Review numbers are ridiculous. I now pledge I will not use them at all.

[The_vagabond7]

dsister44 said:

theRepublic said:

Words Of Wisdom said:

theRepublic said:

Words Of Wisdom said:

The_vagabond7 said:

We moved past that.

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.

He was talking about literature at that point.  "We" as in the literary community, have moved past that.  That is true.

I don't see any evidence of that.  Right now I see an entire industry mostly satisfied with their near meaningless ratings with a few people who complain about them.  Even vgChartz is now sporting its own meaningless numeric rating system with reviews.

You missed the point again.  He is not talking about video games at this point.  He is talking about things like books and plays.  Actual literature.

then y isnt this in off topic?

For the love of, it's not that complicated. We used to think that subjective things like art and literature could be objectively defined as good or bad on a scale by people who were super educated. We moved past that view of Literature and art to a more post modern subjective view of art and literature. Videogames however have gradually lapsed into this view of objective quality that can be determined by a small group of people with authority over the topic, except these people do not receive the authority to make this judgement from education, they receive the authority from fanboys that make them into authority figures despite their own disdain for them.