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Words Of Wisdom on 10 February 2009
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nordlead said:
Words Of Wisdom said:

The only stupid thing here is the creation of yet another useless rating system of random numbers where you ignore the entire other areas of the industry in reviews.  I guess the thing that bugs me the most is that not taking other platforms into consideration means that a 7 rated Wii game is not equal to a 7 rated 360 game which is not equal to a 7 rated PS3 game and when you have absolute categories, not being able to compare absolutely is flawed.

say you have a graphically "average" wii game, and a graphically "average" ps3 game. You know the ps3 game is going to be graphically superior, because the ps3 has way more power, but the graphics are "average" for the system. Most people can use that information to decide which game they want to buy.

Do you really need to put it on an absolute scale? if you do, then graphics shouldn't affect the overall score to much, cause the Wii would be forced to score between 2-8, yet the PS3/360 would be forced to score between 5-10. You now have 2 completely differnt and meaningless scores cause the PC now needs to score between 2-11, cause 11 is louder... I mean better.

I think having them all in the ring would lend clarity to the matter and put things into perspective.  That definitely includes the PC.  These days people very much want to compare games across platforms.  Every time a game comes out for HD consoles we get tons of comparisons with other HD console games as well as even PC games.  It'd be nice to see a rating scale that penalizes the deficiencies of all the platforms.

Regardless, that's not the direction vgChartz will go.  The sad part is that the best vgChartz will achieve with its current direction in reviews is simple mediocrity.

Machina-AX said:

Such a system would completely mess up the scores - PS360 owners would argue that almost all Wii games deserve low presentation scores, whilst Wii owners would counter-argue that almost all PS360 games deserve low gameplay scores because they lack Wiimote-like controls. I would be extremely disheartened if that sort of tit-for-tat began taking place in our reviews.

After playing RE4 Wii with its excellent controls and then trying RE5 on an HD console, the transition is painful.  I don't understand the inclination to pretend that a superior control system doesn't exist especially when the reminder it does is so poignant.