On a ten point review scale, what number should represent an average game?

[Mnementh]

VGPolyglot said:

Mnementh said:

Yeah, but ignoring 10 is taking away one option, so you end up with a 9 point scale. It just makes no sense.

It's like a sports team, the max number of wins an NBA team can have is 82 in theory, but in practice it's never happened.

But that's not a rating. In Ice Skating the max-score is something a judge can hand out. A game review is not that the game runs against a number of tests and gets a score according to the results. It's the opinion of the reviewer. And therefore one in ten games should get a ten (maybe even less, but whatever). A ten-score just says the game is better than 90% of the other games.