Today's Takeaway - 10/24
I don't get it. Sticking to a review scale you've developed should be easy. While reviewing games is difficult, because it is impossible to manage expectations for the whole of the Internet. It is just rather misleading. Sure, there is no industry standard and that makes it difficult to bounce from site to site and expect a 7 to mean the same thing everywhere. I myself having only written a handful of reviews for ScrewAttack am still getting used to the scale. So if it is so difficult, why make it harder on everyone, by breaking your own scale? Like YAHOO did by giving Batman: Arkham City a 6 out of 5... WTF?!
Even if I could find the review scale on your site (which I couldn't), a six is not on there. So if a five signified that this was a must play game for any gamer, any console, any generation, then what is a six? Should I sell all my personal possessions, abandon my family, and try to go out playing this game, like Nick Cage drank booze in Leaving Las Vegas? Is that what you want me to do YAHOO Games?!
I just think we all need to stop blowing things out of proportion. Think about what happens on meta-critic when you give a 6 out of 5. That translates to a 120! Like that smart kid that keeps blowing the curve in Chemistry. I hate that kid. What do you guys think? Should a website be allowed to break their own review scale? And if they do, do you also think it makes reviewing more difficult?
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g1 DISCUSSIONS
Bonidex
Playing Arkham Asylum on hard to remember... Waiting for City to come to pc... :)
Shiro_Shishi
First off, I love that header pic.
Second, I think it's ok for reviewers to break their own review scales from time to time. It just shows they are having fun, which are what games are about...having fun.
I love Victor Lucas from Reviews on the Run and always trust his scores, but I also know he's a HUGE Batman fanboy. He scored Arkham City a 12/10, while ridiculous, I absolutely loved that he did that. He had so much fun with the game, even being a fanboy, that he would do that? Totally awesomes.
TheEnglishman
I think I'd pick a slightly better review site than Yahoo Games...
OVERSKY
In all likelihood, they did it just to attract more attention to themselves BECAUSE Yahoo games isn't a trusted review site.
Shamasha Matthew
Indeed, the solution to the problem, if there was one (that the scale was ignored), is in the source itself: Yahoo. It's freakin Yahoo. I blame them, and old people out there who think they could hang with the youts.
STAARScommando
What has Screwattack done to get on the Riddler's shit list?
NaokiB4U
"Should I sell all my personal possessions, abandon my family, and try to go out playing this game, like Nick Cage drank booze in Leaving Las Vegas? Is that what you want me to do YAHOO Games?!"
That is absolutely what you should be doing. This game is fucking amazing.
Lipnox88
Batman Offers the full package. anyone who reads reviews on yahoo is likely to feel batman arkham city is a 6/5 game, anyone who cares wouldn't trust them anyways.
Zubzero120
Usually the review scores give me an idea of if I should buy it, and then I do my freaking homework to see if it's the right game for me. I don't go by peer pressure from just one site and buy the game baised on the 56000 out of 1000 they gave it. I see the score on at least 5 sites, and analyze the game. A game like the first Deus Ex was given an incredible score, being praised by millions, but the game is a first-person stealth-baised game, which I was not into after finding out on my brother's steam account.
metaking64x
To be fair, it does DESERVE a 6/5.