Mod74 wrote:I'm confused. It's time to drop review scores because a licensed stocking filler based on a TV show turns out to be pish?
Sasukekun wrote:I wouldn't class something that would cost £39.99 a stocking filler.Mod74 wrote:I'm confused. It's time to drop review scores because a licensed stocking filler based on a TV show turns out to be pish?
Elmlea wrote:Scores are great. Â The text of the review generally goes towards justifying the score so I think you need both. Â I also don't get why Family Guy being shit means we need to change our mind over scores?
JonB wrote:I find scores have a use, but the exploitation of them has become too great. It would be worth seeing them go just to get rid of all the ridiculous publicity business that surrounds them. It would be harder to buy reviews, devs wouldn't be rewarded for aiming at metacritic scores that mostly reflect the thoughts of mediocre reviewers, and mags/games sites couldn't live off throwing around 'controversial' numbers. I like knowing that Edge gave this game a 7 and this one a 9 just to get a general measure, but that's all it should be. And unfortunately it isn't.
Sasukekun wrote:With the new Family guy game getting a panning, and Official XBox Magazine's rather damming 'Choose Your Own Review Content' review, is it time that magazines dropped this rather archaic practice altogether? Yes I understand some people feel 'safe' with review scores. Somehow that number on the end allows them to justify their future (Or in some cases Past) purchase(s). But, for these people, surely writing the review itself is pointless? If they're going to base their purchase on nothing more than a number attributed without reading the reasons why then why not just have a page, with a title, and then a giant number underneath? It's high time magazines ditched that number, and let their words do the talking. Who knows, it might actually help people with their reading skills? I realise that we've done the reviews are subjective argument before. But I felt that this thread would dissolve into the argument once again (either that or a new sandwich discussion), and decided to just base the whole thing around it.
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