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Well, that's a good sign. Can't wait to hear about the combat being more atrocious than G3 too.

For video games the /10 scale is just a /5 scale with the first five points given for free.

0/5 =

I have never understood the number shit. Don't give me a number, don't write a fucking walkthrough. Give me the straight shit on the core competencies of a game
Controls only warrant a mention if they are substandard or somehow novel.

then rescale because you cant just have
0 to 5 = nothing
and 5 to 6 , 6 to 7 suddently have value.
i know it may be difficult to understand what scale is for burgerland who even in "science" use °F but still …
be abble to say that 1/5 = 6/10 instead of 2/10 really makes me want to give you bleach .

No scientist in America uses Farenheit unless they're talking to laypersons. Farenheit is a more useful temperature scale for laymen due to a higher degree of resolution.

I'm not saying that's the way I do it, I'm saying that's what video game reviews have turned into over the course of several decades of degradation.
/5 is the perfect scale.
The /2 or /3 scales are also good. (Not recommended, Recommended, Highly recommended)

Problem is that excludes enthusiasts. If I wrote reviews I wouldnt boil it down to a simplistic little quip. I'd write a proper summery of the game's features, and let the reader decide their own rating for themselves

Well no shit that's the better method. I don't think you're following the discussion here if you think we're saying the arbitrary numbering system is a good thing.

Would rather want a real Gothic 4 than this. The Fallout look/art style just doesn't do it for me.
Piranha Bytes went down hill after Risen 1.

it does not. and that's total BS.
It still bugs me why burgerland still use °F … when :
his low temperature is the one registered in january or febuary 1709 from fahrenheit's shitty home village.
His high temperature is the temperature of the blood of his horse,
And the gap between this low and high temperature are arbitrary subdivided by by 12 and then by 8 … WHAT THE FUCK ? how retarded is this? (meaning his hight temperature is 12*8 => 96°F)

could be fun thought: let me set up your new temperature scale
the °user
were the lowest temperature is taken from the temperature of my fridge, Now. (~4°c)
and the high temperature will be the boiling point of mercury (356.6°c)
and like fahrenheit, for the gap between my low and high temperature, i will subdivide it by 17 and each 17th i will subdivide in 11.
so 4.2°c = 0 °user
356.7°c = 187 °user

but i digress.

like a said above that's stupid. why not just
Like / Dislike while you are at it ?
for me /20 is perfect it isn t so bit (like /100 were one point is almost nothing) but it isn t too short.
but you do not improve anything by reducing the "resolution" of the rating.
just look at steam reviews…

althougth a game should have a global rating : it must have subdivision.
rating the lifespand, the story, the music etc … are as important as rating how it all mix together. a game can have a shitty lifespand but still be awesome but still be amazing. you can even rate it based on the previous on the series.
If game were rated like that, you wouldn t live on world were a DA:I is concidered a good game