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22Jun 07
November 1st of last year I put GameSpot reviews on notice and ridiculed futured reviews at every chance.
Well, to steal another thing from Steven Colbert...
I DID IT!!!
GameSpot is overhauling its review system for the first time in 11 years. It's going from the pretty broken weighted formula to the entirely subjective pick-a-score .5 interval system.
So what does this mean for future GameSpot reviews? Simple -- we will have no idea what they're talking about.
If you look back at my complaints about the Baten Kaitos Origins review, you'll see that the reviewer had called the visuals and AUDIO worse than Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean, which is completely absurd, and you know what, I will call that a fact.
So if the reviewer no longer has to give a score to those individual sections? We'll have no idea what the hell they were thinking when they gave it the score they did. I'm aware of the text in the review -- I'm the first to say not to just complain about the score itself -- but there needs to be a way to tell the relative harm to the game that different faults bear. If the review states problems with the controls and the gameplay and it scores a 7.5, whose to say how minor either one was? What about the value of the game, were the modes enough to make it worthwhile? Is that what brought the score down?
Outside of any non-excellent game is the time in which a review really matters and that's where there are going to be faults in all areas of the game. If there's no gauge as to how much each of those bears on the review score, what does that score matter at all?
Well, to steal another thing from Steven Colbert...
I DID IT!!!
GameSpot is overhauling its review system for the first time in 11 years. It's going from the pretty broken weighted formula to the entirely subjective pick-a-score .5 interval system.
So what does this mean for future GameSpot reviews? Simple -- we will have no idea what they're talking about.
If you look back at my complaints about the Baten Kaitos Origins review, you'll see that the reviewer had called the visuals and AUDIO worse than Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean, which is completely absurd, and you know what, I will call that a fact.
So if the reviewer no longer has to give a score to those individual sections? We'll have no idea what the hell they were thinking when they gave it the score they did. I'm aware of the text in the review -- I'm the first to say not to just complain about the score itself -- but there needs to be a way to tell the relative harm to the game that different faults bear. If the review states problems with the controls and the gameplay and it scores a 7.5, whose to say how minor either one was? What about the value of the game, were the modes enough to make it worthwhile? Is that what brought the score down?
Outside of any non-excellent game is the time in which a review really matters and that's where there are going to be faults in all areas of the game. If there's no gauge as to how much each of those bears on the review score, what does that score matter at all?
- Posted Jun 22, 2007 7:29 pm PT
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