Profcrab on 03 June 2008
Game reviewers these days cannot seem to divorce themselves from the number system. I think that few have the balls to try and succeed without them. Sites like Metacritic and Gamerankings feed this cycle where those without scores miss out on free promotion. I tend to enjoy the critiques that are done by sites that use simpler systems such as Buy/Rent/Pass at Arstechnica. Putting so much time into writing a review only to have it boiled down to a number that people will bash you for on other forums seems like such a waste of time. It should be possible to write reviews like Kotaku where you have to actually read the article to know their take on the game.
I give this thread a 9.9.
Thank god for the disable signatures option.
