[Satire] Jim Sterling Gives Mario Odyssey A.......... 7!

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Farsala said:

Bristow9091 said:

Bingo. I've gone over this before, that on a scale of 1-10, 5 should be average, yet when a game gets anything less than an 8, people complain, lol. If I were to ever do reviews, that's how I'd do it.

Is it not based on the grading scale though? 5 is failing, 6 is barely passed or basically failing, 7 is below average, 8 is above average, 9 is good, 10 is great.

Not for other forms of media. If a reviewer gives a movie 3/5 it's good or at least pretty good. The same score for a game is considered trash. A rating system is different than a school grade. A 5/10 or 2.5/5 is in the middle of horrible and amazing thus ok. Why would there be 6 numbers to describe bad, 2 to describe ok, and 2 for good.

It's not

1 bad, 2 bad, 3 bad, 4 bad, 5 bad, 6 bad, 7 below average, 8 kinda good, 9 very good, 10 perfect 

its stupid because a lot of reviewers use a star system with 5 stars. When they give a game 3 they mean pretty good then it gets translated on meta to a 6 and people think it's a bad score. I mean just go out and read a 3 star review or a 7/10 review. The reviewer usually likes the game but public always seam to think of them as bad scores. 

 

Just go imdb and look at movie scores. A movie with a 7.5 is considered to be quite good not average.