You guys need to stop using the bloated review scale from last gen. Angry Joe uses the correct one, which is what used to be used before last gen and what many reviewers are going back to.

A 5 is average. A 6 is just above average. 7 is a pretty good game. 8 is very good. 9 is great/excellent. 10 is damn near perfect.

So much talk about review score, I mean who really cares ? This game is great fun when played with friends (crap alone tho). This game neeeds a lot more content but it has huge potential.

So Don, quick question. Do you consider anything scored a 7 a bad game?

I don't think reviewers ever used that scale, I don't even know if the claim that the 7th gen was more lenient than previous gens is even has that much merit.

I am still waiting for your personal review

Of course it holds merit. They were handing out 9s like candy, including bug ridden messes. It's also why you see gamers this gen, freaking out about their favorite game getting a 7, even though that's not a bad score.

Games are far more nuanced for there to be only 2 good scores to get, a 9 and a 10, with 8 being above average. That leaves the vast majority of the scale equaling shit to be avoided. But, there are just as many varying levels to good games as there are for bad ones, which is why good reviewers use the whole scale. . 

But do you have something like an actual graph that shows the average score per-year throughout the site's history?

Evidence to back a claim up, what fresh hell is this?

Also, what if the games last gen were just better than what we have gotten thus far this gen? 

If I were to give a 7 to a game it would be on the realm of the forgetful, won't touch this anymore. If you are asking about metacritic, for the history of VGC 80 have been considered average and 70 bad, and you won't ever see me in any thread saying I agree or use metacritic for anything (in fact most users on this site don't agree with metacritic and when looking at reviews prefer to look at a reviewer that have similar taste to them). Still the point stand (not that SoT is bad because of the metacritic) but that a 69 on metacritic have been considered a bad score (not a bad game, you can differentiate right) for a long time on VGC.

Reason I am asking is because if many in here want to jump on SoTs reviews based off Critics than all games should be considered equal. I remember you defending Gran Turismo Sport that suffered the same fate as SoTs with its lack of content at launch where the game sits on a 75 Metacritic. Someone like yourself who is a GT fan, do you consider GTS a bad game because its a 7 game by majority of critics?

Reviews are nothing but guidelines, I can see that some gamers fall in love with games that reviewed averagely. To me games are only judged by those who actually played them.