Top 10 Reasons why you should read reviews but ignore the scores.

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ilovetogame on 03 November 2007

i agree with mr. erik aston. saying one game is a 8.9 and another is a 8.7 doesn't really matter cuz when anyone tries to bring their review of a game down to such a detailed and miniscule level the score is gonna be very subjective. i think something a bit broader like 1 through 5, but maybe with 4.5 added in to differentiate from great games and games that are like genre defining. so like 1 sucks, 2 is bad but some people might like it okay, 3 is a pretty solid game but with some pretty big flaws, 4 is good to very good, 4.5 is amazing, and 5 is like zelda OoT, mario 64, ff3/7 type of score. anything more detailed than that really lets in a lot of bias and subjective scoring that doesn't mean anything to the very varied gaming crowd. and also its pretty easy to say game A is slightly better than game B scored 8.1 so i'll score game A 8.3. but then on a different day you have a particularly fun time playing game B and you realize maybe it is a little better than game A. basically it doesn't matter, on the scoring system above they'd both be a 4 and you'd know its a good game and if it sounds interesting or you like similar games then its worth buying.

with a less detailed scoring system there are less personal preferences of the reviewer that finds its way into the score cuz theres a very limited number of scores to give and so the score will more likely match up with the majority of gamers out there.

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SeriousWB on 03 November 2007

I'm the opposite Shambolic, I hate any review that is out of just 10. This is because there is more of a tendancy to give many games 10/10.

10/10 = 100% = perfect. When I see some games given 10/10 it makes my blood boil to no end. The difference between 97% and 10/10 is that there is room for improvement. 10/10 should mean the game is perfect, it couldn't be better. I cannot see how that could be said about the games getting 10/10 scores these days.