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king_of_the_castle on 11 November 2008

I stopped paying attention to scores when they started doing video reviews, it's the new way to avoid reading.



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XGamer0611 on 11 November 2008

Number reviews will never go away. The reason is that companies use gaming websites and magazines to advertise. If there game is getting terrible reviews they won't pay for advertising.

You see a 6.5 looks so much better then a D or D- or 2.5 of 5



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NightstrikerX on 11 November 2008

Number reviews are so ignorant gamers can browse their favorite reviewer magazine, or website and look at what games have big numbers and which have small numbers so they can justify their purchase of whatever game they bought and didn't bought. Its way easier to look at a page in a magazine and see a 9.2 overall score than reading though paragraphs after paragraphs in a comprehensive review afterall.



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Khuutra on 11 November 2008

People don't advertise with 6.5s

Do not be silly



forevercloud3000 on 11 November 2008
TWRoO said:
I would prefer a smaller set myself, like 5 point..... or in fact just take out points alltogether and replace with words to avoid confusion.

The basis of how good one game is compared to another cannot be put onto some accurate scale, it depends on preference.... a smaller point scale I think would encourage gamers to actually read the reviews rather than just assume the better score must mean Halo 3 is better than Resistance (or insert your own pair of games here)

 

You know, I usually hate the 5 point scale reviews for I never thought they gave enough insight on the game. Yet when you phrase it that way, it actually sounds like a profound idea.

 

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forevercloud3000 on 11 November 2008

the reason I prefer the point values(.1+) is because when a reviewer does this it usually means that there is something within the game that warrants slightly more symbolism then just an 8 or 9. This means the review takes in more details from the game to explain WHY the game got that grade in the first place.
I would not go as far as 9.99999999 bull. That is insane. 9.1-9.9 would do for me.

Details people, details.



      

      

      

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Khuutra on 11 November 2008

But the score doesn't correlate with the detail and care of the review. It does not do that at all.



TWRoO on 11 November 2008
forevercloud3000 said:
the reason I prefer the point values(.1+) is because when a reviewer does this it usually means that there is something within the game that warrants slightly more symbolism then just an 8 or 9. This means the review takes in more details from the game to explain WHY the game got that grade in the first place.
I would not go as far as 9.99999999 bull. That is insane. 9.1-9.9 would do for me.

Details people, details.

That's the problem though, reviews are more complex than a score can possibly portray.... the more detail the score goes into, the more it is based on the reviewers own opinion rather than on whether the game is worth purchasing.

With a 5 or 7 point scale, say using:
Outstanding.
Excellent
Good
Average
Mediocre
Poor
Horrible

This would stop people using random numbers to determine how good a game is, and also could have stopped the "review inflation" that seems to have happened with gaming, (where a game isn't considered worth playing if it is reviewed under 75%)

With this scale, reviewer bias would only show in extreme cases like with GTAIV (which would have got too many outstandings) or with many Wii games being reviewed poorly (nothing could have stopped the overwhelming bias against the Wii by most old style reviewers)

In fact I would even argue taking out the "outstanding" and the "mediocre" levels in favour of a 5 level scale.



Relias on 11 November 2008

Actually, I prefer that they just give the game a whole number... I don't deal with decimals when it comes to reviews. I want them to say it earns all or nothing...with that being said I'm giving the OP a 4.58968000798594873 out of 5... and that's as precise as I'm getting. LOL



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rocketpig on 11 November 2008

I think every game should be rated 3.14159265...




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