Since it's cubed3.com that screwed up the review, and not gamerankings.com, let't look at what happened. That site apparently decided to switch to a 10 point system instead of 100 point. Okay, not a problem.

So since Ocarina of Time got a 99 score, it would have to be adjusted. However, laws of mathematics clearly state that when rounding, anything from 5 or higher is rounded up. Therefore, since the review was so close to 10, the review should have been adjusted to 10, not 9.

The key here would be if they had actually reconsidered the review. If they had looked at it and decided it was just a 9 game, and not a 10 game, that wouldn't be a problem. If it was just adjusting the numbers, that is a problem. Math isn't a negotiable system, at least not if you are just working with raw numbers, which is what they were doing.

So should we ask cubed3 what it was they did?

I really don't care about this .9 vs .87 or whatever at Gamerankings, I just don't get why cubed3 are making this change retro-active. Seems like a lot of work for no real reason. Gamespot and 1UP have changed thier review set-ups somewhat recently and they didn't go back and rescore every damn game they reviewed. Just seems kind silly. =P

a 9.9 in a lot of reviewers eyes, is more then .1 less then a 10. my guess, is the reason they gave it a 9.9 in the first place was because they wanted to give it the best score that's not a 10.

They changed there ranking system, and it still has the best score that's not a 10.

Question though: Why do you care?

what do you expect me to write to them?

Dear cubed3:

Due to your recent adjustment of an 10 yr old+ game, my fanboyism is screaming in rage as my favourite game is no longer top of the list. You have officially taken away my only reason for existence.

Please give OoT more scores or I won't read your reviews anymore?

P.S. I don't read your review anyway, I just care about the numerical scores.

Somehow I don't think you were being that angry when all those other games get downscaled.  

As long as they round all the reviews down does it really matter?

Whatever the case, I do think it's kind of silly they went back and changed all their scores but as long as they rounded them all down oh well. 

lol, fans in heat over totally arbitrary numbers is really fun to watch.

I can't put words in his mouth about why he cares but I'll add my opinion where it wasn't asked for.  I haven't played Ocarina nor do I care to.  I'm not a Zelda fan to begin with so it is pointless.  I do hate one thing in life with a passion, though -- and that is revisionist history.  If the game scored a 9.9, it should be a 10 in their new system.  If this were happening to GTAIV instead of Ocarina, the internet blogs would be ablaze with accusations of bias, payoff, fanboyisms, etc.

They cut off all decimals, everything was rounded down, not just OoT.

It wasn't a 10 for them then, why should it be a 10 now? I am sure the reviewer thought to himself "Wow, this game is perfect, other then this one thing I must ding it for".

That one thing is still there, so he would still ding the game for it, and give it the best score posable that's does not mean "perfect".

I don't care where games rank, but if you want to be fair about it all, giving it a 9 if you are on a whole point system, seems to better reperasent what the origonal reviewer meant then giving it a 10.

Then there is a problem. This has nothing to do with the reviews. It has to do with screwing with the math. Rounding is not down or up by your choice.