Lucca on 21 February 2019
| John2290 said: The written reviews, or at least few of them, do not match their scores in the slightest. These outlets should be dropping 5's around rather than 7's. Has it really come to this that a mediocre game is now a 7 from single reviewers? I get that an aggragate score is weighted but when you do a single review for a game you are literally trashing and give it a 7, your score looses meaning. If they all scored properly perhaps MC and OC reviews of 80 or less would not be looked upon with suspicion and 60-70's as bad games. If call the game less than mediocre with technical issues abound then score it as such with a 5 or less. 70s... FFS. |
Welcome to the current gaming review scene, where reviewers basically only use 50% of the scale and Sonic Boom, an almost unplayable game, gets a 32. Oh, and where 74% is already considered "average", when it should actually mean "good".
Like, when a game is widely panned as a terrible game, it gets a 50 or 60. That's ridiculous. Just look at Mighty No. 9. That has a 55.
I have no idea how we got to this point when the film critics seem to really use the whole scale. Maybe it's the fact that critics don't give points to films just cause the camera's recording or the audio is working. They tend to focus on filmmaking per se.
