GamePro and Games Radar give perfect score to Assassin's Creed

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The_vagabond7 said:
To put this into perspective, If it wasn't for the reviewers doling out the occasional 7.5 or 8, gamerankings and metacritics top 10s would be almost entirely dominated by this years games. That would mean that this year in gaming has seen more quality than the past two decades combined.

Bioshock was great, but it was no mind blowing revolution. COD4 looks beautiful but after playing it, it doesn't seem like anything else other than a good FPS with high production quality, Halo 3 is just the third Halo, it didn't change the face of gaming at all, The orange box is 5 games in one, it's a bargain, but is it gaming beyond what we have ever seen? Or is it just 5 really good games. I could go on. I'm not knocking the above games, they are all great games, but reviewers are just tossing out 10s to anything that has either hype, graphics, or production values.

It's been a good year, but certainly not better than the past two decades of gaming put together. Can anybody honestly say that in the past twenty some years of gaming, that there hasn't been as many incredible ground breaking games as this year alone?

 Video games have severe ratings inflation. If a game is decent, it gets something in the 7s or 8s. If it's bad it gets a score in the 5s or 6s. Lower scores are reserved for atrocities. Good games fight it out for fractions of a point in the 9s.

 I'll confess that I'm part of the problem. Like pretty much everyone else, I always feel like the games I like deserve to get the best ratings. We're all inclined to believe that it's some sort of conspiracy against the things we like whenever a game gets a rating that's half a point less than what we feel is it's true value.