So does cubed3 thinks rounding 9.9 equals 9, or did they adjust the review?

[LordTheNightKnight]

TheRealMafoo said:

LordTheNightKnight said:

twesterm said:

LordTheNightKnight said:

DKII said:
They cut off all decimals, everything was rounded down, not just OoT.

Then there is a problem. This has nothing to do with the reviews. It has to do with screwing with the math. Rounding is not down or up by your choice.

Actually it is their choice.

 

No. The laws of math don't work that way. If they actually decided that every review was lower than they thought, then okay. If they were just deciding to blanket adjust, based on the numbers, and not their reviews of the games, they are fudging the numbers.

If they had originally decided OoT was close, but no 10, as other suggested, that would not be an issue, but every game with a decimal above 5 are close, but not those numbers? That is just wrong. That is just hacking off the second numbers. That isn't real adjustment, that is being lazy.

Well, if you followed real rounding, you would have to give every game that had a 9.5, a 10. And 9.5 games are not 10 games. Ok, so you don't do that, then what do you do? Re-review every game? give 9.9 games 10, and 9.8 games 9? If you do that, it's no better, as it's just some arbitrary thing like what they did.

If the site has a policy of "no 10s unless it's a 10", then they can do that. Yet is that clearly stated? And did they just do that for the 95-99 games, or all other games? If they did it for others, then it's being lazy. A 17 game rounds up to a 2, not rounds down to a 1.

I could see the owner of that site thinking "Well, I would rather everyone play the games we reviews, and think they are better then then review, then think they are worse. Let's just lower the score's of all games, and error on the side of caution".

Again, you don't just round down all of them. This is not about the reviews. It's about the math. If they feel some games don't work, then they should state they are adjusting those games, not just hacking off numbers.

Why does that bother you? If you are letting GTAIV motivate you to post this, you need to review your priorities in life my friend :)

God, the old fanboy assunmption fallacy. I'm almost tempeted to flip you off for "deciding" my motivation for this, but I will not since I'm not going to be rude here.

This is based on the objective numbers, and the objective laws which they are run. Just because you think there is bias driving that only proves you think there is bias, not that there actually is.

EDIT: I take back the flipping off comment. I was letting my emotions get a little out of hand, even just a little.