U.S box office has its worst weekend in 15 years!

[Soundwave]

Shadow1980 said:

Soundwave said:

Eh I don't think this was ever really the case. 

Even in the early 90s when I used to read EGM, a score of "6" was dissapointing and even a 7 to 8 for a highly hyped game was considered poor depending on context. 

I can't find my old old ones (1993-ish), but my EGMs circa 1998-2000 insisted that 5 was "average." GamePro's visual rankings also seemed to suggest that a 3/5 was an "okay" and a 2.5/5 was "meh."

I remember for me, I wouldn't even rent a game if it was 6/10. That was a non-starter. "Good games" started at basically 8/10 .... maaaaaaybe 7.5 if you pushed it. Game ratings have always been like that.