It depends for me. I rate 2d side scrollers completely different from say an rpg game or first person shooter. I might give a good 2d side scroller game a 9 because it’s a great game in its genre. I might give COD an 8. Do I think the 2d side scroller is a better game than COD, of course not. But that COD may not be my favorite of numerous great first person shooters and other reasons etc.

6 or 5.5, because most reviewers rate on a 1-10 scale.

If it were a 0-10 scale, then 5.

5 for me as well, should be used more frequently, like, a lot more.

Why the indie game should be automatically be docked numbers? Sure, a crappy indie game should get a 0, but the terrible AAA game should also get a 0. Big budget doesn't magically make a better game. And actually many AAA-stuff is boring and uninventive. A boring game shouldn't get good scores, because a cutscene looked pretty or so.

If you put an entry with no game should be here, you really have a 0-9 scale. And then people like you say: as a 9 is perfect nobody ever should use it and you get a 0-8 scale. And repeat.

Not really. 10/10 is 100%. 9/10 is not 100%, so saying that 90% is perfect makes no sense.

It's the same logic as putting an 11 on amps (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_to_eleven ). If you change the scale, that doesn't really change anything, only redistributes the entry on the new scale. If you say 10 i snot used, you really have a 0-9 scale, which means 9 is 100%.

That 11 on the amps was a Spinal Tap joke, it wasn't meant to be taken seriously.

To all those who voted 5....So if you write a test in school and you get half the questions wrong, you should still get a C in your opinion?!

I prefer the "grade" rating with average being C- and C. This would translate to a 6.7 to 7.5.