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Mental Gamers exists because of MGaceman’s passion for gaming over the last 30 years or so and that passion is still ongoing for as long as possible. Although news and information is as true as the press releases it’s taken from, Mental Gamers is here to try to give a humourous and somewhat slightly cynical view while being honest with any and all opinions. Despite what anyone may say, this is NOT a personal ‘blog’, it’s not a collection of thoughts about gaming and what anyone played recently, MG does have proper PR contacts and is sent review code whenever possible of which is entirely appreciative, thank you. :)

Comments close on posts once they’re 60 days old, this is just for the sake of common sense, what’s the point of commenting on old news?

A new review system is now in place of scores or marks out of five or ten and works as simple as this:

MGGold Gold is the highest accolade available on Mental Gamers, no pretentious ‘Platinum’ or ‘Extra Mega Special Derp Award’ going on. Games receiving the Gold status means that it’s the equivalent of 85+ out of 100 or between 4 and 5 out of 5.
MGSilver Silver on Mental Gamers means that it’s good, but not quite as good as it could be. That doesn’t mean it’s a bad game. The alternative to Silver would be between 71 and 84 out of 100 or 3 to 3.9 out of 5.
MGBronze Bronze, as you can imagine, is when games don’t make it into the ‘play the demo/trial first’ category and should be approached with caution. Representative scores would be 50 to 70 or 1.5 to 2.9 out of 5.
MGTurd The poopy prize, reserved for those games that will be in the bargain basket within a couple of weeks of release or just don’t make the grade. Quite literally, below average and may possibly be referred to as ‘underrated’ in 20 years time. Relevant scores would be under 1.4 out of 5 or below 50.

Note: Reviews won’t mention too much about what happens too far into a game to steer clear of spoilers, it is not MG’s intention to spoil games, but to give an opinion of how it looks, plays and sounds. That said, a game is played for a minimum of three (3) hours before reviewing, dependant on whether it’s full retail or a download (XBLA/PSN) game.

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