Can a flawed game still be a 10/10?
Can a flawed game still be a 10/10?
Andrew Wood
Connor Davis
No, Halo 2 is not flawed.
Chase Carter
Negative
Xavier Butler
I don't think a single game is 10/10
Jonathan Brown
a part of can be but not the whole package
Ryan Hughes
Obviously. A game just has to have enough good to outweigh the flaws to be worth it.
Getting a 10/10 doesn't mean something is literally fucking perfect and without flaw. 10 is just the highest score most places use. Scores depend entirely on what sort of game is released at what time. Something that was worth a high score 20 years ago could easily be total garbage today, like Ocarina of time. At that time of its release, it was 10/10 by most accounts, even with flaws. Now, it would be garbage.
So long is a game is good enough compared to the other stuff around it, or has something incredible unique/special/boundry pushing about it, a 10/10 is a fine score to give, even if it has flaws.
Owen Lopez
If the flaw or flaws are minor and few enough to not detract from the rest of the game being incredible on all fronts.
Connor Reyes
>getting 100% on a test doesn't mean you answered every question correctly
Just because reviewers are retards who don't understand how numbers work doesn't mean it's correct
Noah Perry
No?
Landon Jenkins
Yes. 10/10 means masterpiece not perfection. Perfection is impossible, thus relegating an entire number on the ranking system to something that's unachievable would make no sense.
Jose Peterson
no because flawless, perfect games exist like tetris
Sebastian Richardson
It's the flaws that make them 10/10
Joseph Nelson
>he compares reviewing an aesthetic experience to test problems
Grayson Robinson
No.
Juan Torres
It's a fucking review, not a test you imbecile. What kind of fucking sense does it make to act as though a test with objectively correct answers can be marked in the same way as totally subjective artwork?
So, what, if a company came out with a game, right now, that had 10 times the content of GTAV, a far more in depth story than anything that had ever exist, and a combat system that would make games like Ninja Gaiden piss their fucking pants with shame at how primitive they looked by comparison, along with the best graphics and music ever seen by any game ever yet created, but there was a SINGLE voice actor who SLIGHTLY fucked up a line in the game, does that suddenly mean that the game is no longer worth 10/10? That extremely minor thing takes off an entire point?
You fucking idiot. When it comes to games/movies/artwork, 10/10 doesn't mean literally fucking perfect. It just means it's fantastic in an extreme way.
Eli Young
>review outlet measures their dick using the CM side of the ruler
>calls it inches
American media is fucking cucked and bought out long before anything is released to the public.
Jaxon Brooks
Can we get more foreign reviews of this posted?
Nathan Cooper
Pong is technically a perfect game, but if it came out today and you gave that a 10/10, you'd be a moron, wouldn't you?
Easton Howard
>It's a fucking review, not a test you imbecile
How is a review not a test? You go over the material to find out what is right and what is wrong? That's a test.
Levi Long
ALL media is fucked.
Landon Cruz
Except it's again all subjective, What's wrong can differ from person to person.
Some person could say they love how the voice acting is in a game while I personally could hate it.
Joshua Foster
Because Zig Forums is in truth a small voice against everyone else. And the only words out of that small voice is barely ever creative, just memes, shitposting, or just rancid anger.
No one will listen to it seriously. Plus did anyone REALLY. HONESTLY think that Last of Us 2 would really bomb or that Naughty Dog's building would explode and everyone commit suicide because a leak happened from an angry dev?
Parker Torres
David Moore
yes, and? If you admit the game is flawed but still give a 10/10 that's dumb as fuck. If you think it has no flaws and give it 10/10 that's understandable if the objective aspects of the game are without flaw.
Nolan Smith
No, and I dont get how reviewers dont understand this. 10/10 should be reserved for the very few games that are (on release, obviously) nearly flawless
Dominic Gonzalez
A review is a largely subjective point of view (supported by objective fact usually). What is considered as good or bad depends entirely on the person. A test is something that only has a single objectively correct answer per question (technicalities aside).
You could argue that literally no game in existence is worth a 10/10, because anyone could look at something and go "Yeah, well, I don't like THIS aspect of it". It could be the fantasy game I described before, an impossibly good game like the world have never seen, and even still, there would be people who say "Well, I didn't like the music in this level, so I guess it's not perfect then". But that would be a fucking stupid reason to lower the score.
Pong has no flaws, and delivers exactly what it says it will, but does that suddenly mean it's worth a higher mark than something like DMC5 or whatever, because DMC5 has a single glitch or something? That's retarded.
If a game had enough good qualities, then it's worthy of being given a 10/10 mark. Otherwise, literally nothing would ever get it.
Hudson Collins
According to alot of professional journalists a flawed game can be 10
Nathan Watson
You can't expect every single person that plays any game to say a game does not have flaws. There will always be flaws people don't like or feel are a problem.
10/10 is based on if the product all together is a grand one that out weighs said problems. But then again number scores are dated and stupid anyway, so why even bother?
Asher Torres
The IGN India review doesn't even offer a numerical rating, simply opinions alone.
Eli Peterson
Of course. 10/10 is just the highest score available to most reviewers. It doesn't mean perfect. It just means the product is good enough to warrant the highest score.
Jayden Miller
Numerical scores are retarded, but the main point of them to to provide an easy way to see how compares compare in quality/fun to other games. 10/10 just means the game is fantastic compared to other shit around at the time.
Parker Bennett
Absolutely.
Hudson Russell
Yes, review scores are just a quick guide to the reviewer's level of enthusiasm. They're not scientific.
Liam Morris
No. Especially when you attach the word "masterpiece" to it.
Asher Jenkins
It's not an exam. It's art (memes aside). It would be retarded to act like it's an assessment or something. Reviews can be given the highest score without being perfect.
If the rating system were to literally be called "Perfect", I could understand it, but most reviewers aren't that stupid, and 10 is just a "Masterpiece", which doesn't mean without flaw, it just means there's some really, really great shit in the game. SOTC (when releaased) was worth 10/10, at least by a lot of people. Doesn't make it perfect. Even then it was flawed. Still unique at the game and amazing in those unique qualities.
Mason Adams
There are no videogames that don't have flaws
Name any videogame, your favorite, whatever. Someone would be able to point out a flaw and he would be right.
10/10 games are games in which the amount of flaws is incredibly low compared to the amount of greatness it has to offer.
Jason Bennett
The problem is that "flaw" is a really nebulous term. A flawed game can be better than an unflawed game and no game is truly without flaws.
Matthew Gonzalez
Yes.
Nolan Phillips
>can you get a 100 on an exam if you get one question wrong
No, but you can also theoretically get a 0, and I don't think IGN or other reviewers go that low