robio said:

Oh I'm not arguing that 8 is a bad score. Only that when I look at the Metacritic scores the lowest that any reviewer has given Pikmin 3 is an 8. Therefore it means that Gamespot gave the game its' lowest score. And when I see that there's this little voice I hear in my head that says, "yeah.... par for the course."

Honestly I've stopped reading their reviews after the RE6 review. Too many shenanigans there I say.

Sadly, I only read their "controversial" reviews, so I am part of the problem.  Take the following with Gamespot (and this particular review) completely out of your mind; eight out of ten is a very high score so when I see it and everyone else is higher than that, I tend to think, "Okay, maybe this is a reviewer using the scale a bit more thoughtfully than the usual reviewer".

I am hopeless with the ten point scale myself.  My ten point scale is usually this:

8.0 = Mediocre,

8.5 = Good,

9 = Better than Good, but I don't want to give it a 10,

10 = Great Game

and then everything below 8.0 is when I am really annoyed by a game and I'll give it anything from 0-7.5 depending on how pissed off I am.

I think I definately need to switch to a 5/5 system.  But then, 3 would be the new 8.

Foolz said:

3 is closer to 2.5 than 8 is to 5.

I meant by my skewed scale.

Foolz after years I finally have to ask. Just what the fuck is that in your signature?

aspro said:

Sadly, I only read their "controversial" reviews, so I am part of the problem.  Take the following with Gamespot (and this particular review) completely out of your mind; eight out of ten is a very high score so when I see it and everyone else is higher than that, I tend to think, "Okay, maybe this is a reviewer using the scale a bit more thoughtfully than the usual reviewer".

I am hopeless with the ten point scale myself.  My ten point scale is usually this:

8.0 = Mediocre,


8.5 = Good,


9 = Better than Good, but I don't want to give it a 10,


10 = Great Game

and then everything below 8.0 is when I am really annoyed by a game and I'll give it anything from 0-7.5 depending on how pissed off I am.

I think I definately need to switch to a 5/5 system.  But then, 3 would be the new 8.

This is the reason I made my site a 5 point system. A game really shouldn't become "acceptable" at the 8 point mark.

Archangel3371 said:

Tomb Raider is freakin' awesome.

Huh, are you only playing it now?

LOLOLOLOLOL, I just watched the new Deep Down trailer, massive downgrade from what was the only next gen looking game. The snippets shown are too poor to be dodgy cgi. And now it's an online game? Hell no.




Wait it gets worse: "The game’s genre is a "memory reading RPG" or "reading RPG" as see in katakana. The teaser site also mentions deep down requires an internet connection and is an online exclusive similar to Dragon’s Dogma Quest."

Deep Down


ROFL

GAF: "Deep Down looks fucking awesome!! No downgrade at all. This is the power of PS4. And I love the fact that you need to always be connected.



Day one."

Boy takes wheel when grandma passes out -- The article ends with "The fact that there were no blue shells helped."