Smeags said:
I like that VGChartz bases its numbers off of a word or term that best describes the game's experience (Exemplary, Great, Decent, etc.). I do the same thing myself, as the number I assign to a game is just a placeholder to a word that best describes it. For example, here's my scoring range:
10: Masterpiece
9: Amazing
8: Great
7: Good
6: Above Average
5. Average
4. Below Average
3. Bad
2. Awful
1. Disaster (I don't think I've assigned a game a 'disaster' yet. Hopefully I'll never play a game worthy of this score.  )
Despite my more "centered" review scale (compared to the 7=average crowd), my average game rating (of over 300 games) is still a 7.8. And I want to continue to raise that score, because who really wants to play a bad (or even average) game?
So for example, I gave Skyrim an 8/10. It's a great game. It has a few things that hold it back from being an amazing game (such as glitches and lack of evolution in gameplay), but it's still a GREAT game. But, I'm sure others see that 8 as a blasphemous mark upon such a great game as Skyrim (to be honest, how the game is one of the best reviewed game of the year, and VGChartz's highest rated game ever kind of boggles my mind... but in the end that's just on me ).
In the end... this really doesn't have anything to do with the OP. Just rambling I suppose... XD
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I agree with this, my average is 7.1. If I played more games I didn't like that score would crash. I agree with you on skyrim though. :P.
But for instance Metacritic says the average game score review is 6.9 which is really high. Because thats supposed to take into account all the games that most people wouldn't play like you said.
