| ioi said: Well maybe this comes back a little to the whole "review scores are broken" idea. A five star rating with half stars gives 10 points you can rate - that should be enough if you consider a 2.5/5 as average rather than 7/10 as average... Scores have all become too inflated these days which is why you feel like you need more points at the top end to differentiate. |
Simply because the standards are higher.
In school you would not get the grade in the middle (depending on the grading system, C in the US, 3.5 in Germany) if you have 50% correct. You are expected to do better than that.
The difference between 8.3 and 8.4 might not be big, but you can't even differentiate between 85 and 95 and that is basically the difference between GOTY and one of many great games of the year. And especially if you own a lot of games, you can easily say which one you liked more and set them in 0.1 or 0.2 steps apart.
As of now I have no idea where I should put Hitman Absolution. 4/5 seems too low to me, 4.5/5 too high.
I don't necessarily demand a 100 scale (though I would prefer that) but I think we should at least be able to rate them in 0.25 steps (out of 5).
