So if you get an A on a paper that means it's perfect and there is no possible way you could improve it?

I'm going to go ahead and cut off anyone about to say BUT A 100 DOES because no it doesn't I'm sure it would fail at a graduate school level or in a different class, it doesn't mean perfect.

100 on a math test=perfect.

that's a test, not a paper you tard.

oh for fuck's sake YOU CAN'T GRADE GAMES LIKE MATH what's wrong with you. there's no way you didn't see the intense flaw here.

hmmm well magical negro your paper was to include exactly seven unique five syllable words and you've only done six, gotta dock you two points for that, as well as not quite hitting the six page mark and going over, dock you another two.

when you grade a creative media you can never say it's perfect because (christ I can't believe I have to explain this) perfection cannot be created since people are imperfect and you can never satisfy everyone. GTA doing so well doesn't mean it's the BEST GAME EVER IT'S PERFECT or even that it's the best sandbox game ever but it means it's a damn fine specimen with few flaws that anyone with the slightest interest in the style of game can find.

a Christian reviewer would dock it for violence, panda probably will not play it much, and a blind man will hate it, but this doesn't mean you must suddenly give the game a 9.8 because it's not perfect across the board with every possible demographic.

Hey guys stop fucking up my thread haha.. kidding you guys take things to seriously. If people do want to post their gamer tags here I'll put them in the first post.

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Steel is basically totally right. I don't think many publications try to say that their highest score is perfection.

I mean, an Aussie Nintendo magazine gave Perfect Dark 101%. IGN gave Jade Empire (a short as hell game which is nowhere near perfect) a 9.9. A 10/10 review means the game is basically flawless to the person writing it, and nothing more.

A 10/10 review means the game is basically flawless to the person writing it, and nothing more.

so im confused, why does that mean we arent allowed to call it out and say it's a stupid rating to give any game?

edit: actually, it doesnt really matter, so yeah who cares. it is nearly out hooray!!

so im confused, why does that mean we arent allowed to call it out and say it's a stupid rating to give any game?

you can call out scores all you want, but bitching about a game(you have never played in this case!) not being perfect(duh! what game is?) but getting a 'perfect' score(which doesn't mean the reviewer thinks the game is actually 100% perfect) is stupid.

you can call out scores all you want, but bitching about a game(you have never played in this case!) not being perfect(duh! what game is?) but getting a 'perfect' score(which doesn't mean the reviewer thinks the game is actually 100% perfect) is stupid.

ptizzle just said it means the reviewer thinks the game is flawless

i can still call the reviewers stupid, right? or is that stupid too?? there are too many rules involved here.

ptizzle just said it means the reviewer thinks the game is flawless

i really doubt they believe the game is flawless, but probably believe the flaws that it has don't get in the way of it being a great game.. or maybe they do, but i highly doubt most do.

i can still call the reviewers stupid, right? or is that stupid too?? there are too many rules involved here.

if you're calling them stupid because they gave a game a 10 that you don't think is perfect then yes, it is very, very stupid.
that said i'm sure there are plenty of better reason to call a reviewer stupid

Its not a perfect score it the highest on the 1-10 scale.  Hell IGN even went OVER the 10 Pt scale before.

http://dvd.ign.com/articles/037/037306p1.html

Overall Score 11/10.

It's like how a girl can be a 10 and not be the prettiest but her intellect makes up for it or something along those lines.

yeah thats what i was trying to suggest with the quotes i had around 'perfect'

on topic its nice to see that hookers actually do something instead of just sitting in your car while it rocks back in forth(this is very important to me(not really))

Thats putting words in the reviewers mouth. Seriously did you guys actually READ the review or did you go, "He gave it a 10 MUST FLAME!!"?

How is that putting words in the reviewers mouth?

Do you forget that reviews are, after all, opinions?

Therefore I don't think it's too much of a leap of logic to say that a reviewer giving a flawless score to a review (as in, his opinion) would believe the game to be flawless. This doesn't mean that they're saying this is a flawless game in the grander sense, as not everyone will find it flawless (like what Steel said before).

I'm not trying to flame or anything, but you seem to have forgotten that no matter how big the site reviews by definition should be an opinion (of a professional in the case of places like IGN). Unless they're all getting paid off or something.

i really doubt they believe the game is flawless, but probably believe the flaws that it has don't get in the way of it being a great game.. or maybe they do, but i highly doubt most do.

I was just expanding on what Steel said about a 10 never being able to be universal. I did word that a bit wrong. The IGN reviewer seemed to only have very small problems with the game, to the point where I don't think they'd really be considered flaws (of course they are literally, but they won't get in the way of your gameplay at all and the game can thusly be considered flawless to the person in question if it has nothing detrimental within it to them).