on the gaming industry and gaming journalism. Disappointed that you didn't get any reference to Elf Bowling in there somehow though 
Anyway, to shamelessly rip off the idea, here are some of my own memorable reviews of the top of my head:
*UFC Undisputed 2010: Everyone remembers their first!
*WRC: FIA World Championship: I was probably way too nice to this one in both score and commentary, but it was fun when I did rip into it. Never thought I'd weave a Thelma and Louise reference into anything!
*Cave Story: The first title of mine to get above an 8.5 and my first WiiWare game. It was an outstanding game and I stand by everything I said in that review - plus my original writeup for the Nintendo Store Update had my best ever blurb!
*Okamiden: I had a lot of joy playing the game and it translated into the review. I was also pretty heartened to read the comments afterwards of people who were buying the game because of my writeup.
*National Geographic Challenge: has the distinction of being my lowest score ever. But I somehow managed to make it through!
*The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D: It's not often that a person gets to review a Zelda title and I took the opportunity whole-heartedly. This little gem is also my highest scoring game on PALGN at 9.5.
*Gears of War 3: Probably the most high-profile game I have reviewed and definitely the one with the biggest response in the community. Still disagree with Cian thinking it's worthy of a nine though
*Professor Layton and the Last Spectre: My very last review, containing the word last in the title and my last ever score above 8.5. I don't think I could have wanted a better game to finish up on.
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| Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2012 5:24 pm Post subject: |
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Jeremy shut up and kiss me i mean great job over the many many years 
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| Cody Giunta wrote: | | *Gears of War 3: Probably the most high-profile game I have reviewed and definitely the one with the biggest response in the community. Still disagree with Cian thinking it's worthy of a nine though |
CliffyB would like a word with you...
(My own view is that it's an 8)
In other news, I tell people to get Strangehold every time I see it for cheap - or every time they think of picking up Wet. Didn't get the PS3 limited edition though, so I still haven't seen Hardboiled. No R4 DVD to my knowledge either. Sigh.
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Nier owns.
Shamelessly copying Jeremy and Cody.
- No More Heroes: Desperate Strugge: First review, and still my best opener.
- Metroid: Other M: Liked it more than a lot of people, but I was still challenged to articulate why a franchise I deeply admired and loved failed to live up to it's predecessors.
- Donkey Kong Country Returns: I had been awake for about 28 hours and wrote this in an insomniac haze (alcohol might have been involved), and had to apologise to Adam afterwards for having to deal with the trainwreck of writing I produced. I love the review but man did it require some cleaning up.
- White Knight Chronicles II: Fuck this shitty game and fuck every hour I spent with it.
- Xenoblade: A weaboo RPG that I not only liked, but loved. Got super dooper redonkulously hooked and churned through the entire game and review in a crazy short period of time. Loved every second.
- Assassin's Creed: Revelations: Jesus fuck my last review was this?! NOOOOOOOOOOOO!
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^What, no mention of the highly contentious review you did for Epic Mickey ?
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OH YEAH
- Epic Mickey: Because the huge Disney fan in me was forced to find a place between the incredible art and story concept, and the incredibly average and unpolished fetch quest gameplay. Probably my biggest disappointment of all my reviews by a long short, because I was super excited and really wanted to like it. At least the aftermath that followed was worth it.
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A great series of reviews indeed Jeremy! You've done some fantastic work over the years, congrats, and I look forward to seeing more from you in the future! 
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| Jarrod wrote: | | At least the aftermath that followed was worth it.[/list] |
Tell us more 
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| Cyph wrote: | | Tell us more |
Not-so-long story cut shorter, we were accidentally among the first (if not the very first) Epic Mickey reviews on the net. Before IGN, before Gamespot, before everywhere. We were first by a couple of hours, which might not seem like much, but in the case of rabid fanboys it is. My review was plastered all over the internet and, in some places, ripped apart by Nintendo fanboys who couldn't hack the concept of their super duper gritty Disney Wii killer app not meeting expectations. It got a lot of hits and a lot of exposure and that's not exactly ideal for some people when the score is 6.5/10.
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Ahh. Knowing that, I bet you wished you scored it lower, just to shake the hornets nest.
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In a way, yes .
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Have to say that based on the record, yours is an opinion I can trust. Thanks for sharing your passions and insight.
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Shame you won't be adding Kingdoms of Amalur to you're impressive review collection on this site.
Along with all the great games you reviewed, I would more so like to thank you for all the bad games you reviewed. Playing bad games so we don't have to.
I have an idea, you could review the Tales of Symphonia remake on 3DS if you go to another site and have things come full circle.
Im curious, after you leave how many people would still be here that have been with the site since the beginning?
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Thanks, glad I wasn't kept out of the loop. I may not be the most frequent poster but I've been a regular (visitor) to this site for 6 years. Of course, the writers of this site lead, I will follow.
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You've reviewed some great games Jeremy. Lost Odyssey, Dragon Quest, Tales of Symphonia, Metal Gear, Valkyria Chronicles, OutLand, Zelda and even NIER! Some of your reviews have made me purchase actual games so thanks good sir.
I think I'll tag along with all the other guys above.
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I have agreed with pretty much every review I have read of yours during my stay here, look forward to reading many more on thisnew site when it gets up and running. I can honestly say now that I probably wont frequent this site much now there isnt any new news or reviews but look forward to catching up with everyone on greener pastures!
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Jeremy, excellent work and an excellent career with PALGN. You got style! 
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| Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2012 10:44 pm Post subject: |
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Congratulations, Jeremeister! An awesome list of reviews to say the least.
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I AM COPYING. And man it's hard for me to pick - I've done a LOT of really high quality titles.
Killzone 2: One of my first really big titles to review, and one I was very proud of as an article as well. I was full of excitement and still hold it as one of the PS3's finest titles.
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves: I played and finished the game on the hardest difficulty available and got a review up in less than 12 hours overall. Not joking. It's also the first 9.5 I ever gave out and was an adrenaline rush to get done and on time against competitive sites. Feelsgoodman.jpg
LittleBigPlanet 2: I pissed people off with this one and it made me laugh lots. This was good times for sure. Andy hates me ehehehe.
Battlefield 3: This games score did not please the publisher, this is for sure. But I felt I justified its score and was happy with how my review panned out for it.
Modern Warfare 2: Showing off my PC pride and doing an entirely seperate review to Anthony's excellent review for console, I took this game down a couple of notches and told it how it was on PC. Felt good at the time to be able to knock it down like that and be honest.
StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty: This game was so exciting and passion-fueled when it came to its review. Over a decade of anticipating it and replaying SC1 over and over again, and it was finally here. Another very big game for me, as it was my second 9.5.
Demon's Souls: A very difficult game to review as it took hours to complete combined with immense challenge. It was also not even available in Australia at the time, so I was one of the only aussie dudes around that took this one on.
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Dark Souls: The only game I have ever given a 10 to. The only game I will defend to the grave when it comes to its rating, and most importantly it was my most passionate and extensive review. I poured into it after 100+ hours of game time and for me personally, it's my holy grail for reviews.
Good times and great classic hits with PALGN. Hopefully with that new place that I am probably heavily involved in will continue all this.
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I was just thinking, do you know how many reviews you've written over the years, Jeremy? I'm not sure if you or PALGN keep track of it.
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