Who else doesn't give a hoot about VG Chartz game ratings?

[Riot Of The Blood]

Khuutra said:
If we did that, wouldn't the second opinion make it a communal score? At that point you're moving towards a law of averages rather than an actual, critical review.

Let m ask you guys something: you're kind of referencing categorical scores that some big sites (namely IGN) use because you think that our categories, as they are now, are unclear. Would there be any way to alleviate this problem without just adding on more categories?

I don't think of it as adding more categories. Instead, I view it as breaking the one's we have into more detailed categories. The one's we have now are extremely vague, because they try to cover too much in one category. This, however, would be easily fixed just by spliting them up into more in-depth categories. However, you guy's seem so against the idea for whatever reason. If you're going to continue and use a system that scores games based on the average score of individual categories, then I'm afraid that I don't think you can realisticly alleviate the problem without breaking the categories up and/or adding more.

You could just get rid of the sytem period and reviewers give the score based on nothing more than what they thought the game deserved, but that would be even worse.