12-06-2015, 02:50 AM
In my humble opinion - why bother having a ten out of ten if you're never gonna hand one out. What is the point.
Nobody's gonna learn anything from that, this isn't school, and the developers don't care what Joe Schmo on the Internet says about their game not being a ten out of ten but still getting a nine. "Oh, well, obviously we can make some improvements, but a nine still means good." Well, duh. Nothing's perfect. So why bother trying when all you can get is a nine? What if every reviewer did this? "Oh, they never hand out tens because tens don't exist. We got a nine though. So obviously we did as good as we can and don't need to try any harder!"
If you're gonna rate something out of ten, have parameters for handing out the ten that don't call for the game being completely flawless. It doesn't necessarily have to be PERFECT to get the best score possible. But don't parade that this golden score doesn't exist for you because it just makes you look like an incredibly-hard-to-please-hardass-about-number-meanings.
Come to think of it, incredibly-hard-to-please-hardasses-about-number-meanings are why I hate numbered scores anyway.
Nobody's gonna learn anything from that, this isn't school, and the developers don't care what Joe Schmo on the Internet says about their game not being a ten out of ten but still getting a nine. "Oh, well, obviously we can make some improvements, but a nine still means good." Well, duh. Nothing's perfect. So why bother trying when all you can get is a nine? What if every reviewer did this? "Oh, they never hand out tens because tens don't exist. We got a nine though. So obviously we did as good as we can and don't need to try any harder!"
If you're gonna rate something out of ten, have parameters for handing out the ten that don't call for the game being completely flawless. It doesn't necessarily have to be PERFECT to get the best score possible. But don't parade that this golden score doesn't exist for you because it just makes you look like an incredibly-hard-to-please-hardass-about-number-meanings.
Come to think of it, incredibly-hard-to-please-hardasses-about-number-meanings are why I hate numbered scores anyway.