How do you rate your grames? Do you use a 1-5 scale? 1-10? Something more qualitative? Or do you not rate them at all?
Discuss all this and more in the posts below….
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that’s to be expected i.e. participation bias though
also should I join backlogged?
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You’ll see this on most public rating aggregate sites since so many people are willing to call something “their favorite” or “perfect” or so on than people who ruminate and say “this is almost there but just barely not.” Many many accounts in this world where like 50% of their ratings are perfect 5 stars. As a completely random example, here’s the ratings of Solaris on Letterboxd (not to say anything of the quality of the film (I have given it a perfect 5 stars) but just as a matter of demonstrating rating psychology):
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This is why I wish the world would switch to my controversial 4 star rating system:
- Zero stars - not recommended
- 1 star - recommended
- 2 stars - strongly recommended
- 3 stars - significant
- 4 stars - masterpiece
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Roger Ebert did it first. How dare you sit where he sat and call yourself a king
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There was a website I found once (cannot find it immediately at the moment; will dig deeper later) that had a blurb on every single PC Engine game with a rating of 0-3:
- Do not engage under any circumstance
- Not worthless
- Pretty good time
- The best ever
This has stuck with me for a long time. Anything else really does seem superfluous
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My cousin’s husband followed me on letterboxd and his profile had his “perfected rating system” in it. It was like
4 stars = a must watch
And so on. His reviews were terrible and he hated everything he watched.
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The supreme rating system is 5. All the best games get a 5 to signify them as all-timers. Everything else, from great to garbage, are without rating. This is because they don’t need ratings. Reject the circle of pessimism, disliking things is a performative behavior that afflicts your outlook on the world, incentivicing you to needlessly focus on negatives in all aspects of life.
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I have a friend who rejects negativity, anger and sadness. He only wants positivity and happiness in his life. Anything less is failure. He is miserable.
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yall need to expand your minds to a system from -2 thru +2
-2 active detriment
-1 bad
0 neutral
1 good
2 great
but also i just like hearing folks thoughts. journal more!
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I also know a long haired guy with some wild ideas and didn’t always do what other people thought. You know, he used to drive that blue car.
I give every movie I watch a five on letterboxd. I just want to congratulate it for being witnessed.
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There are different degrees of this. I just find it a waste of energy to be overly particular about video games.
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i do not care about rating games on a 5 star system at all.
if it functioned more like tabelog i might entertain it (where a 3.2 is a fairly great score for a restaurant and a 3.8 is incredible).
Restaurants are rated according to certain categories, but the actual weighting is secret and you can also be a ‘power user’ with expertise in certain cuisines and neighbourhoods or genres, so your score will be weighted more.
Food (dishes), Service, Atmosphere, Cost Performance (“Value”) and Drinks
Now that I’ve typed this out I realise i barely care about aggregated review scores at all, but it’d be interesting to theorise what these would be for games.
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i just want to point out that this is how the 1-5 star rating system functions today
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it is but this styling allows a number to be meaner
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hmmm i suppose we are both trying to reclaim the 1 star as a badge of glory
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If someone received a star in real life, they’d be a damn millionaire
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