>”the reason that game scores are inflated is due to the fact that some gamers cannot accept that a game being 8/10 can still be a great game due to Americans proclaiming that only a 10/10 is worth anything due to an American preference for frontrunners, thus people would think only a 10/10 is worth playing when we know that isn’t really true. As well due to the American grading scale of anything being lower than a 70% generally being failing, they feel that if a game gets a lower score, it must be a failure. In general the human fixation with comparisons has caused all of this and the current dilemma of journalism in video gaming that we suffer from today.”
Hmmm, yes, I will definitely consider these words from the designer of E.T. the Extra Terrestrial for the Atari 2600
Mason Allen
As an American, I concur with this statement.
Oliver Gomez
Burgerland being full of retards isn't something new
Levi Reyes
He also made Yars’ Revenge
Nathan James
The most overrated game on Atari
Gabriel Collins
Literally who? Why should I listen to this guy’s opinion?
Christian Hill
>it's the ratings fault that no one plays my shit game >it's americas fault that no one plays my shit game
Ratings have literally never mattered and vidya devs deserve to be bullied.
Ethan Long
He’s entirely correct
Dylan Gomez
there is nothing wrong with using the standard grading scale as a metric for rating games
100 - 91 = superb/must own 90 - 81 = good/worth checking out 80 - 71 = just okay/has a fair share of flaws 70 - 61 = bad/not reccommended 60 and below = terrible/avoid at all costs
Jayden Sanders
no shit. that games success was 100% due to the box art
Adam Peterson
Except it isn’t realistic at all, a 50% implies it is half decent and half of the game is good.
Ayden Brown
Yes and any rating scale will fall prey to it. Specifics strengths and weaknesses are much more effective.
Jordan Ortiz
Yes.
Andrew Gray
the 1-10 scale makes perfect sense if you interpret it as an A-F academic grading scale. why don't these idiots get that?
Brody Bennett
ET isn’t even that bad for 6 weeks of work in the early 80s, it’s more boring than anything.
Andrew Roberts
So 9-10 is A 7-8 B And so on so forth?
Ryan Ortiz
yes
Leo Rivera
He’s correct
Jack Cruz
So what's C+ and what's B- ?
Jackson Brooks
If I don't want to spend my time and money on a game that's not a 10, but reviewers insist on rating every game a 10 so they don't lose sales, I'm just going to stop giving any attention to reviews.
Carson Gonzalez
The problem is you only playing games you hear are a 10/10
Mason Robinson
if you want to add decimals, then 7.9 and 8.0-8.2, respectively
Jacob Torres
I want to play the best possible games. Devs know that so they try to make the best possible games. This breeds innovation and betterment. “Games journalists” are all fags with no journalism skills.
if you went skydiving and your instructor told you your chute had a 50% success rate, you wouldn't consider that to be an average, or acceptable, rating
Wyatt Hall
How can one man make such an awful game and yet still be so based?
Chase Cruz
That’s why redundencies exist
Camden Allen
Good thing he's not risking his life by buying a videogame, just maybe find a flawed good game.
Brandon Wood
>using a life death analogy Dumbass
Colton Gomez
Good god.
Caleb Bell
>Romans vs Barbarians >Dark Ages, nothing happened >Renaissance, then we got cars and planes. >Stuff was going on in China and Japan, too >US got Independence, had Civil War over slavery. >Lots of big wars in the last century Accurate. That whole article is pretty great.
Then make it a 50 point scale and slice off the 1-50 ranking. Anything currently below a 50 is now a 0 or 1/50. I legitimately can’t think of a game with a sub-50 metacritic score.
Jace Rogers
Though I wonder, what do you consider an acceptable failure rate for parachutes?
Nathan Bailey
Movie reviews aren’t skewed in this direction, though. As well as many of the gaming industry originating out of japan, this argument makes very little sense.
I think it’s more to do with the nature of video-games having technical mechanics that can be incrementally improved on near indefinitely, in a way that’s at least somewhat more object than most other mediums. So a creep starts to occur with the gradual improvement of average quality.
Probably not the only reason, but I’ve always suspected it
Isaac Torres
Reviewers used to be so much more casual. You'd get magazine with funny captions on the pictures. Now they are all a bunch of ego whoring prissies who smell their own farts
Carter Ramirez
What kind of boring ass video games are you playing that don't put your actual life in danger?
Isaac Brooks
>originating out of Japan Atari came before Nintendo
Jaxson Baker
If I went skydiving and he told me it had a 91% success rate, I wouldn't hop out of the plane either, though.
Noah Cooper
If I see a game thats rated 6/10 I investigate where does that -4 come from. low scores are much more insightful than "9/10 nothing wrong with this one chief -IGN"
Benjamin Rodriguez
If a skydiving instructor told me it has a 95% success rating, I still wouldn’t jump out. Shit comparison
Isaac Cooper
Yes americas are dumb as fuck. But why would reviewers be interested in the commercial success of a game?
reminder that if the government worked well 60% of the time everyone would be over the fucking moon
Brandon Davis
Right. It actually runs, it doesn't have any game breaking bugs, and once you understand how to actually play the game it can be somewhat fun. It's by no means the best Atari 2600 game but it's nowhere near the worst and not even the worst first party game.
James Stewart
>see low score >check reasons >they actually make you want to play the game more Feels contrarian man
Yes that’s why I said it didn’t entirely come from there. Im not really a weeb but I don’t think it’s really debated how important Japan was to the start of video games, especially after the first crash.
Andrew Baker
if i got 50% in a class, my dad would be the shit out of me
Asher Kelly
Reminder that, besides the fact that the government in fact sent several people to the moon (and got them back), "the government" is so omnipresent in our lives that its successes are invisible and only its failures stick out. But I guess "the government" failed in your case, since it didn't manage to teach you about inferential fallacies.
Christopher Allen
>he thinks people went to the moon Good goy
Ryder Jackson
...
Hudson Wood
Literally who
Joshua Gonzalez
But most blockbuster movies have shit critical ratings. It's more like video game reviewers have yet to develop a serious critical community like films and literature have, every vidya critic is expendable and nobody really cares about what they have to say.
John Martin
If you're not a 10/10 you're a fucking loser.
Imagine what it feels like to live in a country that isn't the best, where not being the best is acceptable. What a pathetic existence that must be.
