My problem with review scores

[Jizz_Beard_thePirate]

ReimTime said:

I do understand what you mean  about the blind to the haters thing. It may be a tad inconsequential, but the blind will outnumber the haters 9/10 times, the 1/10 regarding examples such as Justin Bieber.

To the school thing: In school, you rate students by questions that they got right. In University, you mark by the bell curve based on Standard Deviation, much like a video game review is supposed to work. In Uni, you are not marked based on the questions you got right; you are marked based on how you compare to other students. For example; if 50% of the class gets an 80% on a test (and the same amount of remaining students are above and below them), they all (the 80 guys) get 50s because that is average.

I still think more variety in review scores is needed. Firstly I believe that a 70 still makes a game look like it is above average, if you just look at the number and neglect the write-up. In any other example I can think of  My last point is a little more abstract, but it allows for less deviation in review scores. For example, 50 Cent got the same range as Papo & Yo, NIER and Tales of Xillia 2.  I'd argue that the chosen 4 are needing a much larger discrepancy between them.

Hopefully that made sense I'm dying here

Well the concenses thankfully outnumber both so it shouldn't matter too much in terms of where a game should land

I am not sure what you mean by this but maybe its cause its different where I live. The way that it works where I live in both university and school is that on ur report card has a grade based on how you did throughout the year and if your final grade on ur course is above a certain %, you pass and if its below, you fail and neither really has anything to do with other students and what they get. So the institution I went to, the % of failure is 70% or below. If you write a test or anything and get below 70%, regardless of what the class average is and what other students get, it is considered a failure. But either ways, the review system wouldn't use universities or collage because they are so varied from program to program (some are 60% while others are 80% and everything inbetween) and not everyone will go to university or collage but majority will go to schools. The schools I went to all have a passing grade of 50%. If you get anything below, you fail

I think that 70 makes a game be on "you can buy it without having too many second thoughts" side and everything less is seen has "I should probably skip side." Not to say that everyone judges it like that but based on my experience, its like that

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