Review Scores?

[AngryLittleAlchemist]

Review scores are just an easy way to assess a game based off an easily observable quantifiable metric.

Review scores essentially allow you to rank a game against other games, while evaluating it on it's own merits, and show it all in one easily identifiable number.

At least, in theory it does, but I feel like in practice this rarely ever works, and it's often to the detriment of the reviewer to have them in the first place. I think distinguishing between what score to give a game based on it's own merits, and ranking it against other games you gave a score, can be nearly impossible and it's why I think sites like IGN usually are very liberal with some games and stricter with others.

I won't go into a huge spill about why I think review scores are a slippery slope, but I think they can be detrimental and also useful. I like to use scores, but I have my own scale that a lot of people don't follow. However, I don't think anyone will slight you for giving game x y score. So ... might as well? Lol