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GuyDuke on 06 May 2010

I went on Nintendo Master and discovered that ONM gave Galaxy 2 the same score as the first, 97%



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Wyrdness on 06 May 2010
radiantshadow92 said:
Wyrdness said:
radiantshadow92 said:
Khuutra said:
radiantshadow92 said:
Khuutra said:

Do not judge a review on its score, but by its content. If you judge reviews based on their scores, you're basically ranking video games according to their title screens and ignoring everything else about them.

What reviewers need to realize is that they are the gaming media. The score is just as important as the written review. The score affects how the readers look at the game, and their scores are bogus most of the time. I am not ranking video games according to score, rather saying that the score is a part of the review and should be just as good. 

Scores are nont anywhere close to as important as the content of a review, that notion does not make sense.

And their scores are not bogus: they are internally consistent, consistent in method, and consistent in their criteria. They're among the best in the industry, regardless of whether or not I agree with them on a given score.

Score is not as important as content. Score is not as important as content. Score is not as important as content.

Whether you like it or not, the score is still a part of the review. So, they are not consistent at all. They gave WKC and Final Fantasy 13 a review score of 5. That makes absolutely no sense. WKC had choppy graphics, and terrible dialog. Final Fantasy 13 should of been ahead of WKC with graphics alone. I could bring way more examples, i see nothing but inconsistency. 

 

Score is a part of the content. Score is a part of the content. Score is a part of the content. 

 

 

Edge's review scores are different from how you know them from other outlets, for Edge 5/10 is average not 7/10 as it's a perfect balance in the middle of a scale of 10 (equal number of ratings for good and bad), this is why you see a lot of 7/10s and 8/10s in Edge as that's what they class as a good/great game, tripple As normally come in at 8s/9s while those that innovate to a point of being impressive with little to no flaws come in at 10. FFXIII had points docked because it was linear and had very little else to do in the whole package.

first of all, that is a ridiculous scale. They should have gone with the 5 star scale. In the 10 scale, good games range in the 7-10. Second off, if the scale is like this, then why did it get the same score as WKC....It makes no sense. 

Actually it makes more sense to have 5/10 as average then 7/10, with 7/10 you have 6 diferent ratings for bad games and 3 for good games, with Edge's system you have 5 bang in the middle and 4 ratings for both good and bad games,  this actually makes more sense and is more balanced then the system employed by everyone else as 1 is the opposite end of 10, 2 to 9, 3-8 and so on. It's not as odd as you make it out to be if anything everyone else is using an odd system.



Notorius.A.i.G on 06 May 2010

Great score ! And damn, you got me with the thread title.



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megaman79 on 06 May 2010

Looks like it will be another split best of year, even if Zelda doesn't come out in 2010.

I remember how Gears got picked over Galaxy by a few mags. Time will not be friendly on those opinions.



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Khuutra on 06 May 2010
megaman79 said:
Looks like it will be another split best of year, even if Zelda doesn't come out in 2010.

I remember how Gears got picked over Galaxy by a few mags. Time will not be friendly on those opinions.

Gears came out the year before.



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The_vagabond7 on 06 May 2010
Khuutra said:
megaman79 said:
Looks like it will be another split best of year, even if Zelda doesn't come out in 2010.

I remember how Gears got picked over Galaxy by a few mags. Time will not be friendly on those opinions.

Gears came out the year before.

Just shows how biased the media is!!!!



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Acevil on 06 May 2010
The_vagabond7 said:
Khuutra said:
megaman79 said:
Looks like it will be another split best of year, even if Zelda doesn't come out in 2010.

I remember how Gears got picked over Galaxy by a few mags. Time will not be friendly on those opinions.

Gears came out the year before.

Just shows how biased the media is!!!!


It was toss up between Galaxy, Bioshock and Portal, with Galaxy and Bioshock taking majority.



 

megaman79 on 06 May 2010

2007 im pretty sure was shared between Galaxy and Gears. For some reason i can't find the wiki page.



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amp316 on 06 May 2010

This isn't surprising.

Edge ihas been known to give 10s to everything.



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Acevil on 06 May 2010
megaman79 said:
2007 im pretty sure was shared between Galaxy and Gears. For some reason i can't find the wiki page.


Gears was 2006, and it was shared with Zelda mostly.