EDGE needs to stop reviewing immediately! Enough is Enough!

[Twistedpixel]

kowhoho said:
I'll give some input. Let's analyze the Bayo v. GOW III situation.

For a game to receive a perfect ten, it needs to be...well, perfect. Great gameplay, great story (if it has one), great atmosphere, great graphics and sound, everything. Seeing as Bayonetta had an absolutely terrible and frankly annoying story/acting, this should set it back. It also had fretfully long load times (I've seen complaints for both versions).

Then we have God of War 3, a game with unparalleled graphical fidelity, tremendous sound, epic storytelling (however basic), intense atmosphere, over-the-top-action and gameplay that has set standards for its genre.

This is the real reason people are pissed over the scoring. If they graded both games at the same level, people wouldn't complain quite as much, but giving Bayonetta (a game which is inferior based solely on what we have seen so far) a higher score is a foolish decision.

For a game to recieve a perfect 10 what it needs is great gameplay. It is afterall a game. Games have been great without stories, with terrible graphics, will probably be great with graphics 10* more real than today, have been great with 8 bit sound and so on. The one metric which a game must be judged is gameplay, everything else comes 2nd to that. Most people don't care about graphics, sound, story and the most popular games look and sound like complete ass and have no story whatsoever.