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I'm pretty sure most reviews are done on debug units, so in that regard achievements on a GT attached to a retail unit would pretty often prove to be a bad way of judging someone's playtime with a game. In fact, using achievements as a measure of how much game has been played seems like a fool's errand all the time.

In this particular case, it appears that

a) you don't necessarily earn a ton of achievements anyway (Giant Bomb's Jeff Gerstmann mentioned only having 330), and
b) some of them are unlocked only if you're on the victorious team, so you may not get them anyway.

And, of course, is the little addition they posted at the end that Griffin played about 12 hours of the game. That's a far cry from 2 hours. Take that as you will. I don't see any reason to not believe that, not any more than I disbelieve any other game review that just seems a little bit off of the mean. Especially when you read the review, Griffin brings up specific complaints that I can reason out as problems that really become frustrating after multiple hours of playing.

Calling a reviewer incompetent over petty, refutable nonsense is insulting, especially if it's flat out wrong and I can completely understand getting mildly defensive about it. I'm not entirely sure about the "alcoholic parent" comment but you just called him a twat and said he has a "delusions of grandeur" (...what?), so yeah.

@Gaddes

Maybe it's because it's incredibly insulting for people to insult your work, especially when you put a lot of time and effort into it? I'd get pretty defensive, too.

@ForeverAndEver

Man, I am *so surprised* that someone who's already bought the game before release takes issue with the review!

@anoffday
The anti-EA thing is so old and played out at this point. They haven't been the monolithic, game-pushing machine ala current Activision for years now.

I refuse to accept this. Activision is evil and they must've put viruses on the website or something just to help advance their mission of world domination and the ruination of the almighty video game industry.

@ThePotato

This is the first year that I feel like Joystiq's weighted system did them a disservice, especially with the back half of the list. I usually find myself agreeing with most of the final selections, but not so much this time around. Oh well.

I got some games for Cristmas, but my favorite gift was a great cookbook.

I want this Fallout sign because I'm a poor college student and a neon sign (of any sort) would look pretty bad ass in my apartment.

Aw, rats! First his HAIR, now the ENGINE... Ninja Theory is really screwing the pooch with this one. This game I've never played sucks.

Capcom was looking to buy Gearbox, but they were only interested in making amazing 3D Realms games.