MDMAlliance on 15 February 2015
| DerpSandwich said: This thread is the EXACT reason why people are starting to ditch review scores. Nitpicking the numbers is a horrible waste of time. When they assign that number they're not listing every last thing that took points away. Even a game with no flaws still won't always be a 10 because it's judged by its overall fun level, which is subjective. They could have listed no faults at all and still given it that score and it would have been fine. Seriously, people. Stop. These kinds of score squabbles are the reason I left IGN in the first place. |
I personally think scores still have a place in reviews, just not in the form of numbers or grading (e.g. A, A+, B-). I think how GameXplain does it is better, since it's a lot more clear than a "5" or an "8," which can be hard or impossible to decipher what it really means. I think a lot of people want/need something that wraps up the entire review that tells the reader how, exactly, the reviewer felt about playing the game as a whole.
edit: I am aware that you probably meant what I said by "review scores." I just wanted to clear it up.
