10 out of 10 is the highest score something can get, that or 100 out of 100, but I digress.

If a game has the maximum score, that means that it is basically perfect. The point of having a 10 is for the chance that a game ever manages to be perfect.

nerf é super legau

It's a joke Matt, no need to get so bent out of shape over it.

Dumb comic is dumb. A 10 does not mean something is perfect. It means the flaws are easily overlooked or forgivable. If we say 10 is perfect nothing can ever be a 10. And if nothing can ever be a 10 there's no point in having a 10 as a score. Quit trolling out this stupid point, it's stupid.

I keep hearing those...GOD DAMN numbers!

If it was perfect, it would have gone to 11.

I like the reviews of PCGameplay the most. At least, I liked it the most, don't know if it's still good.
Anyway, they used to check 3 separate points in the game:
- gameplay
- graphics
- sound
So the gameplay might be PERFECT, but if the sound is 'good' you can't get a perfect score.

[url=#user_comment_64111]@Bob[/url]: I would say... That if they spended that whole quantity of money, it should cost at least 2 points... just an opinion here... I mean, with that quantity of money they could have given us at least 3 games with a 8 or 8.5 qualification :/

Rockstar sure does like tossing that money around.
Even if Team Bondi were the real developers.

They oughtta just use the "Japanese-style ranking" system. F through A, with A being an excellent, five-star game with minor issues that are easily overlooked.

And you save the coveted "S" ranking for a game that you really mean to call PERFECT perfect.

[url=#user_comment_64047]@Dapperhare[/url]: How hopelessly naive.

Many generics games received a perfect score.

[url=#user_comment_64074]@Dt[/url]: ALEX Mason is from CoD Black Ops while the one in Red Faction Guerrilla is ALEC Mason

I prefer user rating but its rare to see sites with it, even rarer to see sites which allow to sort by user rating not by who-paid-the-most-for-their-game rating.


p.s. gamespot still hasnt got money for a witcher 2 review. Do they really expect to be payed? naive...

i prefer the 1-5 rating system that xplay uses before they became shit.

This is why I distrust reviews. The comic gives a perfect example of how the actual quality of the game is considered after the company that made it.

Even under a loose rating where 10 doesn't equal perfect, though, game mechanics and pacing are significant points, and should land a game a 9/10 if it's really great otherwise. 9/10's 'subperfect' like that. Butyeah, this is what bothers me about reviews too. ^^;

Anyway, wasn't Alex Mason the main hero of Red Faction: Guerilla?

I lol'd

Plain numbers can be interpreted too differently. This might be a good opportunity to recycle the school ratings like A-F. There you can easily give an A-rating while still having room for annotations about imperfections and stuff.

THE NUMBERS MASON, WHAT DO THEY MEAN!?

Oh how many good games were forgotten, and how many average games were overrated this way... That's why I haven't read gaming magazines for several years.

I hate scoring systems in video games, people simply skip the written review and go straight at scoring, I found some games that rated poorly by some video game sites or magazines but I actually enjoy it.

Screw point systems, I prefer written reviews with no point system.

This isn't really the "Doubt" option. The "Doubt" option would be to call him a fucking liar and act like you believe he doesn't in fact think the game is perfect, and far from it.

@DeadSid :
It is not surprising that the average game quite a bit above this halfway point. This halfway point is still not very good. It barely manages to not be overtly BAD, but there are still far more enjoyable uses of your time, so these halfway points tend to not sell very well.

To say that five is average is pure fallacy. Five is the halfway point between the worst imaginable game, a game without a single redeeming quality, and the best imaginable game, a game without a single flaw.

Used to be some companies used a half star system. The problem with reading the review to temper the star system is that too many people don't. The point of the rating originally was just a quick, simple graphic to summarize the overall impression. Metacritic is centered on people not reading.

[url=#user_comment_64033]@DM1293[/url]: I would agree, with you if I wouldn't know that Angry Joe's a pretentious douchebag with so much unfunny jokes and logically flawed oppinions that if you are a normal human being with self-respect and dignity you can't listen to him longer than a few minutes.

