On a ten point review scale, what number should represent an average game?

[Cerebralbore101]

RolStoppable said:

Cerebralbore101 said:
Soooo after reviewing the results of the thread I noticed two things.

1. Most people agree that 5 should be the number assigned to an average game.

2. A game that gets a 5 is not worth buying.

Or to use Rol's argument: Most of the bad games are not reviewed and that drives the average review score up. If all games were reviewed the average review score would be 5, not 7.

^^^This argument implies that your average game is not worth buying. A lot of what other people said, in the thread, echoed this. I'd quote them, but I'm lazy and hate doing multi-quote responses.

Only the first sentence of what you present as my argument is correct. But if all games were reviewed (consoles, PC, mobile), the average review score would come in below 5 if 5 were used for games of average quality (l would define 'average' as "no strong feelings one way or another"). There's a lot of crap out there.

A game of average quality isn't worth buying at its original MSRP, simply because there's enough choice in higher quality tiers nowadays. Bad games would be those that aren't worth buying at any price.

Ah, thanks for clearing that up. So you're saying that if all games were reviewed then the average would dip below 5/10, right? 

IMO a game of average quality (when you count all games in the manner that we're talking about) isn't worth buying at all. There's too many higher quality games out there, like you said.