A 7/10 is basically a complete failure, so why didn’t reviewers take my feelings into account before publishing their scores?

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    1 year ago

    But it’s not based on any educational system. That’s just the spin people erroneously attribute to it. It’s just a percentage, and it’s up to each person to figure out what number works for them or not as an acceptable minimum.

    Same with movies, another commenter said a 5/10 movie was good enough for them sometimes, whereas for me the lowest enjoyable is a 6.

    All that is fine, what makes no sense is to expect others to have the same standards I do.

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      1 year ago

      My preferred approach is to ignore the number/percentage rating entirely, and focus on what the review actually says. Maybe the reviewer is marking it down because of stuff I don’t care about, and the good parts of the game are exactly the things I value highly. Or maybe they’ve given something a 9/10 but the things they love about it are things that would make me hate it. There are so many more important things when deciding if I want to buy and play a game than what overall percentage it was given in reviews.

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        1 year ago

        Ah yes totally, and never stick to a single review. Ratings tend to be accurate when they are the average out of a large pool of ratings