Oct 31
Help! Video Game Reviews, Broken
Kotaku writer, Mark Wilson, has written a very, very good article on video game reviews, and the direction it’s been heading in. The article is extremely well written, and gives readers great points and heavy support. Wilson criticizes the criticism by touching on the fact that some publications are a bit ridiculous when it comes to giving number scores, how video games are being reviewed as products and not art, and shows everyone how reviewing should be.
There are reviews that go to the hundredth decimal place, scoring games like 9.45. In such cases, reviewers are essentially scoring out of a thousand. So what separates a 9.45 from a 9.44 or a 9.34. And on that matter, what separates an 82 from an 87? Maybe Yoshi’s tongue snapped too quickly back into his mouth. If that were only tweaked, man, Miyamoto could have cleaned up with at least an 88.349.
Tough. Hard hitting. It’s a terrific article to read, if you get the chance to.
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<3 Marky Mark Wilson.
DAMN. I was going to cover this when I got around to writing.
I agree 900 billion percent. The current review system is shit.
That’s why here at MEGATONik, we got by a ?/5 scale, only splitting into .5s.
I know, .5s are what started this whole deal, but in certain times, they’re necessary.
What always got me were the ratings that went in the hundredths, like Gamespot does. That was why I thought the Twilight Princess review was bullshit…not because I thought it was so great, but that it just seemed to be a flamebait score, one that easily could have been rounded up to 90.
I agree, but you guys already know this. One to five, no decimals, is all anybody needs.
“BUT DEX, THAT MEANS LOTS OF GAMES WILL GET A SCORE OF 3, AND WEZ CANT HAVE THAT BECAUZ IT WUDNT MAKE CENTS”
My impressions of douchebags in old threads on different sites are dead on.
By douchebags I mean that fat guy…you know, I forget his name
dprime? Bill Richardson?
But what say you about Metacritic?
Nah, I forget his ‘name…’
I see what you did there.
Sorta.
I hope.
Okay, now I get it.