What does a 10 mean to me? Ideally, perfection.
Practically, taking into consideration the whole concept of reviewing and the breakneck pace of technology today, means something less. I consider a 10/10 (or a 100, or a A+, whatever) game a game that is so good you cannot meaningfully improve it under current technology, hardware and reasonable human ability. This means that a game can have dozens of flaws, but as long as those flaws cannot be mended without worseing the experience, they will not detract from a 10 score.
For example, GTA4. I can see quite a bit of texture pop-in and even model pop-in, especially if you change islands on a sportscar at full throttle or when flying, and that's a flaw. However, fixing that would mean that R* would need to make sacrifices in other areas. They would need to, say, make a smaller gameworld, reduce texture resolution, insert load screens between islands, drop model complexity, or a combination of these. Would this end up with GTA4 being a significantly better product? If, in your opinion, the answer is no, then you shouldn't dock points for the pop-in from a 10 score.
[QUOTE="WeAreBorn"]To me, it's perfection. No game deserves that.Grive
Thing is, doing so, you end up killing the idea of numbers. Of course, this might be the end intent: To show the flaws of numerically scoring games.Well, in my opinion, it merely represents 'perfect', but it's not easily achievable.
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