HolyHalfDead said:SeeD Red said:Boots Orion said:SeeD Red said:Do you ever give less than 9 out of 10?
Yes…but to provide a more detailed answer…
They used to review way more games of varying quality. Now, they don’t seem to review as many games and they tend to be only of the AAA variety.
Agreed, but it also really bothers me to find 8.5 and 9 out of 10 ratings on English speaking websites, 6 or 7's on foreign language websites.
I don’t think I have ever seen a 3 or 4, but TA is not alone in this.
6 or lower = game is an unplayable mess
7 = game is bad with some significant flaws
8 = game is average
9 = game is good with only minor issues
10 = game is really good although there is still room for improvement
And as you have found since the whole 1-10 scale is no longer used, 0.5 is added to bring back some granularity.
Although I prefer it to the either 1 or 10 scale used on sites like IMDB.
1 = worst film ever made, until next week
10 = perfect in every way (usually left by a shill)
Nobody is going to give a 1 or 9 or anything in between as they want the maximum effect of dragging the average up or down.
I gave CoD: Modern Warfare III a 5/10 in our site review
If peeps are interested, here is our review scale:
10 — A genre-defining release. A 10/10 score does not suggest perfection, rather a title that is the pinnacle of what gaming can offer.
9 — An amazing experience, with maybe just a few minor foibles keeping it from the top of the pile.
8 — A great game, if perhaps one with some issues or more limited appeal when compared to those that score higher.
7 — Enjoyable and entertaining — a solid effort and one likely to find favour with fans of the genre.
6 — Shows promise in some aspects, but either unambitious or held back from greatness by glaring issues.
5 — An average or mediocre game that excels in no area and does nothing to advance the genre or medium.
4 — A sub-par offering or one marred by unignorable problems, although genre fans may still tolerate it.
3 — A legitimately bad game with only a few saving graces.
2 — Truly woeful and practically impossible to recommend to anybody.
1 — Genuinely unplayable, and not in a temporary way.
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Our official site review scores are changing (a bit)