I’m all for a standardized review system and I’d start giving all games scores tout suite if there was ever an accurate system. What’s the point of all the numbers if you’re not going to use them? No. Anything under that is fundamentally broken, so you rarely hear about games under a 4 out of 10. To some, 5 out of 10 means it’s functional, but does nothing spectacular. Sure, you can convert fractions and decimals in the same way we convert miles to kilomiles, but the context of each score is different between sites. Then there’s Metacritic pretending to use advanced algorithms to convert, combine, and average them all out while refusing to show its work. There’s 4-star systems and 5-star systems.

Steam has its thumb’s up and thumbs down.

None of us even use the same scale as it is. I’d love it if there was a readily understood rubric, a scale, or a unit of measurement that quantified video games.

There is no standardized process and anyone claiming to be able to do so is a charlatan and a swindler. Review scores are a sham of a mockery trying to quantify opinions. Let’s start off with the painfully obvious. What purpose do they serve? If they are useless then why do we continue to use them? What should we use instead? But the major fall releases of 2023 have gamers, developers, and critics alike wondering once again if we should continue to use review scores. I’m different from the other girls you know. Arguably, for the longest time, refusing to use the same metric of measurement the rest of the industry went by was seen as a quirky choice. It didn’t use them when they were called 2 Minute Reviews on Gameumentary, and I imagine it won’t use them even as they get suspiciously closer to becoming 4 Minute Reviews. 3 Minute Reviews, our short but sweet look at the world of indies, doesn’t use a numeric rating system either. Yahtzee, who I’m sure you’re familiar with, has never taken part in the ambiguous grading of a game in Zero Punctuation, not even when it went by the name Fullyramblomatic, (10 out of 10 name btw). Why Are We Still Using Review Scores? – Transcript This week on Cold Take, Frost tries to figure out why we’re still using review scores.Ĭheck out more recent episodes of Cold Take, including The Hype Train is Running Out of Steam, Armored Core 6 and the ‘Git Gut’ Mentality, and The Problem of Voting With Your Wallets, and Baldur’s Gate 3 Has Caused Quite a Hubbub.

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