Rating System Explained

I've been getting a few messages of late from viewers asking why I give such low scores "this game doesn't deserve this blah blah blah"

Let me explain. I'm not IGN, Gamespot, or some large magazine, with advertising deals and sponsors to upset. I know gamers have become accustomed to games that are absolute crap, unless it scores atleast 7, and if it's atleast slightly decent scores at least 8., and actually worth buying (or its advertised all over the site scores 9, or 10.

But that's not how it works with me. I see less than 5 being a negative score, ie I didn't enjoy it. 5 being absolutely average, it wasn't a bad game at all (if you notice, quite a few games are scoring around here. above 5 being a positive score, if it got more than 5 I liked it quite a lot. Games that score 8 and 9 are very special games. To put it in to perspective  Grand Theft auto and the Elder Scrolls games are my two favourite game series. Skyrim, possibly the best game I've played would probably just about score 9. GTA San Andreas, and GTA 4, would also get around 8.5/9 So anything that's scoring 7, I like quite a lot. 8 is an absolutely stunning game to me.But I'm not starting the .2 and .3 shit I can't be bothered. )

It's unlikely any game will ever score 10. That would be a game that would have absolutely no negative aspects. Does such a game exist? No it doesn't.

So to sum it up

0/10 Likely won't happen, not many games have no redeeming features at all But any game that scores this. Even My Hero, which was my most hated game of all time, gets more than this... not much though.

1/10 Bloody awful, complete waste of plastic, ink, paper, and ware on your console/computer, and TV no one could possibly enjoy this apart from the clinically insane.

2/10 It might have some appeal to big fans of the genre, not many admittedly, but I absolutely couldn't stand it, and couldn't take it, I've defecated more enjoyable things than this MAKE IT STOP!

3/10 ehhh what happened!? Why did you do this to us!? You could have had something here, then screwed it all up, and instead ended up with dog vomit. IDIOTS!!!

4/10 It's playable... not enjoyable, probably a total borefest I didn't find much enjoyment from it, I probably stopped playing quite early on, but whatever, you might like it, if you like the genre.

5/10 Absolutely down the line average. These are the types of games that don't particularly do anything too badly, but likely have no originality whatsoever, probably a bit of a borefest at times, but not unpleasant, and perfectly playable.

6/10 not bad, pretty damn good in fact  not great, let's not get carried away here, but it's definitely a pretty. solid game. Just has a few niggles that stops it being great.

7/10 WOW! Now we're talking. Games that score 7 are great games, not quite genre defining, there's likely better games in the genre... not many, but if you like the genre you have to play it.

8/10 One word. AWESOME! PLAY IT!, WHY YOU NOT PLAYING IT? PLAY IT NOW!!!

9/10 How could such a game be possible, how could mere men have created this? SIR's You are not men... you must be gods!

10/10 Perfect, absolutely no faults, not even the tiniest of fault, nothing could ever improve on it. This is the pinnacle of gaming. It's a sad day for us all, because nothing will be better than this, anything else will seem hollow afterwards.

Anything that scores .5 is just simply better than the lower score, but not quite good enough for the higher one.

Thanks for reading. Hope I cleared that up a little

-Onion

Update 02/11/12

Well the Silent hill video is up, what a pile of crap that was, but nevermind moving on!

Upcoming videos

Assassins Creed Revelations.

This is one I've actually owned for ages, and couldn't really be bothered to play, I've been a little burned out on the series. But before I play Assassins Creed 3, I want to play this one, so this is probably going to be the next video

Uncharted 3

Of course, I've already mentioned this one in previous posts. I know I said, it was going to be the next modern game, but I had a change of plan. I've spent a small amount of time with this game so far, it's been quite impressive. I'll have a full lowdown soon enough

The Amazing Spider Man

This one, I like the look of a lot, not played it yet though, it also looks a lot of fun on move. Shame I don't have move. But we'll see just how amazing it is soon enough.

Classic Review

Before those two though, I'm likely going to make a classic review, I still have wonder boy 3 for the master system in mind for this. I used to adore that game as a child, and can't wait to get my teeth in to it again!

I'll also be working on movie reviews during this time, I have a few in mind to start making soon. But until I'm sure, I'll keep that information close to my chest.

Thanks for reading.

=Onion