| coolbeans said: I can't see how that circumnavigates clickbait culture though. Whether the final tally for Horizon: Forbidden West is a 6/10 or an "Average" badge emblazoned at the bottom of the page, all types of people are going to investigate it regardless. |
Because the reviewer will have to present in their review how they came to that verdict, you can get away with given HZD2 a 7/10 and say it's not a bad game with out actually calling it average as the scaling is subjective but have a trickier time straight up calling it average as when people investigate the review it'll not only expose the outlet but in the long run it'll hurt the outlets future traffic.
| Conina said: How do you decide, which reviews are worth your time when you want some new games? Or do you read reviews of every of the thousands of games released each year? Or do you just ignore most of the games due to lack of time to read their reviews? Why is simple classification which allows only three outcomes (good, average, bad) better for a preselection than a finer classification where you can see, which games barely made it into the "good" category and which ones are much better? And it is a lot more informative, when you have 3 numbers (out of 10) for how good something is (or 30 numbers out of 100) than when you have just 1 number for how good something is. |
You should already have an idea of which outlets have views or tastes that line up with your own, tell me what exactly does this finer classification really add other than a load of cluttered numbers many of which aren't even used and a scale that is subjective to the reviewer it's not more informative in fact it's a mess look at GTA4 for example it's rated as one of the best games in history alongside games like OOT under the scoring system but many people argue it's the worst of the 3D GTA games. Three outcomes tells you what you need to know about the game with out any fussing about pointless numbers and the review's content will tell you if it's the type of game you'd be into this in the long run means anyone who wants to do reviews will have to be competent in presenting their view in why the game falls into the verdict they've given.
You're arguing how will you know well it's easy you do the same thing you do now only instead of a number the will be a straight to the point verdict with pros and cons and and small summary along the verdict.
