JazzB1987 said:
Basically 5/10 means that the game is 50% broken.
And you cant go and whine about feature X but then not about feautre Y in another review.
This has nothing to do with opinion. E.g Visuals are completely irrelevant in gaming they are an EXTRA a nice addition. Smooth framerate is not since it directly influences the way the game is played.
Yet most games with bad framerate dont get CONS for having bad framerate. But when the art style of e.g Yoshis New Island is not as good as the art style of Yoshis Island SNES its a con? WTF? (I agree its looks ugly but that that should not influence the actual score more than framerate)
We need a new review system.
With 1 part focusing on the technical aspects like sound design (can you hear where the enemy is coming from?) Framerate (Is it perfectly smooth or is the framerate killing precision?) Controls (are the controls suited for what they are supposed to do?)
Then we should have the second part focus on OPINION stuff like good/bad music. Trophies. Art style etc
We should also seperate multiplayer from single player score. COD single player s nothing like COD Multiplayer yet it gets 1 score for all of it. This makes no sense. I dont care about competitive online play so how am I supposed to know HOW much "fun" i will have with a 90% COD? I simply cannot know.
(Btw TLoU is nowhere near GOTY imo. When you focus on visuals presentation MORE than on gameplay (framerate?) you cannot be GAME of the year. Entertainment Software of the Year maybe. TLoU is the most hyped game I have ever seen. I mean seriously all the Naughty GOD (facepalm) stuff that happened because of it....
It has exceptionally good presentation etc but it says presentation>gameplay. So it automatically disqualifies itself.
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No it doesn't. Gamespot prescribes to a different review system and allocate score based on the quality experience.
http://www.gamespot.com/review-guidelines/
Under their system, a game given a 5/10 is a mediocre experience. That's what they judge the game to be. Gamespot and other sites are well entitled to follow their own system and review games what fits them and their readers best.
Gamespot and other large media always provide their Review Guidelines, it is up to the reader to understant what the number means.What you are doing is interpreting the number to fit your beliefs and standards.
