I miss super seat so muchAs far as beginning-of-the-podcast ice breakers, I still don't think anything has matched the Super Seat Question or whatever it was called from GT Time. Making someone explain when they'd rather be a Ninja Turtle or Power Ranger, stuff like that.
So happy with the change. I feel like a 20 point scale is much more expressive
Numbers aren't a good expression of anything.
Hugely bummed to see this.
Then you shouldn't mind because it is just that, a number
And obviously they do mean something to the allies because they felt limited
I swear if they lose the stars to go back to the dumb system they had at GT, I'll stop taking their reviews seriously, like with other outlets. The stars, coupled with each star having a descriptor that allows you to think "Oh this reviewer found this game decent/excellent/masterful', is why their reviews are worth a damn. If they lose the stars, they better just lose scores altogether.
(Now that makes two good changes!)
Not the "dumb system they had at GT" but close enough.
Now I won't take their scores seriously. Hell might as well not take the review itself seriously if reviewers themselves reduce their own work to "So what'd you give it? Oh a 8.5 huh?"
And now it seems they're literally just meaningless numbers without a word attached to it. I can go look in the dictionary what "Excellent" and "Masterful" mean but the hell is an "8.5"?
BUT THE CHAT/DISCORD STAR EMOTES
(I'll watch the vid in a bit)
That's my take on it.I liked the star system, but people are stubborn when it comes to review scores. A 3 Star game is not a 6/10 to me, but that is just not how majority see it. Brandon made a good case that the 20 point scale would align their score with that of aggregate sites and would read more clearly to newcomers across the internet that see their review.
Yeah, I said my piece about review scores a couple pages ago. I'm not too happy with them changing to this format, but if it makes the Allies feel better about how their reviews are ultimately perceived then that's all that matters I guess. I still feel like it falls into the territory of trying to distinguish games from one another via a numerical score rather than the text of the review, but that's just my opinion on it. At the end of the day, if they feel more comfortable assigning scores that will translate well to Metacritic and the majority of other outlets' score systems, then that's what they should do because I wouldn't want them to feel uncomfortable about reviewing a game. Personally I wouldn't give a fuck about how people interpret a score that I were to give to a game, but I get it.
At least they didn't go back to the 100 point scale.
True, I guess I just personally wouldn't really care all that much if someone were to do the "multiply by 2" math to my review and interpret it that way if I was using a 5 star system. If they want to consider my 3/5 to be a 6/10 then so be it, I wouldn't consider them to be the same score though.I feel like the whole point of reviewing a game is to communicate how you feel about it to your audience. If the way they were doing it was being misunderstood or misrepresented by a decent number of people, even if it's not EZA's fault (they clearly defined what each number meant), I think changing it is the right move.
You will no longer take a review seriously because they changed a scoring system. Nevermind everything else about the format is the same. Same reviewers, same style of scripts, same editing, but now it uses numbers it's a joke? I find that to be a crazy over reaction.
Sure they are. On their old scale I would have given both Metroid Prime and MGS3 a 5 star review, thus expressing that I absolutely love both games. However I love Prime more than MGS3, and the stars don't allow me to indicate that.Numbers aren't a good expression of anything.
Hugely bummed to see this.
Sure they are. On their old scale I would have given both Metroid Prime and MGS3 a 5 star review, thus expressing that I absolutely love both games. However I love Prime more than MGS3, and the stars don't allow me to indicate that.
That's what the text is for.Sure they are. On their old scale I would have given both Metroid Prime and MGS3 a 5 star review, thus expressing that I absolutely love both games. However I love Prime more than MGS3, and the stars don't allow me to indicate that.