Kantor said:
Kenryoku_Maxis said:
Kantor said:
Kenryoku_Maxis said:
I have a better idea. Why not just make a review site where actual people rate the game themselves. No 'reviewer' rates the game, just people, any people who visit the page with the game, vote on the game itself. The top 5% and the bottom 5% then get thrown out (due to those people who are just trying to spam Zeroes or trying to 'fix the score') and there you go. You have a much more accurate score of what people actually think, vs one guy who probably only played the game for a few hours and may have his own bias against certain genres and series.
Throw a couple moderators and a forum on the site and it runs itself. |
Because a score without a review is equivalent to a salt shaker with no food.
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The people posting the scores could also post their own reviews. The point is, everything would be done by regular people, ideally those who had played the game. Not just by a group of 3-6 people who play every type of game for a set amount of time and then put up a 'score' based upon their own personal opinions (never having finished the game). A review is also rather pointless when you obviously haven't finished the game, which hardly anyone on review sites like IGN, 1Up or GameSpot does before they post a review.
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Got it in one. That's the issue with any user review system. 90% of the people who have played a game can't be bothered to write a review; 90% of the people who write a user review haven't played the game. Look at Metacritic's user score.
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Its pretty obvious when a user who hasn't played a game writes a review. They would get flagged and looked over by a moderator.
Really, its not complicated. If '90%' of people who write reviews haven't played the game, then I can say '90%' of those are just angry reviews that just write how 'crappy' the game is after 5 minutes of play or complain about 1 thing over and over in 2 pages of text. And those would be removed.
In short, my idea is a fan run scoring site, where they can also make their own reviews. Most sites like IGN, GameSpot, heck even gamefaqs has their own system like this. But they just don't emphasize it. What's the encentive to someone to put up their score if the only way for someone to take note of it is to open 2 seperate pages to see it? This would be the ONLY score. A fan based score.
