Topic: Video Game Review Systems

I skip to the bottom too. But more to check if I actually want to read the review. I dont want to read a review that got a 6 that i wasnt too interested in to begin with. I think numbers help summarize the review and should b added

I always read the review and formulate my own opinion before the conclusion. then I see how their score compares. But my numerical rating based on issues and how they will affect me is more important to me than theirs usually.

Take notes NintendoLife Writers/Reviewers
I feel like GameXplain reviews do so much justice, and go over the entire game I'm glad they made their reviews even BETTER with this new review system it takes out all the pointless fanboys going "BUT I WANTED A 10/10 NOT A 9/10 THIS REVIEW SUCKS"

the review scores should be only 1 and 0
1 for good
0 for bad

I just saw the same video XD

It's definitely an interesting topic that already passed by on NL over and over, but still didn't get a solution.
A big prove is that right now there are lots of comments around the articles here complaining why Kirby and Yoshi got low scores; no complain about what the reviewers said, no mention on which part of the review is "wrong", just a complain the score is low.

I personally always read the text of a review, numbers are just a quick recap for me, but lots of people seem to only scroll to the stars and their number is enough for decide if buy or avoid a game (and even judge the review's quality ^^;;; ).

Honestly I would love to say NL should remove scores, on this site there is even already an "alternative to score", which are the -Conclusions-, a perfect quick resume of the review that can give a fast recap when the readers doesn't need all the details, just wish a fast answer to the question"Is it good or bad for you guys?", BUT the score system is very radicated into the gaming industries and unavoidably also in this site history, so what sound like a cool possibility to me and a great new way for Gamexplain could not be a positive change for NL maybe and most probably also for reasons I can't even imagine since I don't know the behind the scenes of sites like NL >_>;

I would find interesting personally if this site could try to change system (and forgive me, but I would love even more to witness the mess coming out of such decision XD), but I know it could not be that easy to do such experiment and maybe it's even something most people don't want to see even between the staffs of the site, so I just add my opinion here and whatever will happen it will be fine for me.

Scores or not I'll keep reading the reviews, so I just hope this site will keep having the high text quality in them with which it spoiled us

I think Famitsu's is the best scoring system. 4 opinions are better than 1 because it means that the extremes are balanced out.

(And normally if they like something as a group of four the chances are I will. I used a bit of past data to determine this).

The games I seem to like the most are the ones where a large proportion of people hate the game.

I would like it if the out now had some relation when it comes to things in genres that the consensus of all the Nintendo Life staff at the moment recommends.

Review scores are dumb IMHO. I wouldn't mind seeing them go. Maybe then we can actually have higher standards of review writing and videos since people will actually pay attention to the writen review.

True enough, in all honestly I was being generic for not make even longer my post ^_^;
Of course there are also many people which elaborates why they disagree with a review, addressing what actually the review said than the score itself, but I still have the feeling most times the comments are not of that high and respectable quality...

Too often we read comments like the once you mentioned which compare scores between games and often those scores are from different reviewers which reviewed totally different kind of games. Placing the score value over the games' own identity and the fact reviewers are different people is a total miss of the real point @.@;

Anyway I don't need to say more since I simply totally agree with all you said

The most useful functions of this site should be the out now and coming soon lists however they are the least useful.

Looking at the numbers gives a completely wrong picture. (Only way is to read everything which I would rather not do).

I personally hope the way games are reviewed change throughout time. Old systems go obsolete, and new ones will always appear.

When a game I'm interested in is being reviewed, I look for a conclusion first. If the game is really mediocre (4-6/10), I tend to skip the review. But if it's any other score, I'm reading everything, and then I look for at least 3 more reviews to compare the first one to. That gives me a good outline to determine wether I'll get the game or not.

Absolutely. There's no good reason to summarize any good reviews into one or few words. An elaborate summary works much more efficiently by reminding the audience of previous statements while shortening them to the core arguments, but without changing the general impression.