ORIGINAL: Rampage99

This apparently is the year of the perfect scores...

Yeah, I wrote something about that at another forum too. It seems as if reviewers will only need a scoring system from 9 to 10 soon ;) I think that too many games get high scores these days. It has gotten to the point where an 8 is almost considered to be a lesser game although it should be great one. And everything over 9 should be something extraordinary or inovative then.

Perhaps practice makes perfect.

ORIGINAL: Agent Ghost

This apparently is the year of the perfect scores...

If no game is perfect then why use 10 at all? Why not 1-9, using your logic? Clearly some games deserve a 10. MGS4 is one of those games.

That wasn' t implied as saying the game doesn' t deserve it. I have no problem with giving a game a perfect score. It just surprises me how frequently they are being handed out now.

This just goes to show how outdated and useless percentile and digit based scores are.

ORIGINAL: Nitro

Perhaps practice makes perfect.

Heh, yeah but I still think that they have been giving too many high scores for quite a while. Some get scores that revolutionary games in the past got. And while these new ones may excel at many things and are very good games they often aren' t as groundbreaking for example. It' s kind of weird then to see those games get better average scores than some of those classics.

But I don' t care that much about scores in the end though. I usually go after the general feel of reviews and watch some trailers and screenshots.

If no game is perfect then why use 10 at all? Why not 1-9, using your logic? Clearly some games deserve a 10. MGS4 is one of those games.

Actually OXM uses a 1-11 scale.

11: Perfect

The unicorn. Will never happen. Never.
10: Classic

One of those rare and very best of games. Every Xbox gamer simply must buy it and play it, whether or not they’re a fan of the genre.
9.0 or 9.5: Awesome

Very impressive. One of the best games around. May have a few minor problems, but they’re small and very easily tolerated.

----Editors’ Choice is 9.0 & above----
8.0 or 8.5: Great

A great game and an A-list title, but either it either has niche appeal, suffers from minor technical or design issues, or has peripheral problems like a crummy interface.
7.0 or 7.5: Good

Has a lot of good things going for it, but there’s a big problem or two, something that limits its appeal or gets downright annoying. Could also be a game that aims low but hits surprisingly high.
6.0 or 6.5: Decent

An adequate game with something interesting to offer, but it has some truly significant issues. Otaku won’t mind much, but the rest of the world will.
5.0 or 5.5: Mediocre

Very unspecial and average in the worst sense of that word. You can’t pound it for being terrible, but it’s hard to find something to recommend it for.
4.0 or 4.5: Deficient

It has some very serious flaws and problems, but you can play it if you’re interested. It works and does what it sets out to do, but it probably never aimed that high in the first place.
3.0 or 3.5: Wounded

It has some crippling problems and is poorly conceived and designed. You can imagine someone wanting to try it, but not that many people, and they all should rent before they buy.
0.0 – 2.5: Broken

Just really bad. Lacks a single redeeming quality, and/or it’s busted to varying degrees in its design, quality, or basic functionality. No gamer of any stripe should bother.

That wasn' t implied as saying the game doesn' t deserve it. I have no problem with giving a game a perfect score. It just surprises me how frequently they are being handed out now.

I remember when OXM gave its first 10/10 to Fight Night Round 3. Now it seems like it doesn' t take much to earn a 10 from most sites. Unless I' ve missed something, the only games that OXM have rated at 10 are FNR3, Halo 3, Gears, COD4, Bioshock, and Mass Effect.

Bioshock and Halo 3 are not 10s. Bioshock is a 7.5, halo 3 is a 6.

Bioshock and Halo 3 are not 10s. Bioshock is a 7.5, halo 3 is a 6.

Apart from audio issues, what didn' t you like about Bioshock?

Halo... no... can' t say much in it' s defense. Reviewers should wait a month before evaluating games with that much hype, and that' s all I' ve got to say on that matter.

Apart from audio issues, what didn' t you like about Bioshock?

Halo... no... can' t say much in it' s defense. Reviewers should wait a month before evaluating games with that much hype, and that' s all I' ve got to say on that matter.

How about waiting 2 - 3 weeks? ..
Personally, I prefer finishing games 2 - 3 times before reviewing them.

Bioshock and Halo 3 are not 10s. Bioshock is a 7.5, halo 3 is a 6.

I don' t think any of those games(or any game as of right now/ever) deserve even close to a 10, but to say 7.5 and 6 is just insane. IMO, the closest game to a 10 on that list is Mass Effect.

I didn' t have issues with the controls or anything but it gets boring. I love the atmosphere and it' s a technically great game, but they didn' t nail the fun factor at all.

-The story isn' t interesting enough during the game to get me hooked.

-The game is supposed to be open ended but in practice you' re still being led by the nose.

-They didn' t do a good job of combining RPG and FPS elements, you end up with both being watered down.

-No multiplayer, It could have been cool to have some new online game modes. For example they could have done something with the Big Daddys and Little Sisters. Imagine a game mode where you can be any character type in the game with the same abilities. Each with totally different goals. The littel sisters need to harvest atom, Bid Daddys need to protect the little ones, the other characters get points by killing anyone and a lot of points by collecting Atom. This would even work with teams bad guys vs. the humans. The Bad guys (Splicers) have inherent powers/abilities+weapons, while the humans have plasmids+weapons. They could have even made other modes like CTF with a bioshock twist...

They should have made an expansion with multiplayer.

They should have made an expansion with multiplayer.

Unless they were incredibly careful about how they worked it, it would go the same way as F.E.A.R.' s online component. There were rumors about online play for Bioshock 2, but I personally have my fingers crossed for multiplayer cooperative, as opposed to a versus mode.

It wouldn' t hurt to have both.

Well, feast your eyes on Rosemary and Mei Ling!

It seems Rose is all depressed and such, probably have to do with the fact that her boyfriend is now a cyber, badass, who probably doesn' t screw her enough. And Mei Ling, well, she is gown up!

The custscene trailer thing released a while back for this game was super cheesy, like a crappy hollywood action movie that 12 year olds think is cool. Are all of the custscenes in the game like that? Do you guys actually like that crap?

Don' t be mad you still can' t afford a PS3, wipe those tears off your face and get a job.

The custscene trailer thing released a while back for this game was super cheesy, like a crappy hollywood action movie that 12 year olds think is cool. Are all of the custscenes in the game like that? Do you guys actually like that crap?

Yes.

I look forward to watching 90 min cut scenes.

ORIGINAL: Agent Ghost

Bioshock and Halo 3 are not 10s. Bioshock is a 7.5, halo 3 is a 6.

Rubbish. Both are 9' s, although not 10' s. Halo more for online than the campaign (although Forge & theatre are very nice, the multiplayer campaign is tremendous fun). EDF2017 is a 7.5 for me, both of those games are wayyyy better than that.

Both Eurogamer and Edge gave it 8/10 o.o

http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=143797