Jranation said:
Right! People are reacting as if 7 and 8 are bad scores. |
Just wanted to clarify something. I don't think 8 is a bad score. I remember in 2008 Eurogamer started giving 8's to games like MGS4 and the like. At first I thought Eurogamer was a bad site, but eventually I learned that 8 from them is a good score. Same goes for Giantbomb with their 5 star scale. A 3 from them is a good score. Back then it seemed that anything below 85 on MC was a not so great score for a game to have. But these days, I'll risk even getting a game at 77 or 78. That's because more and more sites started using 8 for more games over the years. So back in 2008 a MC Score of 85 held the same clout as a MC Score of 80 does today IMO. Maybe in a few years a 75 will hold that same level of clout and the truly bad games will be in the 50's.
But anyway, it's not the 8/10 from Edge that bothers me. It's that they are saying that Sea of Thieves is better than Far Cry 5. If Edge was a good publication that just so happened to use more of the scale, they would have given SoT a 5/10 at best, or even a 4/10. It's obviously an unfinished game. Meanwhile Far Cry 5, while not being revolutionary is still a solid title in the series. On the flip side Arms in no way shape or form deserves a 9/10 from them, but there we go.
TL/DR Edge is a bad publication, not because they use the full scale, but because they rate bad games highly, and rate excellent games poorly. Normally 8/10 from any publication means that game is a must own title.
