[General Discussion] Video game review reform idea.

Originally Posted by The Dopefish

I was thinking about this for a few days, and I came to the conclusion that video games are a little too conservatively reviewed. Here's what I was thinking: for any successive game in a series (ex: Madden, or GTA), if it isn't a significant improvement from the predecessor (graphically or gameplay-wise, like GTA3 was to GTA2) then there should be a half-point deduction for each successive game (so, by the time San Andreas came out it should have had a full point deduction levied against it). This way, video game reviewers could be more responsible for recommending games.

Sounds like a pretty good idea, but what about the idea of using hindsight to see a game for what it is whether or not its an original or the 5th game in a series, or whatever? I don't know if the reviewers think of them as games for themselves and rate them as such. Perhaps not because of how often they like to compare games to other ones in reviews.

But I dunno. While I'm here: Hockey rules, Dopefish

Jam it back in, in the dark.

I wonder if games should be rated among seperate aspects. For example, I will review Final Fantasy VI right now:

GAMEPLAY: 9/10 STORY: 8/10 SOUND/MUSIC: 10/10 OTHER: 8/10

But I think it would be a bad idea to add 9 + 8 + 10 + 8 (equals 35) and divide by 4 because for some people gameplay matters more and for other people storyline is the most important thing to them. So 8.75 would be the wrong score.

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