GamesTM - Issue 90

[egparadigm]

I think reviews should be given scores out of 7. Numbers 3-7 would hold the current EDGE/GTM values for 5-10, 2 as below average and 1 as "complete and utter cack". Seriously, who knows what the difference is between a score of 1-3?

That or the random fruit solution.

[KIT786]

Here's something simpler.

Reviews give out colours:
Game gets White - among the best in the genre, a game worth buying the system for.
Game gets Green - an excellent game (your 7 and 8s)
Game gets Amber - average game, maybe worth checking out on the cheap or if your a fan of the genre or series.
Game gets Red - Not worth buying, best to avoid.

[Barla Von]

Here's something simpler.

Reviews give out colours:
Game gets White - among the best in the genre, a game worth buying the system for.
Game gets Green - an excellent game (your 7 and 8s)
Game gets Amber - average game, maybe worth checking out on the cheap or if your a fan of the genre or series.
Game gets Red - Not worth buying, best to avoid.

That's not a bad idea mate.

[Strider]

It's a nice idea but publishers would never accept it. And in the real world of magazines you need scores as much as you need publishers. Sad, but true.

[Kaladron]

I don't really understand the notion of replacing a scoring system with a different system. Reviews without scores are fair enough. But replacing a scale of ten with fruit, traffic lights, thumbs, whatever... They're all scoring systems in essence and therefore all as flawed as eachother.

[Barla Von]

They're all scoring systems in essence and therefore all as flawed as eachother.

So if they're all flawed, what's the point in having them in the first place? A point i brought up a few posts ago.

[_y_]

Just because something is flawed does not mean it is without worth.

[Kaladron]

So if they're all flawed, what's the point in having them in the first place? A point i brought up a few posts ago.

I don't think that scores are flawed, but other people on this forum clearly do. The point was that they're interchangeable. If you're going to dump a 10 point scale then there's no reason to replace it with anything.

[Dogg Thang]

replacing a scale of ten with fruit

Just to give fruit its fair hearing, the idea with fruit is that it wouldn't be a defined scale. So a game that is hard to get into but is ultimately rewarding might be awarded one coconut (not sure if that's actually a fruit, its name would suggest a nut of some sort but go with it). Another game might get 4 oranges or 2 bunches of grapes and so on.

The only time a direct comparison could come is when two games get awarded the same type of fruit but, even then, it's not as simple as it seems. When apples are a bit pedestrian and too many could cause stomach upset, would a 10 apple game be seen as better than a 4 apple game?

I have no problem with numbers... just explaining the fruit thing is all. It's not the same as numbers.

[Mayhem]

I suggested "buy, rent, avoid" a long time ago somewhere... whether it has more meaning today I'm not sure.

[Kaladron]

I suggested "buy, rent, avoid" a long time ago somewhere... whether it has more meaning today I'm not sure.

I prefer "buy, torrent, slag it off even though you haven't played it".