Or maybe just stupid?

Stemming from the observations I made after my Dynasty Warriors review and being further influenced by reading the assorted sorry excuses for reviews in games since... I have to wonder about the competency of the vast majority of Gamespot users.

Browsing reviews, I am deluged by scores of 8+ across the board. Apparently every game out there is Great or even Superb. Perhaps in response to this discrepancy, though likely just the same problem in reverse without any recognition as to why, the scores that don't fall into this seeming default are ridiculously low. So, evidently, everyone that visits Gamespot is only capable of feeling drastic extremes of opinion without any middle ground or shades of grey. Why do we almost never see scores of 4, 5, or 6? Even 3 and 7 are uncommon enough as to be near-mythological.

And it gets worse if you actually read the reviews. They rarely make sense. That is to say that they rarely describe an opinion of the game in question that matches up with the score the reviewer gave. How can you give a game a Great or Superb score but then have most of your review detail all of the things about it that you didn't like? NEWSFLASH: When a game has more qualities that you dislike than you like, it is not, in fact, a Great game. It is probably not even a Good game. It's like people are afraid to say that a game is just okay or it is only slightly lacking. No, it either has to be a divine gift to gamers or it is the worst piece of trash in creation. No in between, no bell curve, no damn sense. At all.

I've actually been going through my ratings and making sure that the benchmarks I have set in my own opinion are most accurately reflected by the scores that I give. If you are one of those rare, likely insane, souls that pays attention to me... expect a massive change in my list of ratings.