| TheThunder said: If GTAIV's and MGS4 10/10 wasn't bad and bullshit enough they go and give R2 9.5 |
I somehow forgot about those. Those are pretty bad too.
| reptile168 said
just because they haven't scored PS3's biggest games with a 10 doesn't mean you shouldn't take them seriously. 360's biggest games had "average" 9.5 scores also. |
Uh, that's exacly the problem. They hand out 9.5's like candy. PS3's biggest games don't deserve a 10. I can't really think of any game that does.
Reviewers like IGN are breaking the basic 1/10 scoring system. It seems that 8.8-9.5 is the new average. When a good game finally does come along, there's barely enough room to score it higher, and this becomes obvious when you get reviewers that bust out with "hurr hurr, we'd give it an 11/10 if we could!."
The problem then is that other reviewers have to go along with it. If a reviewer was to give something like Halo3/ MGS4 an 8 because they felt that an 8 represents an extremely amazing AAA-quality game, all the fanboys would jump on them in an instant and accuse the site of doing it for hits.
