Fusioncode said:
A numbered score should be calculated from a combination of gameplay, graphics, story, sound, multiplayer etc. If you're ignoring all that and just assigning an arbitrary number based purely on fun then the whole score becomes meaningless. I agree with Jaywood, drop the numbers at the end and just give a thumbs up or thumbs down. |
Agreed. Scores are meant to be a representation of the product in it's entirety, not a single aspect. On an hour by hour bases i'd consider inFamous an awful lot more fun game than FF14, but while i'll probably spend 30-50 hours platinuming infamous, I've sunk over 900 hours into FF14. Which is better in that case?
It's perfectly fine to review a game simply on why you found it fun, but scoring it is meaningless. What is considered "fun" is far too obscure to be measured by static means, as everyone has a different idea of what is fun. That's why we score games based on everything that make them up, not one undefinable factor.
In a sense, scores are an average of all the traditional expectations of fun (music, gameplay, content, story, graphics etc). The review itself will tell people if a game excels in the aspects they appreciate, but the final score is a generalized view.
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