Kenryoku_Maxis said:
But I'll repeat what many people have said in this thread. When you max out a score for a game, be it 10/10, 10.0 or 40/40, you're saying its the best out of its genre for this gen. And if any game that comes out after it is better, there's no score left to give it above a 10. What else are you going to classify it than perfect? 'Near' perfect? 'The best game of the gen..along with the other 10s?' It just points out even more that the scoring systems and reviews are flawed. This is why a lot of people called BS with the score for GTAIV. And why people keep questioning all these 40/40 scores from Famitsu, which are happening quite often now. |
I'm not sure whether to laugh or cry. No it doesn't! It simply doesn't. If you think this, then you don't understand the review system.
If a music magazine gives 5 stars to a pop album, does that mean it can't give out another 5 stars to another pop album that year? No. A 10/10 or a 40/40 (which is just four people giving 10/10) means that it is the highest commendation that the magazine or website can give the game. It is top marks, A+. It is a reflection of how much they value, respect and rate the game. It simply places the game in an elite tier of top-marked games that few can match. It DOESNT mean no other game can also get 10/10 that genre, or that gen, or both. A 10/10, for example, to GT5, would be ENTIRELY seperate and in no way related to a 10/10 for Forza 3 or PGR5.
The review scale, though it doesnt always seem like it, goes from 1-10. 10 is the best possible score, but it doesn't signify perfection, it's simply the highest reccommendation. Some 10/10s are better than others- there has to be an end to the scale. Most of all, though, the number is an indicator only - it's the words that count.
*sighs*.
