@jump That is true, and I do get your point (I always found the upwards skew quite baffling myself) but it would require the whole gaming media to jump onto the same standards.
I think functionally we already have your scale somewhat covered:
5 Stars, those great games that will forever appear in the best ever lists - 9s and 10s
4 Stars, excellent game 8
3 Stars, a mixed bag or good but unremarkable game 7
2 Stars, poor games or with heavy flaws 5s and 6s
1 Stars, rubbish games or broken unplayable messes. 4 and lower
How a reviewer tells the difference between a 4 and a 1 though? I have no clue.
@Zuljaras I found The World Ends with You great myself, the combat was really fun. Having an engaging combat system is something that is missing from most turn based RPGs I find, theres so many times I will just press the same attack over and over without thinking.
Tbh your avatar isn't even that different to the demons you find in Persona/SMT, there's loads but I randomly linked a few below;
@Zuljaras I saw after posting it and I've edited it now. It's a shame there's not a preview post thing on this site as this forum is so funny with posting pics at times.
@Zuljaras There's a fair amount of that for sure. I think it has to so with game design. You progress through a calender year as a student and that naturally imposes a limitation on what you're able to do in the game (hang out with person a or b, dungeon crawl or work a part time job). That's a large portion of the content. Another area of significance is the combat. You fight demons, and the demons have personalities and can be persuaded to join you. Piss em off and they'll keep fighting back. Demons you have acquired can be fused to create new ones. The designs are really creative and usually have some basis in myth or fantasy lore.
@Losermagnet You just need to copy the image address and then put it in between these [ img ] [ /img ] but take over the spaces between the brackets and "img". Now you can post all the penis demons you want!
@Losermagnet@jump So you are telling me that the game is deep with mythology and that the anime cringe is only on the front. Hmmmm I have to research it some more. I was quite turned off by the whole "high school student, codenamed Joker" ...
Also I am assuming that the game is loved by so much as it is one of the top rated games for the PS Vita and because many gamers cry why Persona 5 (I think) is NOT on the Switch.
@Zuljaras You'd be better off from trying Shin Megami Tensei rather than Persona (Persona is a spin off from SMT) as it's got a darker look and feel comapred to Persona I think you may like, both are great though. However Hitler is a bad guy in one of the Pesona games and is yet to apear in SMT so maybe Persona wins out.
People are talking about Persona 5 specificly as it's the game that has really broken through into the mainstream compared to the other games.
@jump ah, thanks. Im at work now so I'll have to see what I can conjure up later.
@Zuljaras Hm....yes and no. It's still basically a role playing emulation of a high school student who defeats evil with the bonds of friendship. It runs a bit deeper than that but you get the idea. It benefits greatly from being part of the long-running Shin Megami series. As @jump put it, they lean more towards supernatural/horror RPGs and all of the games seem to reuse designs and themes from older games. Persona just "scooby doo-efies" them by like 30%.
15 years later, Metroid Prime Hunters is still the best game to come from the Metroid Series. (Happy 15 year Anniversary)
Since Wii Fit Trainer is a playable character in Smash, I do think Ring Fit Trainer should be one of the last two characters for Fighters Pass 2 if it really is the last batch of DLC for Ultimate.
Super Mario Sunshine will always be up there with the best of Super Mario due to its world building.
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@jump
I prefer using 100 rating for scoring my games. With 100 as maximum score, i can interpret some games quality in specific reasons.
For example, i rated Portal Knights PS4 = 92/100, The Sims 4 PS4 = 95/100, Dragon Quest Builders 2 PS4 = 96/100, BOTW = 60/100, Super Mario Galaxy 1 & 2 = 65/100, Ratchet & Clank a Crack in Time PS3 = 80/100, etc.
But if i really love the game so much and really exceeding my expectations, i can give more than 100 scores.
Surely the rating is just meant to be the TL;DR at the end of the review?
If you want to know what caveats there are to any recommendations you get, there's no substitute to reading the review. And while we're at it, reviews shouldn't just be dry breakdowns of how the game fares against a bunch of criteria; I want to read strong opinions, and if the writers can put these forward in an engaging fashion with a narrative that runs the length of the review, a heck of a lot less people would just skip to the scores at the end of them.
Sorting games by review scores, particularly aggregated ones like on Metacritic, seems particularly egregious to me. I'll usually just go on there and read the ones that give it the lowest scores to see if they've got a convincing argument as to why I shouldn't get the game. Sometimes they succeed, sometimes not. Surviving that test is generally going to tell you far more about a game than a swathe of 90%, 5/5, and triple thumbs up scores.
@Anti-Matter you’re actually demonstrating why I dislike how scoring is done in 10/10 just on a bigger scale. You’ve given both Galaxy games 65/100 when there’s literally 99 other options they could have been. They can’t both be exactly 65 as there’s differences between them like Galaxy 1s hub world and Rosalina side story not having an equivalent in Galaxy 2 as well as examples that work the other way. So rather than carefully weighing them up to give an accurate scoring you just lumped both as exactly 65 like how most reviewers also do it. So if it’s not gonna be given careful consideration of using the full scale then just use a simpler scoring method of out of 5 so it’s easier to place.
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