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kirby007 on 09 December 2008

I rate this thread 9.6/10



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colonelstubbs on 09 December 2008

I still think the letter system was fine but...whatever....



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Ronster316 on 09 December 2008

Hey, scoring out of 100% won the poll buy guess what............ Yes, a huge percentage....... emphasis on the word percentage there, i debated this for hours a couple of weeks back with TWRoO and many other non percentage likers and i still beleive that scoring out of 100% is simply the most accurate way to score a game and seperate the men games from the boy games.



Khuutra on 09 December 2008
Kantor said:
@Khuutra: It's not hard to be better than Mirror's Edge. It's not like "Party Babiez is as good as Mirror's Edge" is any better, is it?

I like the 100% method. It's best for comparing. What is easier to choose between, 94 and 89 or A- and A-?

Of course, you still read the review, but scores give an at-a-glance impression of the quality of a game. Also, with the letter scale, only the A and B scores are ever used. And most of us have no idea what they mean, other than Metacritic's awful A+ = 100, A = 100 chart.

Receiving the same score does not mean that two games are of the same quality. It has never meant this, it never should mean this, and that people interpret it this way is both wrong and disconcerting.



theRepublic on 09 December 2008
Ronster316 said:
Hey, scoring out of 100% won the poll buy guess what............ Yes, a huge percentage....... emphasis on the word percentage there, i debated this for hours a couple of weeks back with TWRoO and many other non percentage likers and i still beleive that scoring out of 100% is simply the most accurate way to score a game and seperate the men games from the boy games.

There is no such thing as accuracy when you are talking about subjective opinions.



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Thatmax on 09 December 2008
kirby007 said:
I rate this thread 9.6/10

 

Actually I would rate it 96% ;)



TWRoO on 09 December 2008
Ronster316 said:
Hey, scoring out of 100% won the poll buy guess what............ Yes, a huge percentage....... emphasis on the word percentage there, i debated this for hours a couple of weeks back with TWRoO and many other non percentage likers and i still beleive that scoring out of 100% is simply the most accurate way to score a game and seperate the men games from the boy games.

Which is where you missed the point, the scores are not based on accuracy, and as such using percentage is no more accurate than the reviewer saying "buy this game" or "don't buy this"



EssosDeeos on 09 December 2008

Get rid of scores! Read the f***ing review instead (and this might improve the quality of the review instead of "scribble scribble, score for graphics, scribble, audio score, right, neck on the line, here's the final score - what, did no-one read my review??)



Gilgamesh on 22 December 2008

Well its been two weeks....lol

I've notice that there was a new review yesterday and it had the letter rating system, so I take it that you don't plan on changing it??



Kantor on 22 December 2008
Khuutra said:
Kantor said:
@Khuutra: It's not hard to be better than Mirror's Edge. It's not like "Party Babiez is as good as Mirror's Edge" is any better, is it?

I like the 100% method. It's best for comparing. What is easier to choose between, 94 and 89 or A- and A-?

Of course, you still read the review, but scores give an at-a-glance impression of the quality of a game. Also, with the letter scale, only the A and B scores are ever used. And most of us have no idea what they mean, other than Metacritic's awful A+ = 100, A = 100 chart.

Receiving the same score does not mean that two games are of the same quality. It has never meant this, it never should mean this, and that people interpret it this way is both wrong and disconcerting.

I know this. A lot of VGChartz members don't. Just as a 94 is not necessarily better than a 92, a 4/5 is not necessarily as good as a 4/5. Reviews are meant for comparing games within a genre, or within your preferred genres.

Even a 9/10 scale is better than this awful letter sytem. Please, get rid of it.

 



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