The Critic's Plight

[Runa216]

vlad321 said:

Maybe you missed the part that clearly stated "it's not about matching up with MY tastes." It was a fairly important part of my post which invalidated half of your current one. Unless you meant to imply that the math/statistics are my opinion... which... ROFL did you just try to imply statistics are subjective?

I also particularly enjoy your "speaking to the audience part," is that spposed to be a euphemism for stroking the faonboys' epeen to get on their good side?

You also don't seem to get it, the Normal Distribution is all ABOUT different tastes. That's the ENTIRE point of it. Where at 50 you will find games where the most people think are better than half, worse than half. If I am to pick ANY game at random and do it multiple times, I should end up with an average of 50, not 80 (because, obviously, I would end up with many bad ones, a many good ones, and a hell of a lot of average ones). Basically, any scale that is used for comparisons can be modeled after the the normal distribution. If you somehow still think that this is all subjective, I need to know. It's much better to argue with a wall than someone who thinks the definitions of statistics are subjective.

Edit: Oh btw, the system I mentioned about the stars, all that does is normalize the scores, the whole meaning behind them is still very much left behind and all it really means is that things are just shifted to reflect a PROPER distribution.

I am honestly having a hell of a time taking you seriously, since almost everything you said has almost nothing to do with what I said, or you're making wild accusations and extrapolations based on what I said to assume other things that fit your perception.  

The only difference between the method you're suggesting and the one we have is t he number value assigned to a 'mediocre' or 'average' game.  While that works perfectly in real math, changing things now is just not viable.  What we have works just fine if you look at it from the "what percent of the game is good/done right" angle.  The only difference is one's average hovers around 50 and the other around 75.  It's all semantics.  it's irrelevant.