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JWeinCom on 01 March 2014
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Carl2291 said:
JWeinCom said:

If you want to be literal like that, what does 99% mean?  That the game was 1% away from perfect?  That if it had 1% better voice acting it would be perfect?  That you mechanically and scientifically measured the game in comparison to what a perfect game would be and found that it fell a mere 1% short?  Is a game that scores 50% halfway to perfection?  Was a game like Amy 40% or the way towards perfection?

Reviews are not a perfect science.  They are subjective and imprecise by definition and they only have meaning in the context of other games.  Don't take them so literally.  

That being said, Mega Man 2, Super Mario Galaxy, and Smash Bros Brawl were 100/100 for me.


I just think there is no game that can be defined as perfect. 100/100 means that there is no room at all for improvement, yet it gets thrown around and stuck on so many games that can quite clearly be improved in some way, shape or form.

Maybe Im being picky.


If that's your opinion, that's fine, but I don't believe that's how reviews work.  I don't think it's possible to measure the objective quality of a game that precisely.  I think reviews don't show how good a game is compared to perfection, but how good a game is compared to the rest of the games on the market.  To me, 100 means "I enjoyed this game as much or more than any other game I've ever played".