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Veknoid_Outcast on 30 October 2013
the_dengle said:
mushroomboy5 said:
the_dengle said:

0 got a laugh out of me. Not sure why you (like many others) are so averse to giving a game a "10." I don't know of any significant film critics who refuse to give any movie a four-star rating on principal that it's not absolutely perfect in every way. I guess if you're using decimals you could theoretically get up to 9.9, but then why not just treat "10" like an asymptote, with an example game's score being capable of being arbitrarily close to 10 (9.99999999) such that you may as well round up?

I would think that if someone wanted to banish the high-end extreme altogether, they would do the same for the low-end. I guess you probably won't be reviewing any EA games, though, so you'll never use the 0, either. I suppose that's fair then.

In most cases the 4 stars are out of a 5 star rating system (well...most of the systems I've ever seen anyway) , so 4 stars ISN'T a perfect score.

The 4-star scale is the gold standard for film reviews, at least in the US.

Yeah, four-star scale is the way to go. I've actually started using it for my game reviews too and I find myself liking it a lot more than 100-point or ten-point with half-point intervals, which is what I used previously.



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the_dengle on 30 October 2013
Veknoid_Outcast said:

Yeah, four-star scale is the way to go. I've actually started using it for my game reviews too and I find myself liking it a lot more than 100-point or ten-point with half-point intervals, which is what I used previously.

That's because 3 stars is regarded as a great review, when its literal translation to a 10-point scale (7.5) doesn't sound so hot to a lot of people.

Same with 2 stars being "meh" while a 5/10 is perceived as a horrible score.



green_sky on 30 October 2013
Slimebeast said:
green_sky said:
Slimebeast said:
Have you made a reviewed an HD game? Do you own a HD console yet or a stron PC?

Joking?

No, by HD I meant PS360. "HD" is a term used in current gen, a term that is becoming oldfashioned, it doesn't mean Wii U and PS4 and Xbone I think.

HD is HD. I disagree but okay. 



DanneSandin on 11 November 2013

Gotta tag this. Am eagerly awaiting more biased reviews.



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Player2 on 26 November 2013

I can't wait for the biased Smash review.



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wfz on 26 November 2013

Earthbound 7.3 what the fuck.



DanneSandin on 04 August 2014
spurgeonryan said:
Thread rules. Post here.

Where is MK8 review?

Yeeeaaah! Where is that review? I THINK I read it but aint sure



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DanneSandin on 17 September 2014

So, you need to update that list of reviewed games. No ALTTP? Shame on you ;) Anyways, I REALLY wanna see a review of the original Zelda! I guess you're planning to review it for when Zelda U is coming out?



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DanneSandin on 09 November 2014
RolStoppable said:
DanneSandin said:
So, you need to update that list of reviewed games. No ALTTP? Shame on you ;) Anyways, I REALLY wanna see a review of the original Zelda! I guess you're planning to review it for when Zelda U is coming out?

There was actually a bunch of games missing since the last update, but now everything should be there. 45 reviewed games so far.

I had no plans to review the original The Legend of Zelda, but since it's available on both the 3DS and Wii U (the only systems I write reviews for), there's really nothing speaking against it. Especially because I can write it mostly from memory and don't have to play through the game again in order to review it properly.

It would actually be quite interesting to read that review and how it staks up to all the sequels



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DanneSandin on 07 January 2015

I see you haven't reviewed Luigi's Mansion yet... I'm a little disappointed by it so far, mostly because the controls are quite awkward and Luigi is quite clunky to control...



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