For those currently unaware, for the past several months we've been doing occassional staff reviews of games, gearing up towards a full-fledged system. Part of this process will require determining exactly how we're going to score these reviews when we go "official". So far, the options are:
- Keep the current letter grade system (A+, B-, etc.)
- Score out of 100% using each point (98%, 82%, etc.)
- Score out of 10 using half points (9.5, 8.0, etc.)
- Score out of 10 using whole points (9.0, 8.0, etc.)
- Switch to a 5-star system (4.5 stars, 3 stars, etc.)
- Don't use grades at all, just text (not really a feasible option for various reasons)
Or whatever else you can think of.
Let us know what you think. Currently I like the letter grades we have as they're directly representative of real quality tiers (A = great/outstanding, B = good/above average, C = average, D = mediocre/barely passing, F = bad/terrible). I'm also against the idea that reviewers can really grade realistically on a full 100-point scale, so would prefer to score out of 10 using half-points instead of that. The other issue is that the lower half of most 10 or 100 point scales are used much less often than the upper half, which the letter system gets around by assigning the entire lower half of that scale a single "F" grade.
Anyway the staff has been arguing over this for months now and can't seem to come to a consensus, so what do you think?
Edit: If you didn't know we even did reviews, here's a list:
http://news.vgchartz.com/index.php?tfilter=Review&cfilter=All
