| forevercloud3000 said: the reason I prefer the point values(.1+) is because when a reviewer does this it usually means that there is something within the game that warrants slightly more symbolism then just an 8 or 9. This means the review takes in more details from the game to explain WHY the game got that grade in the first place. I would not go as far as 9.99999999 bull. That is insane. 9.1-9.9 would do for me. Details people, details. |
That's the problem though, reviews are more complex than a score can possibly portray.... the more detail the score goes into, the more it is based on the reviewers own opinion rather than on whether the game is worth purchasing.
With a 5 or 7 point scale, say using:
Outstanding.
Excellent
Good
Average
Mediocre
Poor
Horrible
This would stop people using random numbers to determine how good a game is, and also could have stopped the "review inflation" that seems to have happened with gaming, (where a game isn't considered worth playing if it is reviewed under 75%)
With this scale, reviewer bias would only show in extreme cases like with GTAIV (which would have got too many outstandings) or with many Wii games being reviewed poorly (nothing could have stopped the overwhelming bias against the Wii by most old style reviewers)
In fact I would even argue taking out the "outstanding" and the "mediocre" levels in favour of a 5 level scale.
