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Gilgamesh on 28 March 2009
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Sqrl said:
Gilgamesh said:

The reviews are wrote very well and the reviewers do an excellent job at it. The only problem I have is the scoring method. "Value" always seems to drive down the score of a great game. They don't have to have a good replay value to be a AAA game.

I like how IGN scores there games. You got your Presentation, Graphics, Sound, Gameplay and Lasting Appeal, it covers everthing, I'm not saying VG Chartz should copy them, but I'm just saying I like how they score there games.

VG Chartz has just three categories to rate a game, I just think we need more so the scoring is more fair, like adding Graphics and Sound would be nice. I know that's all included in Presentation, but I think it should be seperate.

(Again the reviewer's do an excellent job at reviewing a game, and I'd never be able to be as good as them at reviewing, but it's just the scoring that bothers me.)

 

Value isn't just replay value though, it's also the overall experience or bang for buck.  If a game doesn't have replayability it should definitely have a long story and be a great overall experience to be "AAA" (whatever that means) wouldn't you say?

I suppose your right, but don't you think there should be more categories to score a game with, three just seems very iffy, and if one of the three is very low then it's going to drive the score down by quite a bit because it's only three categories, wouldn't it be better to have more like having Graphics annd Sound seperate? (Like I said before I know it's all included in Presentation but it'd be nice to see it seperate because those are one of the main categories I look at, sound and graphics are very important to me in a game, especially sound)

It's just that a game like ICO which everyone that plays it considers it a masterpiece, and I'm sure it doesn't have a very good replay value, but a 6.5, I'm not saying Torillian is wrong for putting that, it's just if there were more categories it might of brought it to a more reasonable score (anything over 9 for sure).