I voted for text only, but if putting a number there will keep others happy then go for it

Ok, if gears got a 5/5 from a stie but they really wanted to give it say 92% and if that same site gave resistance a 4/5 but really wanted to give it 89% isn't that kinda unfair in many different ways?

5/5 is 100, 4/5 is only 80, its just not right

Percentages all the way for me

If Gears got a 92 but they really wanted to give it a 91.5, and Resistance got a 91 but they really wanted to give it a 91.4.

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It has nothing to do with fairness (and for your info... if you are aligning 5/5 as the top 5th, then the 4-5 split would be 80%.... so even though there should not be such conversions done.... both 89 and 92% would be 5/5) The simple matter is that the score is not there to compare it to other games.... the score is there to tell you if you need to read the review or not... the review content is what should be compared.

The one subject i excel in is maths, if a game gets 91% its a 5/5, if it gets 89% its 4/5, if it gets 90 then the reviewer is screwed lol.

I'd care a lot more about the poll if I thought that it woul end up being reflected in site policy in any way.

And if people didn't insist on the 100-point scale for some asinine reason. Oh, that burns my beakers. Who wants to fight about it?

Before I bought a Ps3 I saw a lot of people talking shit about the games released... I then read reviews on Resistance and decided that it was a game I wanted. I did the samething with ratchet since I never played a previous one before. The only game I didn't read reviews first about was Lair... and I enjoyed the game until a certain level (the big battle scene in the desert)... what i'm saying is scores don't mean shit.

Except you have changed it to a 6 point scale in doing so.

in your version you aredoing mathematical rounding..... so 91 would be rounded up to 100, which is the same as 5/5 in mathematical terms yes.

similarly 89 would be rounded down to 80, which is 4/5 (read as 4 "over" 5 instead of "out of")..... but what then would a score of 9% be.... surely it would be rounded down to 0/5.... except we are using a 5 point scale which doesn't have a 0/5 in it.

I also know my maths   but this doesn't involve maths because it is an opinion based reflection of how close a game is to horrid, or amazing..... so a 5 point scale would not be stretched so that the top (5/5) is 100 and the bottom (1/5) is 0. It would involve ranges:

1/5 = 0-20
2/5 = 20-40
etc

 Ok, scoring out of 100 sucks, text only reviews win, fanboys have nothing to brag about because it will only be "word of mouth" that will prove which game is better.

 Both of our mathamatical prowesses are clearly on show here, looks like another agree to disagree scenario to me