Onyxmeth said:
Kenryoku_Maxis said:
That's the problem I'm worried about. Certain reviewers, like Famitsu, review games as you described, as being 'the best in their genre' or 'best on their system'. While most western reviewers are taking a different approach and reviewing games based on a multiple point scale including graphics, presentation and a completely gray area of 'gameplay'. When you throw these things into a pot, most Wii/DS games get downscored next to 360/PS3 games because they don't have as good graphics and are more harshly judged in gameplay.
Putting that into a 5 point scale would be a madhouse is all I'm saying...generating a ton of 2s and 3s for DS and Wii games and a lot of 4s and 5s for 360/PS3 games. Its essentially what we have now with the difference being DS/Wii games range between 7.0-8.9 while 360/PS3 games avg between 8.0-9.5.
But who knows...maybe it could fix everything.
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I don't think that will happen at all. Look at G4's X-Play, which is the only review site I could find that actually has this system in place of single digit 1-5 scoring. Let's just take a look at the 5's for this year.
Dragon Age: Origins
GTA IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony
Ratchet and Clank Future: A Crack in Time
FIFA Soccer 10
Forza Motorsport 3
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
Halo 3: ODST
Mario and Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story
Need for Speed: Shift
IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey
Shadow Complex
Wii Sports Resort
Fight Night Round 4
Boom Blox Bash Party
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 Wii
inFamous
GTA: Chinatown Wars
Street Fighter IV
GTA: The Lost and the Damned
Killzone 2
Every platform but the PSP is represented here. To be fair, the PSP does have quite a few fours, but whatever. That's beyond the point. When you drop the worth of the 5 and you condense the scoring, you allow the review within to speak for itself as opposed to arbitrary 9.3 and 9.4 differences. To further prove my point, the only games to get 1's are shovelware, and 2 and up is reserved for games worth playing of different individual qualities. This hasn't fixed other problems that would be fixed with no scoring system, but it's a start.
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Yeah, maybe it could work. But I think on certain sites, like IGN and 1up, they'd have to get new reviewers as well, heh. Someone like Bozon would be giving every RPG and Anime game a 3 by default.
