[General Discussion] Best review scale?

Originally Posted by Hindman

Thanks for the 2 posts so far.

Domino: we break ours down in a way you suggested, I think. Here's one of our reviews. Tell me if it's what you had in mind:
http://www.rpgland.com/games/marvelalliance/review.html

Side: our 1-10 scale goes in .5 incriments. When we just barely started doing reviews, we'd do all decimals, but it got tedius trying to figure what separated a 7.3 from a 7.4, so just simplified it a tid bit.

That seems like a good system. To make it more immediately apparent that 5 is an "average" score how about putting a line right above the reivew #'s box that has a scale from 1-10 and lists 1 as painful, 5 as average, and 10 as the crowning ultimate achievement in gamingdom or some such thing... When I see a 1/10 scale on a gaming site I assume that few if any games ever get 5 or below, even if they are horrible.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Chaotic

Since when was 5 average? I always drew the line at 7... I wouldn't play alot of 5/10 games...

Exactly, which is why I agreed with the original poster:

Originally Posted by speculative

When I see a 1/10 scale on a gaming site I assume that few if any games ever get 5 or below, even if they are horrible.

There's nowhere I can't reach.