I wish more gaming sites were like Famitsu with the 4 reviewer set up. It really decreases individual reviewer bias towards the final score.

That's actually a really good idea. Take the average of the four reviews. These sites and publications probably don't have the manpower to pull it off though. I fear some reviewers don't bother to finish the game as is.

I would prefer eliminating the 10 point scale and moving towards a more meaningful scale (and potentially a rubric) ...

In my opinion people really want to know whether you thought the game was 'poor', 'average', 'good', or 'great' (potentially with modifiers above/below for average, very for good/poor, etc) and also want to know how good the game's single player, local multiplayer, online multiplayer, graphics, story, etc where.

A review that looked like:

Single Player: Good
Local Multiplayer: Great
Online Multiplayer: Below Average
Graphics: Below Average
Story: Average
...
Overall: Very Good

Is far more meaingful than "72%"

What about a four-star scale, like many movie critics use?

**** is great
*** 1/2 is excellent
*** is good
** 1/2 is fair
** is poor
* 1/2 is bad
etc.

I agree that the ten-point system needs to be done away with.

5 stars with 5 half stars is exactly the same as a ten-point scale.

Oh, four star scale.  Still, it's very similar. 8-point scale instead of 10.  I suppose it would help eliminate the "grade" mentality of only 70+ being acceptable (a "C" grade) and only 90+ being good (an "A" grade)

The guys at IGN don't seem to optimistic, the way he says it sounds fishy...

It's not a huge change, but I think it might make a huge difference.

You're limited to these scores:

100%
87%
75%
62%
50%
37%
25%
12%
0%

Instead of these scores:

100%
95%
90%
85%
80%
75%
70%
65%
60%
etc.

And don't forget IGN which, for some weird reason, recently reverted back to its 100-point scale.

That's the PS3 version :p but all the versions are probably the same.

I still don't understand why everyone is freaking out over this. Is the review up? no. Do you know that is actually the score they gave it and not an artifact of something else? no. Why don't you wait to see what the actual review says.

Games journalism is a disgrace. These 'journalists' needs to be tougher on games and stop giving into the pre-release hype and marketing*


*but also needs to give games I'm hyped for good scores. Fuck gamespot!