Why?Amnestic said:I think it should change, I'm tired of seeing 7-8 be an 'average' score in a ten point scale.
Why assume that "average" must be "middle". That's just mathematically ignorant.
Review scores are like scores YOU would get doing a test/exam in school. The average person should not get HALF the questions wrong. A game should not fail on HALF the criteria! The average should be as close to 10 as possible! As just like every student should be answering every question right, every game should be succeeding in every criteria.
Would you accept being treated by an "average" doctor who couldn't correctly answer HALF OF THE QUESTIONS POSED TO THEM!! That's not an average doctor, that's really bad doctor.
When reviewing things including games, 10/10 should be for a game that is more of less, for this time and price, for its genre and type it is as good as it be. Temporal perfection.
There is nothing wrong with 7.5 being average.
It is asinine and pointless to say "oooh, we have to use the WHOLE point scale" there is no reason to.