This was a triumph!
I'm making a note here:
"HUGE SUCCESS!!"

It's hard to overstate
my satisfaction.

You could very well be lynched if this information spreads... you better be quiet now (And me too, since I agree about OoT and Smash Brothers)

 On another note, why do you have to wait til tomorrow? Didn't you preorder online?

Picked it up last night and loved it, but I don't know about this better than OoT business :D Also working on completing Zack and Wiki, what a fun game!

About time. That #2 spot is now secure - and it has a real shot at #1. Probably only needs one more 98..100 score to make it.

So can't wait for this game!

GX was a slight disappointment for me too; still a good game but nowhere near to the greatness of X.

Anyways, I'm off playing Galaxy now

Portal Quotes, how I love them, ready for any occasion.

The reviews are so good I *might* even get Galaxy, the problem is that EVERY review assumes you have played a Mario game, they talk alot about the nostalgia element of the SMG, I can't help thinking that as I've never played a mario game ( and I haven't played any platformer in years as I'm a PC gamer) alot of it will be lost on me.

Vengi said: Portal Quotes, how I love them, ready for any occasion. The reviews are so good I *might* even get Galaxy, the problem is that EVERY review assumes you have played a Mario game, they talk alot about the nostalgia element of the SMG, I can't help thinking that as I've never played a mario game ( and I haven't played any platformer in years as I'm a PC gamer) alot of it will be lost on me.

 You should definitely at least get mario 64 on the VC.  Its relatively cheap and will be well worth it.

This is definitely possible but it would have to be one of the reviewers that is recognized by GR as a reviewer worth counting. But more than that they can't just give it a 6 or a 7. I really think the lowest score you could possibly give SMG without completely ruining your credability is an 8.5.

For instance, in statistics +/- 3 standard deviations is a standard used to discover statisitical outliers.

As you can see the 90 the game has already gotten is nearly considered a statistal outlier. Granted this doesn't mean that any score below this will be ignored by GR or MC, but it does mean that scores like 90 & 85 have to be justified very well or sites will find their strategy of tossing in a bad review to stir up traffic has backfired as nobody can possibly take them serious anymore. In the case of this first 90 I believe the reviewer justified it by using a 1 point scale...a stupid scale imo, but their methods are their methods. Changing tha one score to a 95 would change the average to a 97.73 from a 97.52, a decent increase and one that would give it the lead...but clearly we can't and shouldn't just change scores so I am not taking issue there.

PS - If you were curious adding an 85 to the list would make the 85's z-score -3.33 and do this...

yeah well it cheated, finally offering the fire flower in a 3d game just skewed everyone's viewpoint
combining an incredible that would be the best game ever on it's own merit with an item of unpresidented nostalgic value, just unfair to every game in existence
seriously that's just a new low from nintendo, they expect us to keep buying their games when all they have to offer is original experiences with top notch production values and incredible enjoyability

@Sqrl

Outliers, deviations, and statistics in general have no place on a video game forum. 

Stop teaching people things!