post perfect scores that didn't deserve it

>>715949445 (OP)
Literally all of them. The highest score any game should get is 9.5
Any outlet that gives 10's doesn't deserve any amount of authority over their specialization.

I don't even know what scores they got but TLOU and TLOU2

>>715949594
Then all that would mean is the max score is a 9.5. Every review score should have a max quality.

>>715949445 (OP)
>It might not be pretty-
Sounds like a complaint, therefore it's not 10/10.

>>715949445 (OP)
>BioShock Infinite
>Dragon Age II
>Skyrim
>Mass Effect 3
>Psychonauts 2
Reviewers have no taste.

>>715949645
Wow, that went right over your head.

>>715950575
No, I think you're just being stupid. If a site only ever tops out at a 9.5, then the highest score is a 9.5. Essentially a 10.

>>715949704
Yeah that one is pretty egregious. What a fucking boring game.

>>715949445 (OP)
BOTW and TOTK.

>>715950153
Psychonauts 2 is either a ten or close to it

>>715951024
It's dogshit.

>>715950821
That’s not the highest score a site can give, that’s the highest score a game can get all together.
If a school had a 100 question test and students all got at least 5 answers wrong, that doesn’t mean the max score is 95, it means the students aren’t perfect.

>>715949594
Most retarded shit gamers say. So a review outlet that uses 4 stars as its score can never use more than 3 and a half stars?

>>715951251
Except if you explicitly find a reason to max out the possible score at 95, then the highest score is 95. If you never go higher then that, then that's the ceiling.

lol imagine caring what journos think about anything at all

goty is the equivalent of 10/10

>>715949660
>Sounds like a complaint, therefore it's not 10/10.
Some people (some, not everyone) consider a 10/10 to be a perfect game WITHIN the limitations of what the authors could achieve realistically.
Is it possible to have better graphics than undertale? Yes.
Would undertale have come out if the author tried to make his game AAA looking? Probably not. That's why some people would give a 10/10, because within the limits of what toby fox can do as an artist, it's a perfect work of art that transmited exactly what toby wanted to erxpress. Do I agree? Not at all, I don't think undertale is a 10/10, but art is subjective you know? As long as you justify it somehow, it has value as a recommendation.
If you asked for a game to be perfect to really have a 10/10 score, then no game would achieve that since no game is perfect. We will never reach 100% graphical fidelity and therefore no game will have perfect graphics, for example.
So to sum it up, if you believe that a game needs to be absolutely perfect in every way to get an 10/10, no game should have that score. But it's not a set in stone metric.

>>715951517
No it's not what the fuk are you talking about?
It just mean it was the best.
The best game in a year with only mediocre releases will still be mediocre. Scores shouldn't be relative to the other games that were released that same year.

>>715950821
>No, I think you're just being stupid.
LMAO

>>715951331
>So a review outlet that uses 4 stars
I would never use such an outlet for reviews.
You can get your access media garbage where ever you wish, retard.

>>715949445 (OP)
The idea of a perfect game is retarded. Reviewers should just rate the game based on how much they liked it and reviewers should be screened to only allow based people with good taste.

>>715951638
shut up faggot

>>715951747
So essentially it's not that you have a problem with a reviewer giving a max score, your retarded autism just doesn't like seeing a game get 10/10. If it gets an A, or 4 stars, two thumbs up, not a problem but to give more than 9.5 crosses the line. You're a moron.

>>715949704
It was above average but the 10s were such obvious shilling it forever sullied the image of the game. Deathloop despite being decent will always be known as that game that got 10s by virtue signalling whities (I like to call this species the Californian Cumskin) because it has two black people on the cover art. Ironically the one good review of this game I've seen that wasn't hilariously exaggerating how good (or bad) it is was made by a black man.

>>715949445 (OP)
The Last of Us franchise.

>>715949445 (OP)
If there's one game I'd definitely consider a masterpiece, then it's Undertale. But it's fine to not enjoy it. I can see how some of the game's elements can be deal-breakers to some people.
>>715951517
I played Gone Home, and it's absolutely not a 10/10 game. In retrospect I'd say I had a mildly positive experience with it, but there were also a lot of moments where I felt bored and even miserable.

>>715951024
It's a mediocre platformer with extremely gay plot for self hating millenials. It's at least three tiers below what could be considered a 10/10.

>>715949594
But by that merit, no game should have 9.5 because now 9.5 is the new "perfect score."
Thus, you have to keep lowering the maximum score until there just plain isn't a score period, because even a 0.1 will be considered "perfection" by the time you get that far down, since it's literally the only metric you can give at that point.

>>715951024
Yeah I'm sure it's great if you love the MCU and every fucking story being about gay superheroes

>>715952054
If 10 out of 10 is simply a masterpiece then there are many imperfect games that deserve it. Some people mistakenly believe 10/10 is a perfect score and the game couldn't be improved any further in any meaningful way.
Perfection doesn't exist and nobody expects it anyway. Even Kubrick didn't consider his films perfect. Good enough goes a long way.

