Man, everybody complaining that they need to go to a 100 point scale really don't get it. They just got away from the 100 point scale...it was just in decimal form before. It was dumb. It was trivial trying to split a game between a 8.6 and an 8.7...it's the same as giving a game a 86 or an 87. I'm glad they are simplifying it. The decimal point system is trivial. Even then, the score is just there to appease the people that are too lazy to read. If it bothers you that much to see a score go to whole numbers, then there are plenty of sites out there that have meaningless decimal point systems for you to drool over. The rest of us will stick to reading information about the games.chicknfeetThe original 100 point system held more weight and meaning behind it. The final score wasn't given out by the reviewer but what they rated each category of the game. The reviewer would put in score in like 4 or 5 categories such as game play and graphics on a 1-10 scale. The weight of each category was not equal. One point in game play weighed more than 1 in graphics for example. The total of all the categories is what gave a game its score. For a numbered review system it was by far the best IMO. That was also back in a time when really passionate people were running the site. GameSpot used to have a rep for doing their own thing and doing it well. Now its just another gaming site with no identity.
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