That's not the point of rating a game. If you rate it then your giving a basis of comparison to other games. 5 being average. Sure its a great game but if you have complaints about it how can you possibly say its a 10? If 5 is average why do so many reviewers rate so many games as 8 9 and 10.

Bah, a comic made by someone who doesn't understand the point of such reviews. Reviews tell people whether a game should be played. If a game receives a 10/10, then the reviewer believes that the game should be played because people would enjoy playing it.

Though even compared to similar reviews with same flaws and see if he is always so forgiving, the idea of reviews showing bias, if not outright being bought off, is not something that will disappear anytime soon. But with as many reviewers out there, simply find one less generous with perfect scores

if there were issues raised, especially fairly noticeable and large issues like pacing, mechanics and length, then it does beg the question about how it obtained a perfect score.
I guess the only true way to verify this would be comparing this review and issues raised with other reviews...

"rounded to the nearest whole number it's a 10."

@Wrong is Right
By your own post a 10/10 doesnt mean a perfect score same a 5/5 doesnt mean a perfect score. 100/100 would be one but where does a 96-99/100 rate? If its a high 90s game it shouldnt be but down with a low 90 game as a 9. I see it as if its a 10 its going to go down as a classic.

THE NUMBERS MASON! WHAT DO THEY MEAN?!
Good follow up Dodds.
This game is surprisingly fun to play with multiple people.

LEAVE MASON ALONE

I prefer Angry Joe's reviews on his point system - 5 to 6 is a game that has some merits but is generally meh. 7 to 8 is pretty good, despite flaws. 9 is a damn good damn with a couple issues that keep the shiny stuff shiny (laggy online for instance). A 10 is so much fun you ignore the flaws.

Review scores are bullshit, this argument is proof.
Read the text, make a decision. If you get hung up about the little number at the end that was only ever supposed to be there to give the reader a quick-glance idea as to the direction that the review takes, then you're doing it wrong.

Review scores are relative, not objective.

If game scores were meant to be objective as in provable or factual, NO game would EVER get a perfect score, because perfection does not exist.

Is L.A. Noire perfect? No.
Is it one of the best games ever in that reviewers opinion? Probably.

Indeed. A 10 point scale is pretty much unforgiving on such things. Just as percentages (a 100 point scale), a complete maximum score DOES mean a perfect game.

Which is why I like the more ambiguous "star" grade (four out of five stars!), simply because even at 5 there's some wriggling room

A 10/10 DOES mean perfect - just because the perception of review scores has been destroyed by the current trend of the Four Point Scale doesn't mean you have to accept it as such.

A 10 out of 10 does NOT mean PERFECT. A 10 out of 10 means that it is above and beyond what a normal game will give you, it is a game that people will be talking about for years to come. The few flaws are so minor that there are in the game are so minor that most will not care.

@Elia Moroes: ALICE!!! <3

Bethesda should take lessons from this.

Is there Witcher 2 review on gamespot? Or are they still waiting to be paid?

Read the reviews first and ignore the score, that's my policy.
This is the reason.

why i never read reviews

I think he was paid off.

Actually, L.A. Noire is not on my wishlist, at the moment. I'm just pushed up for Alice: Madness Returns. And I am a guy who just loves Noir and detective stories

Rockstar has done so much to hurt the industry, nearly as bad as EA

I don't think Phoenix Wright could get this guy off the hook.

Truth: SO YOU KILLED HIM HUH
Doubt: SO WRONG, YOU KILLED HIM HUH
Lie: YOU LIER, YOU KILLED HIM
Actual intent: So your alibi is a bit weird. Which orphanage were you working at, again?

The movie was very good, i hope they'll make a videogame transposition some time in the future.

I enjoy this game.

Come on, be easy on me, the game has hookers that you can beat to death with baseball clubs ¿You seriously think that players will give a shit?!They played GTA IV, for god`s sake¡

This is hilarious.

[url=#user_comment_63975]@Dodds[/url]- That was the first thing that went through my mind, too. xD

THE NUMBERS MASON! WHAT DO THEY MEAN?!

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