TWRoO on 04 November 2009
| Lostplanet22 said: Dropping a scoring system could also be very negative. A lot of gamers get interested in a game if they see that it is getting high scores. Something we saw with the last Need for speed game. Saw a lot of comments (not especially on VGCHARTZ) that people were not interesting in the game because the one before Shift sucked but when Shift got some scores and quite high people got interested in it. |
But if reviews in general didn't have scores it would encurage those people to actually read some reviews themselves rather than trust a random number that someone else has associated with their liking of the game.
And those that are not encouraged to read about games would end up picking games up based on word-of mouth like people used to do anyhow.... which certainly isn't a bad thing as it would cut down all that 1st week hype crap where people buy games basically because they recieved a few 90+ scores a couple of weeks before release.
