The problem has been steady review-score creep. Games are being compared to previous efforts, rather than being judged on their own merits. As most publishers will improve their titles over time, the scores keep increasing, leading inevitably to crowding at the top scores.
A recent Zero Punctuation review made an excellent point...why should you care about the number at the end of a review? Reviews should point out what the game does well, and what it does not. It should talk about what the game is like, rather than give it some arbitrary rating that is based largely on the taste of that particular reviewer. Would people not buy GTA4 if the review was the same but gave it a 8 or 9? If so, then they're missing the point of it all.
Scores are just fodder for the fanboy wars anyway.
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The problem has been steady review-score creep. Games are being compared to previous efforts, rather than being judged on their own merits. As most publishers will improve their titles over time, the scores keep increasing, leading inevitably to crowding at the top scores.
A recent Zero Punctuation review made an excellent point...why should you care about the number at the end of a review? Reviews should point out what the game does well, and what it does not. It should talk about what the game is like, rather than give it some arbitrary rating that is based largely on the taste of that particular reviewer. Would people not buy GTA4 if the review was the same but gave it a 8 or 9? If so, then they're missing the point of it all.
Scores are just fodder for the fanboy wars anyway.