coolbeans said:
Yea I like metacritic more than gamerankings, since they normally have more reviews about a game than gamerankings does. |
That's not what I meant. What I meant to say is that Gamerankings is a compilations of reviews written by gamers for gamers. While that's fine and dandy in itself, the numeric system of assigning a game a score out of 5, 10, etc. is not the best way to judge a game's quality. Opinions are opinions are opinions and that doesn't mean that everyone's opinion can be grouped in a fashion that can accurately depict a game's quality via a number.
What might be a fault to one person might very well be a plus in another person's perception. One man's trash is another man's treasure if you will. It's because every reviewer has his or her own tastes that are not necessarily congruent with their readers that make +85% on Gamerankings so meaningless.
In short, reviews are written for gamers but numbers aren't the best way to go about rating a game because it's only reflective of the reviewer's tastes and not the reader/other gamer.
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