Four straight games with 9/10 scores at GameSpot in the last few days?

Yesterday, I looked at the game reviews section at GameSpot and I saw this,

Four games reviewed in the last few days and each received a 9/10 score? In my years at GameSpot, I have never seen that many 9/10 scores in a few number of days.

Games are either getting better or Gamespot is sweetening the reviews.

Ironically despite gaming being by far my main hobby, consuming much of my freetime for decades I do not read game journalism articles or reviews.

Yup, we’ve been getting some really awesome games lately. No doubt Monster Hunter World will soon join them as well.

looking forward to next episode of current Batman Telltale series, though I doubt many people appreciate that kind of stuff

9gn

Too generous with Street Fighter 5.

Yeah, thought that was a lot of high scores.

DBFZ has been looking great along though, so no surprises there. And SFV:AE is not only a great buy in for new players, but also a great free update for existing owners.

Can't really speak on the other two, but it could just be that a lot of good games are dropping at once.

Also gotta keep in mind how top heavy this industry is with the scale. A 9/10 doesn't really mean much anymore.

And by the end of the week we'll have another 10/10. I'm calling it for Monster Hunter World.

Well on the one hand it's a pretty significant update, and it's FREE for existing owners. Also a great buy in price for new buyers.

On the other hand, looks like Princessgomez here has hardly played the base game and hasn't even played AE. So not like he would know what's what anyways.

This year is on a good start.

What do you think of IGN's site redesign? It looks kind of basic.

It's a conspiracy.

@GameboyTroy: Honestly I don't visit IGN that much anymore, I watch an occasional video review from them here and there.

When it comes to written articles, I far prefer Eurogamer, Gamespot and a dutch site called gamer.nl

I think I just spotted another one earlier, this streak will likely end in March though when Sea of Thieves releases lol

Why because of Xbox Bias?

They are high - especially for this site. Compare it to 3 previous years for control to see if it really is high or if it is just that you didn't notice last time(s).

@xhawk27: well, I'd rather not make accusations, kind of poking fun at the notion.....but, you know, if you look at the statistics of the matter, not many Xbox One games got a 9 here

Gamespot getting soft. Usually they have lower scores than IGN.

So they reviewed Street Fighter 5 twice, gamespot really is the worst place for reviews.

I would say their standards are dropping. 10/10 used to be unheard of, and now they’re handing them out like candy. Take divinity original sin 2 for example. Great game, but in no way deserving of a 10. Even witcher 3, my favorite game of this gen had mediocre combat, clunky movement, and generally crappy itemization, yet still scored a 10.

10 should indicate that there wasn’t really anything glaring that could be improved. Yet both games had glaringly obvious things that could have been much better.

I hear they got a new doc that changed their medication...

What do reviewers know about video games

Imagine the outrage if there were four games in a row that scored 3/10 or something low.

Another game got a 9/10.

@i_p_daily: Re-reviewing a game after a major overhaul like that Arcade Edition is bad?!? So they shouldn't have reviewed Ultra Street Fighter 4 when it released, and should probably skip all rereleases for the switch and remasters for all systems? Come on, at least once on this site try to not be a dumbass.

The Red String Club sounds interesting.

Why do the scores have different colours?

@johndmgs: Blue is for Review-in-Progress.