7 / 10 is ntio average its above average

5 / 10 is average

For Edge Magazine.

We're talking about normal reviewers here.

you have to understand that people here are fanboys.

they use review score as ammo for their fanboy arguments.

Most logical people know that 7/10 for a game genre they like to play is better than 10/10 for a game genre they hate.

For example...as far as my prefferences are concerned, 7/10 Silent hill game is >>>>>>>>>>> 10/10 Final Fantasy game

But you can't package personal prefferences as fanboy arguments so we pretend reviews are be all end all of gaming.

I AM your father.

thing biggest thing wrong with a 7/10 score is that it's not a 8/10 and the biggest thing wrong with that is that it's not 9/10 and what's worse is that it's not 9.1/10 and if 9.1 why not 9.5/10... hol up if it reaches 10/10 it's overrated and overhyped.

Well, Yourfather, you can't tell me what to do, because you're not Kratos, who is in fact my father.

Yourfather is a very nice name, though. Is it New Zealandian?

I don't think a 7/10 review itself is bad, it's when you take into account other reviews. Too often, games of equal quality (in the eyes of the masses) are given vastly different scores, which leads to (often valid) criticisms of certain publishers being biased. Similarly, if 2 games on different platforms get similar reviews by most critics, but then one reviewer/organisation gives them vastly different reviews, people immediately shout "bias".

Seeing as it is the hot topic at the moment, and seems to be the topic this topic was started for, is currently Heavy Rain, lets compare it to an Xbox 360 exclusive with a similar metascore. Both Heavy Rain and L4D2 (360 version, I know there is a PC version but it the only platform exclusive I saw with an identical score) are both at 89 on Metacritic. While Edge gave L4D2 a score of 9/10 (which is practically = 89), they scored Heavy Rain a 7/10 (which is 1.9 points lower than the Metacritic score). This does seem very odd. It's possible, of course, that they didn't enjoy the genre that Heavy Rain was in all that much, but then how come other reviewing organisations *could* find someone.

The problem in a nutshell? It isn't the score itself, but the score when compared against the scores that other games receive.

I am going to start my own site. However, the ratings will be what I consider perfect.
Basically my rating is what I would pay for a game, so naturally all games will start off at a 60 if I consider it a day 1 purchase. If it's not a day one, I'll give it a 50 or 55 as if I bought it used. Then I would submit this score to metacritic, and they would have to take my rating and include it in the average. Who cares if I would be drastically offsetting scores? I have a better scale!

well many review sights site 7 as being a "good" score and then 8 9 10 as superlatives to that so basically 7 is the basic GOOD score then its very good very very good and very very very good XD


for example gamespot
7-good
8-great
9-Superb
10-Perfect

and gamesradar who i appreciate dont attribute 10 to perfect
7-good
8-great
9-Awesome
10-Incredible


so i dont understand why people view 7 as "average or mediocre" cause obviously review sights view a 7 as good

personlly if i had interest in a game and it gets 7s its good enough to warrent a purchase

but i actualy had interest in damnation but that game got 4s and such telling me the game was an injured beast and didnt deliver on expectations however if that game had gotten 7s i would of probly gave it a buy

so in closing NOTHING is wrong with seven it is a GOOD score

There's nothing wrong with 7/10. However, in gaming, it means it's not that pleasant. For example, in a 0 to 10 scale, the average would be 5, but in the gaming world is 7. Grades below it means the game isn't good, and goes worse every lower grade; grades above it means the game gets good every point further.

It's a bit hard to understand where test grades are from A to F, but in places where they are scored like in most games magazines and website, such as mine, is easy to get used to it: 6.5 in a test means you'll have to try harder, because it's not good. Same with the games.