| radiantshadow92 said: first of all, that is a ridiculous scale. They should have gone with the 5 star scale. In the 10 scale, good games range in the 7-10. Second off, if the scale is like this, then why did it get the same score as WKC....It makes no sense. |
I personally find the scale most magazines use to be ridiculous. I don't care about the score if the game gets less than 5. It's still a bad game. So why use those scores at all? Just because it's the prevailing way of doing things doesn't mean it isn't broken. The Edge way you get a bigger score difference between good games, and less between bad ones (that aren't usually reviewed anyway), which makes for better consumer advice. And that is what a review SHOULD be. Consumer advice. Currently, reviews are more like marketing, which makes me angry.
And what if the reviewers actually thought both White Knight Chronicles and Final Fantasy XIII where just average games? How would that make the scores inconsistent?
Also, your comment on the reviewer needing to think about the effort and money put in by the developer before saying negative things about the game is just so insanely wrong it's hard to put into words. No. Just no. That sort of thinking is what's wrong with the system today. You should review games based on your own experience with them, not based on what everybody else might think, and you should never give a nice review simply because the company poured money into the title.
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