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PiOverlord posted...

I do think score inflation is a worthy thing to talk about.

I remember when GameSpot very rarely gave out 10's, but I think sometime in the 2010's, they just started giving them out like candy on Halloween.

You could argue games have gotten better, I mean, sure. Still, I think it's partially our fault. We need to dial it back a little; I don't see movies needing a 9+ avg. to be considered good, yet we do that to games. I'm pretty sure most great movies are in the 7+ range, and good movies are like 6+. A movie getting an 8+ is a pretty worthy score.

Really depends on how you score. I know a lot of people base it on school grades. That's how critical game scoring seems to generally go. If you got a 50 on a term paper, it didn't mean you wrote a decent report that had lots of good and bad to it. It meant you solidly failed, but you like used proper formatting and at least turned in something resembling a paper.

So it depends on if you're scoring a game on an individual level out of 100, or if you're scoring it in comparison to all other games like it. "This hits 60% of what I consider for a game to be an all-time great" vs. "This is better than 60% of action rpgs"