@twesterm: you only made one review...

But I like your style ;)

What would be wrong with someone ranking them that way, even if they were all rated by the same person?

Tell a RPG fan than revenant wings is better than DQIV, he will laugh at you, and then kill you.

What would you say I give haze a 8 and halo 3 a 6?

No single person's opinions can dictate the tone of an entire site. All that's asked of reviewers is that we justify our own scores, and each of our reviews does that admirably.

I would hope that your reviews would give very good reasons why you hand out those scores.

While I'm not sure about the examples you picked, I too feel that VGChartz reviews tend to be far too lenient. Recently I calculated the average score and it was at almost 8! The most given scores are all in the 8-9 range .

This might be due to the fact, that they are reviewing games they liked, but often I found that reviewers here are quick to give "good" games an 8 and above and "ok" games 7 and above, so in my opinion the majority of reviews are 1 point too high, with few exceptions like recently Ico and GoW:CoO. They received very just scores from my view, but due to the inflated scores of other games these seem too "harsh".

"All that's asked of reviewers is that we justify our own scores, and each of our reviews does that admirably."

Well that's a problem, VGchartz should provide a grid or something to reviewers.

I just think the overhyped nintendo games get too high of a score. How super smash bros brawl and galaxy get such high scores are beyond me. I have them both and i haven't even finished them because i got bored with playing them so quickly..

I have probably overstepped my boundaries already in this conversation, I'll ask Naz to give a more definite statement whenever he gets on.

I will say, however, that there is no such thing as an objective review. Expecting one is unrealistic, and it's actually harmful to you as a reader.

Naz, if I misspoke, I apologize.

afro samurai is being bashed by multiple sources, an 6 is pretty ok

Then it seems quite simple. You just have incredibly bad taste.