when did 8.5 become a terrible rating?

When GS and other game sites began giving out 10's and 9.5/9.0's to games that were just good or a bit better than average.

9 and above should have been (as in the past) specifically for those "once in a generation" type games ... the games that not only did everything right, but created a new paradigm and added new features/ways of playing games that all other games in the genre should be judged against.

I am hoping some of the 8.5 and lower scores for good games recently, is start of the correction that has needed to happen for quite some time now.

It's a game we play.

It's just that people here don't get that or get mad when we joke around with it.
You know,the "fun at parties" type of people.

On System Wars:

10 - Perfect game

9.5 - Fantastic game

9.0 - Great game

8.5 - Good game

8.0 - Average game

7.5 - Meh game

7.0 - Poor game

6.5 - Bad game

Lower than 6.5 - Horrible game

peterw007

Score inflation. It is as simple as that. Instead of appropriately using the scores of 1.0 to 10.0 with 5.0 being average. As the overal quality of games rise, hype, review payout, etc rise, more games start scoring between 7.5 through 8.5 score range, thus it becomes the new average. This makes the review scale take place between 6.0 through 10.0 with 6.0 being terrible, when it should be slightly above average. A few years ago, 7.0 to 7.5 was the "average" for a game with most review sites, now it is becoming 8.0 to 8.5, so people associate those scores with an average game.The same effect can be seeing with education grades a C is supposed to be average, however the grade usually carries a negative connotation and B's then become considered average.

Score inflation. It is as simple as that. Instead of appropriately using the scores of 1.0 to 10.0 with 5.0 being average. As the overal quality of games rise, hype, review payout, etc rise, more games start scoring between 7.5 through 8.5 score range, thus it becomes the new average. This makes the review scale take place between 6.0 through 10.0 with 6.0 being terrible, when it should be slightly above average. A few years ago, 7.0 to 7.5 was the "average" for a game with most review sites, now it is becoming 8.0 to 8.5, so people associate those scores with an average game.The same effect can be seeing with education grades a C is supposed to be average, however the grade usually carries a negative connotation and B's then become considered average.

DarkGamer007

The best games released nowadays are 8,5. Most of the 9,0+ are overrated by hype and production values, and in truth deserves less than 8,0.

When basically every shooter started receiving AAA hype.

Since Rare started getting them. :o :twisted:

Just ask most anyone here and they'll tell you, Rare now stinks because of it. :P

It doesn't. Judge the game for yourself. New Vegas is easily the best RPG this gen IMO and it scored a 7.5 here. HoolaHoopMan

[QUOTE="HoolaHoopMan"]It doesn't. Judge the game for yourself. New Vegas is easily the best RPG this gen IMO and it scored a 7.5 here. Am_Confucius