GAME REVIEW SCORING METHODS ARE FLAWED
(Posted 2007-06-29 21:54:21 by basscomm)

Scores that games get at various news sites influence their sales.
Developers are sometimes dissatisfied with low scores, because or this.
Mitch Gitelman, who worked on the latest _Shadowrun_ game, is one of them.
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"According to OXM's scale, a 7.0 indicates a game that has a lot of things
going for it, but still has a few major issues, or something that limits
its appeal. That's fine for OXM, but an arbitrary value like that means
different things to different people. I don't think a 7.0 is a game that
deserves my attention, and I'm pretty positive that most people feel the
same way. The Xbox 360 version of Shadowrun is hovering around 70.3% on
review score aggregators like GameRankings.com, and that number means
radically different things to developers, reviewers, and consumers."
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It's tough to see a game (or anything that you've poured a huge amount of
yourself into) get raked over the coals. So I can empathize. Though a 70%
is hardly abysmal, it's still C- territory. I'm not going to detail why I
think reviews are flawed, I've beaten that horse so many times I'm starting
to get tennis elbow.

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