| amp316 said: All I am saying and others are saying is that there are TOO MANY 10s being handed out these days. It just makes you say to yourself that a 10 doesn't mean what it once did. It really doesn't have anything to do with I love Nintendo or Sony or Microsoft. I'm saying that all three systems are getting scores that are too high. This is what rocketpig is saying about the reviewers being fanboys and not reviewers I believe. |
Exactly. I've played every game that received multiple 10s over the past year and frankly, I don't think a single one of them deserves that kind of score. They're all good but they lack the "wow" factor I expect from a 10 game and every single one of them had pretty significant faults. SMG had a buggy camera and it was an evolutionary step from M64, BioShock was in many ways a worse game than its predecessors, Halo 3 was too bloody short and just like Halo 2, and GTA IV was buggy as all get-out with repetitive missions.
When reviewers are handing out perfect scores to flawed games, the review system is pretty much worthless. What happens if a game like Spore flips the industry on its head with radically different gameplay and a perfect interface? Will reviewers start handing out 11s to differentiate it from the flawed games they gave 10s earlier in the year?
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