The Critic's Plight

[vlad321]

Runa216 said:

vlad321 said:

Wow.... I was bored so I did the graph myself, it's a lot owrse than I thought it was. I don't even think I should have said "Practice what you preach" and outright called you a liar, because this is what the graph looks like:

 

Reviewers get absolutely no sympathy from me, only piss and vinegar when they cause shit like that to happen (btw those spikes are around the even 10s and 5s). Oh pelase tell me you also see the problem with this graph.

Edit: Basically a 80 is actually a 55 or so, an 90 is around a 75, and so on and so forth.

Dude, you're taking this entirely too seriously.  

First of all, this isn't professional mathematics, so your law of averages doesn't really apply.  This is videogame review and values need to in some way coincide with public ideals/opinions.

Secondly, My method works pretty muich perfectly for what needs to be done.  It indicates a game's overall quality based on how perfect it is.  a game that gets a 50 is half good, half bad.  a game that gets 80 is mostly good with some bad.  a game that gets 100 is flawless.  a game that gets 20 has a thing or two that's good but is almost all bad.  This works the same way as test scores, a student who gets 50% of the answers right gets 50% on the test.  this isn't about bellcurves or averages, that's irrelevant.  The 'average' is determined from what the test subjects get.  sometimnes the average is 65, other times it's 80 or more.  If most games are getting 80s, I'm happy!  

Thirdly, you're mixing apples and oranges.  hell, you may even be comparing apples to carrots, and you;re pretty much going out on a limb claiming that since MY methods and values don't match yours, or that they don't have perfect math to back them up, that its somehow inherently wrong.  This is plain false.  

LAstly for now, you're also coming across as remarkably hostile and callous.  It's rather rude to say some of the things you are based on "baww, you don't agree with me, I have no sympathy for you bawww".  You need to calm down. youre taking entirely too much time on this issue, assuming absolutes and judging based on that.  IT won't get you anywhere. 

And this is coming from someone who wrote a page or more complaining about this?

Firstly, the law of areages very much applies here, BECAUSE it applies to people's ideals and tastes. In fact, that's the WHOLE point of the normal distribution. There is an average among people's ideals and that average can be normalized to be 50. So either call the 80 a 50, or admit that the reviews here are laughably broken.

Secondly, then you are reviewing wrong. A game that gets a 50 should be better than half the games, and worse than the other half. The scores exist to compare games to one another. The writing part is hwere you explain what works and doesn't.

Thirdly, it's not about matching up with MY tastes, it's about YOUR ability to tell good from bad (even if you aren't a fan of someting) and about having the integrity to give a game that's better than half, worse than the other half a 50. Not an 80 to placate crying idiot fanboys who are too dumb and got hyped by some game's marketing team.

P.S. I'm not trying to be hostile, I'm just pointing out how things stand.