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The "elusive" Perfect 10 -- or, a rant on user reviews.

People don't seem to realize that by freely tossing around perfect 10's in their user reviews, they aren't helping -- at all. Just because you enjoy a game -- even if you enjoy it a lot -- does not mean it has no flaws and is automatically as good as it gets, and can't be improved upon in any meaningful way. All these bogus reviews do is inflate the average user score, which makes it more difficult for a person like me to make a judgement call without wading through all these annoyingly unhelpful gush-fests to find a handful of honest, useful reviews. The same goes for the complete opposite, as well: the (usually undeserved) bottom of the barrel 1's.

In short: put more thought into your review of a game, or don't review it at all, folks.