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Hisiru on 24 November 2009
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Kenryoku_Maxis said:
Wiped said:
Kenryoku_Maxis said:
Wiped said:

I'll only say this once:

10/10 DOES NOT MEAN THE GAME IS 'PERFECT'. IT MEANS IT IS AN EXCELLENT, EXTRAORDINARY GAME.

 

Geez.

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*.

That would be all fine and dandy if that was the way it has always been.  But as people have already pointed out, Famitsu went multiple years (almost 20) hardly giving out any 40/40 scores (about 5 I think).  Now suddenly there's a bunch in one generation?  Sure, if they want to change the way they review games that's fine, but its not like we're all crazy for questioning it since before they were so strict.

And please, American reviewers never took that policy of multiple games being able to get top marks and being on 'equal status'.  Heck, no game last gen even got a perfect score by the major sites (except something like Tony Hawk Pro 3 on gamespot).  The reviewers purposefully kept all their reviews lower.  Now suddenly this gen, we're seeing a clear increase in scores, with games getting many more 9.5s and 9.8s all the time.  Scores previously only reserved for a handful of games last gen deemed 'the best'.  So now games like Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords are on equal status to Ico and Okami?  And I hope I don't need to go into games like MGS4 and GTAIV getting perfect scores, when even many fans argue about them being the best in their series (let alone some of the greatest games ever made).

All these reviews seem to be leaning towards an increase in scoring due to hype.  And 2 games getting a perfect score due to hype (or possibly graphics or their genre) doesn't show any 'equality' in the ratings system.  In fact, it shows the ratings getting more broken.

Do you think that Famitsu should wait 3 years to give a new 40/40 or should Famitsu give it if the game deserves? 

Why in your mind it have to take so long for the developers to make a game that deserves 40/40 on Famitsu this generation? Why it HAVE to take so long? Are the developers incapable of make a lot of excellent games that deserves 40/40?

And I will ask you again, If you disagrees with Famitsu, tell me what is missing in NSMB Wii as a platformer, tell me what is missing in Nintendogs as a pet simulator, tell me what is missing in Dragon Quest IX as a portable RPG with multiplayer for the DS.