IGN gives Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire a 7.8 because of too much water.....

[binary solo]

mZuzek said:

binary solo said:
And what the eff is wrong with a 7.8 score? Gaddamit! Every time people talk about how reviewers are too generous with scores, next minute there's a thread that wants to burn a reviewer at the stake because they gave their favourite game a score in the high 7s. For fuck's sake! Bitch about reviewers that give games actual bad scores (like below 6) for trivial or minor points.

The problem is that the reasoning is really weak to give it a 7.8. Still, it's a decent score.
Unlike that time when GameSpot gave my personal GOTY a 6...

But how do you know the "water" thing wasn't just knocking the game down from an 8 to a 7.8. If the feature is annoying enough to the reviewer then the reason is valid. You might think the reason is weak, but if the reviewer offers a reasonable explanation for the things they don't like then that's all we should ask of them. We should not be asking them to only emphasis the things we see as legitimate strengths and weaknesses of a game for the purposes of marking up or down the score of a game.