Explain how you rate games and your reasoning behind the scoring.

[Conina]

LegitHyperbole said:

100% or 100 point scale? A scale of 1 to 10? Five stars? Tier from F to S? What does your system mean for you? I'm particularly interested in how people use a 100 point scale to conclude at a score like 89 out of 100 instead of rounding to a 9.

I use a scale of 1 to 10.

1. Absolutely broken or unplayable
2. Extremly bad in most aspects 
3. Bad in most aspects
4. Poor
5. Average/Bland
6. Average/poor with fun and excels is some aspects
7. Good and plenty of fun
8. Great in most aspects with loads of fun
9. Phenomenal in most aspects with immense fun
10. Masterpiece and immensely addicting

I also use that scale of 1 to 10 for the games I played and movies & TV-shows I watched.

But since I try not to waste my time with average and bad games/movies/tv-shows, most of my personal ratings are in the area of 6 to 10.

They are also depending on my mood when I played or watched them... so an 8 could be either a 7 or a 9 on a different day.

The 100% scale makes the most sense to me to show a rating-average of several persons/opinions (the more the better), so the cumulative ratings on MetaCritic (1 - 100) and IMDB (0.1 to 10.0) are fine for me.

Here is a chart of my game ratings over time (by release year):

And here is a chart of my movie / tv series ratings over time (by release year):

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