Game database reviews - how should we do it?

[kn]

Kasz216 said:

kn said:

Kasz216 said:

kn said:
Here's an idea that I guarantee no-one else is doing and would draw traffic here in a heartbeat... copyrightable even...

Grab the individual reviews from the top 10 or 15 magazines from around the globe... average them up to a 10 or 100 or whatever number you want. Provide each review in a list as an individual contributor to the total composite you are coming up with in the total. So, say for example you use 10 magazines for Halo 3 and you get a spread of 8.9 to 10. with an average of 9.3.... That's standard fare... but THEN....

Compare each magazine to the composite -- under/over percentage. I.e. IGN +10% over composite. Play Magazine -12% under composite. But wait, there's more...

Also add console specifics... This is a 360 game... Keep a running log of the over/under per game and per platform and keep a running average that also appears with the review.... It would look something like this:

Halo 3 (360)composite score from 10 sources (this could be less if all mags don't cover)
Composite score: 93
O/U Consoles
Magazine Score O/U Composite 360 PS3 Wii
Mag 1 97 +5% +9% -11% -17%
Mag 2 93 - -1% +7% -11%

How cool would that be?

This would be called, in my honor, of course, the KNRanking System, lol. Or, you could just steal the idea and I'll let you slide.

Isn't that basically what Gamerankings does with their "Lots-of-Statistics" Site Stats?

Maybe that's a feature I can't find on the website, but I'm not seeing a deviation from the average nor am I seeing a "bias tendency" or whatever you would like to call it....

Maybe i'm not understanding what you mean right. Here go to "Gamerankings.com"

Then click, on the left side in the blue menu under "Statistics" "Lots-A-Stats"

Then go to "Site Stats"

Then click on say. Play Magazine. (Or rather i'll just post a link to that, though that's how you get there.)

http://www.gamerankings.com/itemrankings/sitedetails.asp?siteid=736

Here you see Play Magazine tends to average all games 4.9% higher then the combined review averages on Gamerankings.

Now if you Click PS3

http://www.gamerankings.com/itemrankings/SiteDetails.asp?platformid=1028

You can see the average PS3 game is ranked 6.4% higher in Play Magazine then the other sites used in gamerankings.

 Color me informed.  That's basically what I'm talking about but I've not seen that on Gamerankings before.  I definitely don't like how far you have to dig and it doesn't seem obvious at a glance.  I guess my version would provide that data without having to drill so deep and basically show it all on one summary page for the game...  Thanks for posting the link, though.  Neat stuff.