Ok, well I wrote this myself so if it sucks I take the blame =P
10) Because you are a smart person and can form your own opinions without someone else summarizing it for you.
9) Because you are also a lazy person and will let that score dominate your opinion if you look at it!
8) Because its not objective but subjective, which basically means that its an arbitrary score and only has value to the person who set the score. Which is why YOU should score it yourself.
7) Because the reviewer may have been French and rumor has it that they used to judge couple's ice skating in the Olympics.
6) Because different game styles don't always translate to a number system properly.
5) Because you have no way of knowing what kinds of personal bias or preferences are being expressed in a number but you can usually pick them out in a written review when someone complains about something you enjoy about the game!
4) Because a single numeric value cannot properly explain the rediculous number of nuances in a game. A well written review with no score conveys the quality, style, and appeal of the game and allows you to score it yourself with the only bias that matters...yours!
3) A score is meaningless without context. A FPS fan considers the perfect game something completely different from a JRPG or Platform fan and reading the review is the only way to know that the gameplay elements YOU love have been done right.
2) Becuase if you are interested enough in the game to look up a review score you should be able to spend five minutes reading the review to make sure YOU like it.
1) Because people are tired of hearing you bitch about review scores!
So for an ironic twist, what score do you give my top 10 list?
edit: changed the order a bit =P
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