Words Of Wisdom said:
You moved past it. All the industry did was shift from a 2-10 scale to a 6-10 scale and start using decimal points. |
I think this 6-10 scale is a myth. There are lots of games out there which deserve a 5 or lower. Reviewers simply avoid reviewing games that aren't likely to do better than a 5, so it looks like nothing belongs on that part of the scale.
IGN recently gave a 0.8 to one piece of shovelware. I'm sure few other reviewers bothered to look at it, and there are many other shovelware games which even IGN didn't want to waste paid labour and bandwidth on.
It's worth remembering that gaming media is out there trying to sell ads. If a developer can't be bothered to invest moderate production values into a game, they sure as hell aren't going to invest in advertising for it. Why should the gaming media waste time on such things?
But just because the reviews tend to ignore these games doesn't mean that there doesn't need to be a place on the scale for them.
"The worst part about these reviews is they are [subjective]--and their scores often depend on how drunk you got the media at a Street Fighter event." — Mona Hamilton, Capcom Senior VP of Marketing
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