[QUOTE="Magebane"] And for those of you STILL beefing it, saying "no one is your daddy, you have your own mind, reviews don't matter" please, please tell me why you participate in a game REVIEWing website, surrounded by people who review games on their own?
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I don't care about the scores. Actually I think reviews shouldn't have them at all. I just want a more or less detailed description of the games and then I'll decide if I'm interested or not.
/agree. I actually think that more gamers would benefit from a "pros and cons" list instead of a number. Unfortunately there isn't a great way to do that. The number is a quick reference to the overall performance, and a "pros and cons" list would require more than a quick glance for a final "opinion". Overall, giving gamers a list of "why it's good" and "why it isn't good" would allow gamers to decide for themselves what kind of score it has, because something that is "bad" might not apply to everyone. For example, i found the camera to be a non-issue most of the time in too human. Does that make it a 5.5 still? Probably not, it might jump a point or so. Eliminating the number system would greatly increase user interpretation, instead of author interpretation. Granted a review is still opinion, so something that doesn't work for the reviewer might still be reflected heavily on the negative side, and at that point you will have to try the game for yourself to decide whether you like it...Thank the lord all mighty for demos!
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