| Reasonable said: Of course, even with guidelines it's open to interpretation, but for me to be a 5 or less a game has to have actual technical plus gameplay issues. For a game that seems on the evidence to be as well coded, etc. as FFXIII is to get a 5 is very puzzling to me. I guess it depends how you bring technical competence into the mix (as a programmer of old it's important for me). For me if the game works without bugs is technically competent, etc. then it's a 5. if it's decent for it's genre it's a 7. 5 is very low for a title as polished as FFXIII and that's what I'm surprised by as for me it means that - in the view of this site - the game has serious gameplay issues. Mind you, I'm not saying it DOES have such issues, merely that's the reading I'd take from the EDGE review and score.
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I'm not saying it has issues either. But I cannot in any way agree with you that a game needs to have technical issues to get a 5 or below. In my ears, that just sounds like madness. A game could have technical issues up over it's ears and still get a 9 or 10, or it could have no technical issues at all and recieve a 1. I'm not saying technical issues should not, or does not, affect the score. I'm saying that no score should ever imply or mean a game has them.
And EDGE works differently from how you do, obviously. For them, 5 really means a game that is decent for its genre. But this point has been debated for so long I feel almost silly for bringing it up.
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