Opinion: The Video Game Review Scale Has Problems

Game Rant:

One editor talks about the current scale in which video games are rated, and how many reviewers opt to limit scores based on the norms of the industry.

Let me preface this entire piece with the fact that I don’t disagree with the scores that any of my peers within the gaming industry have assigned titles. That is, obviously, their opinion about any given piece of software that they’ve been tasked with reviewing, and to say they’re wrong for having it would be one of the stupider and just plain incorrect things that anyone could ever write. With that said, the system that others and myself score games on has been warped and limited through the expectations of the industry, leaving a majority of the scale untouched in the process.