>>715949594
Don't worry. It actually goes to 11. They just hide it because nothing is perfect.

Nobody remembers Gone Home?

>>715949704
I really liked it but then again I got it for free on EGS.

>>715949445 (OP)

>>715951573
I feel like a 10/10 game is one you finish and think "gosh, I'm trying to think of just one negative and I can't.". 10/10 implies it's perfect and perfection doesn't even cast doubt in someone's mind. So to say "This game is perfect except for X issue" is a misuse of the 10/10 moniker.

>>715953657
if you believe that a game needs to be perfect in order to get a 10/10 score, then no game is a 10/10 because no game is perfect
which game has perfect graphics?
which game has perfect music?
what does that even mean?
does undertale, undoubtedly one of the best soundtracks in any game, have a perfect soundtrack?
see, to say 10/10 is perfection is a little too harsh because it means it can't be attainable, which makes it meaningless

>>715953782
Ideally things get better over time. So a game can be a 10/10 at some point because it's the best the genre currently has to offer. In the future, though, something could supplant that and take its place as the best the genre has to offer, bumping down its score relatively.

>>715953782
Then games should be rated based on an overall rating of each feature. Gaming magazines used to do it way back when which is why you never saw a perfect score even for games most publications are hasty in calling 10/10. Perfect does, infact, mean it needs to be perfect in all those regards. To dismiss it by saying it's unreachable is fine, it lets companies know they were close to a perfect score and should strive harder in achieving it next time.

>>715953985
>Ideally things get better over time
they do?
does a game with hyper realistic graphics look better than an old game with stylized graphics?
is a game with good sound quality better in that aspect than a game with 8-bit music, even if the second game has lots of good catchy tunes that you will remember for the rest of your life while the first game has atmospheric but forgettable music?
Also, it's very unfair to say that only the games that match the current technological standards can be a 10/10, specially for indie games.
For all this is that I believe that a 10/10 doesn't need to be perfect or even up to thechnological standards. It just need to accomplish well what it tried to be.

>>715954191
>they do?
Ideally, yeah.
>does a game with hyper realistic graphics look better than an old game with stylized graphics?
Depends on what the game is trying to depict. Pretty environments like you'd see in Assassin's Creed games can certainly depict a lot more for the eye compared to classics like Tomb Raider.
>Also, it's very unfair to say that only the games that match the current technological standards can be a 10/10, specially for indie games.
I didn't say it has to match up technologically, though.
>For all this is that I believe that a 10/10 doesn't need to be perfect or even up to thechnological standards. It just need to accomplish well what it tried to be.
I agree, it just has to be the best example of its genre.

>>715949525
FPBP

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>>715954460
>cringingly

>>715952054
>If there's one game I'd definitely consider a masterpiece, then it's Undertale
Just because you were 13 when you first played it doesn't make it a masterpiece

>>715954460
Have it on PS4 and it takes, no joke, a solid 5 minutes to load.

What the fuck were they on about?

>>715949704
I'll never forgive this game for winning best art direction over Psychonauts 2.

>>715955523
I dont even think the game is bad, but I get irrationally angry when I see people actually praising it. It was "so good" they moved on from developing it 6 months after release and everyone stopped playing it , it was "such a success" that they made no more content for it and DD is actually dead for real now. Keystone franchise my ass. Fucking Exoprimal got more DLC in its lifetime and Kunitsugami got an expansion.

>>715955523
They were having a blast.

>>715949445 (OP)
Literally 99% of all Nintendo games that got it

>>715949594
>>715949645
>>715952164
Actual problem is half the fucking scale is basically unused as everything 1 to 5 is treated the same. If your game got 5/10 it's already considered shit. You're not in school anymore, kids. There is no pass or fail here meaning AVERAGE game is exactly a 5 out of 10.

>>715949704
Didn't Concord get a bunch of 10s too?

>>715956221
most games deserve the average score, but no one talks about average scores or reviews. you need drama, controversy to get those clicks.

>>715949445 (OP)
Dude Overwatch is a heckin 10 out of 10 years past its prime because you can pick so many characters that totally didnt kill the game!

>>715956221
6 is also in danger of getting the same treatment

>>715949445 (OP)
Problem is people think these reviews matter. You, yes YOU, are just as qualified to post a review as those people are because are no qualifications involved to be a video game reviewer. If you're looking for reviews go to people who cover that particular type of game. As amusing as it might I don't particularly care what a FIFA fan has to say about the latest Final Fantasy, for example.

>>715949445 (OP)
E33
BG3

>>715956808
I think there's some value to the perspective of a professional reviewer. Specifically it's that it's a perspective of someone who plays a lot more games than the average person, because it's their job. So for example, you may not be aware that a game is extremely derivative, straight up plagiarizing something else, or whether it's very original. And it's something that you can learn from the perspective of someone who plays a lot of games of a wide variety. There's of course the issue of credibility, because the reviewer may not be truthful for various reasons, but it's something that you can glean from the consistency of their voice.