EDGE #310 reviews scores, Splatoon 2, Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice and more.

[Wyrdness]

Cerebralbore101 said:

Wyrdness said:

They're right though as their scaling makes sense and the industry's doesn't, 5 is bang in the middle of the scale and easy to navigate and explain while 7 doesn't make sense at all for being average as below 6/10 you have five numbers on the scale for bad. Edge is at least coherent.

1- Avoid
2- Poor
3- Mediocre
4- Below Average
5- Average
6- Above Average
7- Decent
8- Good
9- Exceptional
10- Ground Breaking

Average doesn't mean the exact middle of a set of numbers. Average is the result of adding all the number's up and then dividing the sum by the total numbers given. The average grade in a classroom isn't 50/100. The average grade in a classroom is whatever the average grade of all the students put together is.

Also Average and Decent means the same thing. Listing 5 as Average, and then 7 as Decent in a scoring scale is like listing 9 as spectacular, and 7 as awesome. Mediocre also means average. Their descriptions just don't make sense. 

Average doesn't really mean decent, average is something that isn't objectively bad but still passable while decent by definition is an okish game that can be enjoyable and respectable. Mediocre is dependent on the definition you use as it also means of not good quality.