The Perfect Review System

[Cleary397]

TRAVIS!!! said:

Cleary397 said:
The idea of giving a numbered rating to the game is a flawed concept.

Giving your own personal opinions of the game and trying to point out the good and bad points of a game is the only way a game should be reviewed. An arbitrary number is pointless.

I agree. I actually don't think a review can be anything else, even if the reviewer thinks he/she writes an "objective", or "unbiased" review, but what's wrong about having a score that accurately reflects how much the reviewer personally likes or dislikes a game?

The problem with the number system isnt the number itself i guess,

Its the way people will skim a very detailed review and just look at the score.

Things like Metacritic are an inherently bad idea - its just collecting numbers which are completely subjective to the individual reviewer and averaging them. Its not representative of the game as a whole.