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Originally Posted by Dean
Everything must be taken in perspective.
And just like the Olympics, you can't just take one judge's view. Throw out the high and the low and take the average of the others.
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Exactly. Its obvious that everyone has different likes and dislikes when it comes to games. Just like if Scott were to say to me "Hey they just released Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Simulator 3.0 and I'm gonna go pick it up on my lunch break!". I wouldn't care what ratings it got because I think all flight simulators are boring as hell. Does my thinking make Scott's feelings or review of the game any less valid? No. Its the same with movies and TV shows. I loved the movie Kung Pow and I laugh hard every time I see it but, my wife will actually leave the room if its on TV. Game and movie ratings are worth absolutely nothing unless you know who is giving the rating and if they have the same tastes as you.
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Originally Posted by sperry
if it's perfect, that implies the game has perfect replayability... i.e. you should be able to play it forever without getting tired of it, no?
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No. Just because a game gets a "perfect score" doesn't mean that you will be able to play it endlessly. Look at
Portal for example. I would give that game a 10 and yet I lost most all interest once I beat the game. I wouldn't even say that a 10 means perfection. To me or IMO, I feel that a 10 rating simply means that you cant find anything worth complaining about. That doesn't mean that the game can't be improved upon or changed to make it better.