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sc94597 on 15 November 2009
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MontanaHatchet said:
sc94597 said:
My main problem with the review system is the 7-10 scale opposed to the 1-10 scale. I've noticed that every game that is "worth getting" is from 7-10 and everything else goes somewhere under that. Because of this way of going about things, there is only like 3 areas you can go in. 7-7.9 8-8.9 and 9-10. So things start to get clumped together and games I would rate a 9 are in the same category as games I wouldn't and vice-versa. The games aren't actually rated from 1-10.

It's really not that much different from the grading system in schools though. Anything less than a 70 in school is absolutely terrible.

Reviewing a game and a School grade is different. When you are learning something, in order for you to be at least proficient, you must know more than half of what you learned, 70% is a good measurement of that. In any recreational media, a score tells you how good something compares on a scale of 1-10, preferably. Even then, I've enjoyed many games that have gotten 70> so it really isn't saying much.

 

Some other things I have trouble with reviewers:

1. They pentalize a game for what it isn't. Not having online isn't a negative feature of a game. It is just not going above and beyond, and I'm sure anybody reading the review knows enough about the game to know the basic features it will and will not have. Also if you are going to pentalize a game for some things it doesn't have, and not for others that makes very little sense.

2. Their score is rarely a good summary of the review itself. So many reviews I read where the reviewer didn't come up with more than two minimal flaws and then give the game a 7, on this rudimentary scale let me note. If you think it deserves that score, explain it.

3 This really isn't a problem with reviewers, but gamers take their word as final. This is something that really bothers me. Just because they are getting paid for their opinion, doesn't mean they are more qualified than a regular person at determining the quality of the game, which is subjective and will never be finalized.