Gamespot should switch to a 5-point scoring scale

**** the scoring system. I pay no attention to it. Continue it or not, idgaf. Best to watch gameplay videos, impressions by non-pro reviewers and playing demos.

They should scrap the 5-point system and use a 2-point system : Recommended or Not Recommended. Let's face it - anything in between is trivial and pointless.

Honestly, gamespot reviews are riddled with politics and click bait and I've no respect for them. But when it comes to reviews the less precise the scoring the better. Switch to a percentage and you get constant bickering because such and such game got 89% instead of 90%. Switch to out of 10 and people complain because of inconsistencies.

Write a good review (out of bounds for the likes of O' Shea) and give us a thumbs up or down. I'll read it and form my own opinion. I know gaming and trust most forum users much more than the reviewers who are either paid up by companies or looking for attention.

I really cant do any better than this...

lol... fair enough

For SW sake, go back to the 100 point scale. Nothing better than a game getting an 8.9 and seeing the rage that ensues. For GS sake, well, who the hell cares?

Carolyn is a feminist and brings it to her reviews when they don't need to be there

Kevin is an idealist trying to change the way we look at games

Tom is a bad troll

Every site should use a 5 point system. It's the only one that make sense.

I liked the really old way games were reviewed here, with graphics and game play etc all broken down and scored on individually. Man those were good times

Wouldn't happen.

You would need a site that could first get the kind of traffic to get away with doing reviews where there is no score. And then letting that kind of criticism start influencing other people. But at the end of the day the real issue isn't the scoring systems themselves(okay, maybe any of them that are over 10 points, those are just overkill), but mostly the way criticism of a videogame is done or accepted.

Who gives a shit? No matter how many or how few numbers its still a numerical system assigned to give a game a score. What does it matter if a game gets a 3 or a 50? They both mean the exact same thing. At least with 100 you get a broader range.

But still it all boils down to its some random stranger on the internet opinion and means nothing to me.