I've seen a lot of different review scales for games out there, from approve/disapprove to scores out of 100 (or 10.0). My problem with most scales is that they are reflective of the launch window and of launch prices. Since my own general gaming strategy is to wait until a game drops in price, my viewpoint on a game's merit is sometimes different than the release-day purchaser.

For my Worthwhile Reviews series, I'll be boiling the matter down to one simple question: was the game fun enough for the price I paid? I'm not going to score them and I'm not going to try to approach it as clinically as one should for a scored review. I'm just going to give you my impressions and tell you if I felt satisfied with the deal I got.

That's it. Simple, huh?



Oh, I almost forgot... since these aren't scored reviews, they aren't going to be in the Reader Reviews section. I'll be tagging each entry with "worthwhile", though, so people can at least find a list of reviews in this series that way. Keep in mind also that most of the games I'm reviewing are old and I'm the last person on the planet that hasn't played them, so I doubt there's going to be a widespread problems with people looking for these reviews.