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10.16.2011 8:59pm

Ashilyn
Career GM

The problem with a five point scale is getting people to stick to it, and not using fractions to turn it back into a ten point (or more) system.

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10.16.2011 9:56pm

Spidey
So Sigh Ety

RPGamer also has multiple reviews for the same game sometimes, because they have different people review the game. That's always nice too.

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10.21.2011 7:29pm

Clowd Cole
Dangerous Zombie

This shit is why video game reviews are a joke.

https://uk.videogames.games.yahoo.com/d9/batman-arkham-city-21f0d9.html

Buggle Up! Danger! Danger! (Genocide!) Death the Crisis! Dangerous Zombie!

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10.21.2011 7:37pm

CaButler
Winter Knight of the Unseelie Court

Aside from the fact that it broke the rating scale, the score and review matched up pretty well. The review itself was well written, though short, describing both the good and bad points.

So, what I'm saying is, I don't understand what your complaint is about this particular review.

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10.22.2011 9:45am

Arckanghel
Pirate.

CaButler said:

Aside from the fact that it broke the rating scale, the score and review matched up pretty well. The review itself was well written, though short, describing both the good and bad points.

So, what I'm saying is, I don't understand what your complaint is about this particular review.

There was an Evony ad when I went there. Crime Enough.

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10.22.2011 12:42pm

Big Tall
Taller Than Tall

I was listening to Invisible Walls at Gametrailers this morning and all of this discussion hit home again when they started talking about Ratchet and Clank. The game was given a 7.1 and one of the guys on the show (I forget his name, the host, but it wasn't the game reviewer himself who outright bashed the game and its many flaws) actually said they were discouraging people from buying the game. And the game was given a 7.1.

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10.22.2011 5:32pm

Makeshift Gray
FFO's Blank Earth

I usually trust Destructoid's reviews. They're often decried for giving low scores, but from my perspective, they're actually using the whole 1-10 scale instead of artificially squeezing everything into the 7-10 range.

Speaking of Destructoid (and Ratchet and Clank), this is a pretty interesting read about how Insomniac Games responded to Destructoid's 4/10 score with respect, only a few weeks after Cliff Bleszinski bitched about the "hateful" 8/10 they gave Gears of War 3. http://www.destructoid.com/insomniac-responds-to-4-10-all-4-one-review-with-dignity-214151.phtml

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10.22.2011 9:59pm

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shooter_mcgavin
Registered Member

Big Tall said:

I was listening to Invisible Walls at Gametrailers this morning and all of this discussion hit home again when they started talking about Ratchet and Clank. The game was given a 7.1 and one of the guys on the show (I forget his name, the host, but it wasn't the game reviewer himself who outright bashed the game and its many flaws) actually said they were discouraging people from buying the game. And the game was given a 7.1.

I guess 7.0 is the new bad :P

No wonder FFXIII was considered a "most dissapointing" nominee even though they gave it 8.8 or 8.9 (which rounded off will be a 9.0 ... which most GOYT nominees got).

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10.23.2011 6:57am

Rhaegar
World Warrior 21007

I guess that's another reason Destructoid is one of the better sites. They rated FFXIII below average like it deserves. (Actually I think a 4.0 is still too generous for that game.)

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10.23.2011 5:07pm

Ninja
Registered Member

I've never seen a single reviewer with whom I agreed about every game they reviewed. There is no system that works for everyone, especially not a numbers system since everyone is affected differently by different aspects of a game.

Best way is to watch gameplay videos IMO.

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10.23.2011 7:11pm

Onyx
Butts
Administrator

I find all three of the big three game blogs (Destructoid, Kotaku, and Joystiq) really obnoxious, though I like Kotaku's review format of not assigning scores, but separating things into "Love/Hate."

Joystiq is probably the least offensive overall (though still really bad and their reviews are easily the worst of the three), while Destructoid is like everything awful about Kotaku magnified by 10, except they do have a better layout.

I wonder who'd win in a doucheoff between Tim Rogers and Jim Sterling, though. Because they're two of the biggest douches in game writing, easily.

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10.23.2011 7:34pm

CaButler
Winter Knight of the Unseelie Court

Jim Sterling, easily.

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10.23.2011 10:01pm

Rhaegar
World Warrior 21007

The jackasses who write for PlayStation Magazine are way douchier than any of the blog reviewers. And unlike them, at least Sterling knows what he's talking about.

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10.23.2011 11:00pm

OrionHardy
Otherworld

I tend to avoid legimate review sites. I only really watch Yahtzee for his comical reviews and a Mixture of Sage Reviews and Angry Joe reviews from the TGWTG/blistered thumbs website for actual reviews.

Great men aren't everywhere, just where it counts.

If you ever see me online playing Halo, join me please.

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10.25.2011 5:16pm

Thread Creator (Edited on 10.25.2011 at 5:33pm)

shooter_mcgavin
Registered Member

Wow people are going berserk with Eurogamer's Uncharted 3 review http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-10-21-uncharted-3-drakes-deception-review which further supports my point that gamers are spoiled with infalated scores because the gaming publications have been happy to support them for the last 14 years.

Which is strange cuz the review actually makes a valid point and to the entire Uncharted series as a whole.

It's sad to think we are in a point that the status quo of review scores has come to this: http://i.imgur.com/dh509.png

Edit: What's hilarious though is that Uncharted 2 is probably my 10th Favoriate Game this Generation so far and, if were to use a 10 point scale which I dont, I would probably give it an 8/10 also :P ... I guess if I was a game reviewer a mob would probably beaten me alive by now for not giving high enough scores ( I don't think I would have given a 10 in any game this Gen).

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