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Offline Lithium

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How do you use your ratings scale?
« on: November 29, 2011, 08:40:39 PM »
dont you hate how the backspace key doubles as the back key for browsers?
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so screw that. I'm just going to make a quick version.

post how you use your ratings scale here. I'm curious to see how it differs from person to person yadda, yadda, yadda, words, words, words.

so here's my own personal scale:

10 one of my favourite games of all time/generation
examples: Half-life, Metroid Prime/Super

9 while not an alltime favorite it is worthy of high praise.
examples: Viewtiful Joe

8 worth more than the sum of its parts and/or a great memorable experience
examples: 999, Killer 7, No more heroes 1 & 2, Phoenix Wright

7 a good game
examples: professor layton: unwound future

6 above average but will be hit or miss for most. Or good, but shallow.
examples: Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn, Metroid other M, Punch-out

5 average, bland but not good/bad
examples: Counter-Strike, Sonic Adventure 1 & 2

4 below average
examples: most 3-d sonic games

3 so bad its good
examples: Custer's revenge, Night Trap

2 I hate this game
examples: Shovelware games i rented in hopes it would be a 3

1 Single Indian Tear
examples: E.T

0propaganda games with malicious intent
but 0 is a theoretical score since I wouldn't actually play those.

Then I started writing about the factors that influence how much i like a game the most but whatever, just pretend there's a good paragraph or two under here.

Long story short its the Story and World/Art Design that influence me most.
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Re: How do you use your ratings scale?
« Reply #1 on: November 29, 2011, 09:03:00 PM »
I just don't use scores anymore.  It was too much of a headache to try to boil down my thoughts numerically, and the score shouldn't matter anyway.  I prefer to just write out my thoughts and let them speak for themselves.
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Re: How do you use your ratings scale?
« Reply #2 on: November 29, 2011, 09:06:08 PM »
How many people who talk about E.T. or Custer's Revenge have actually played it?
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Re: How do you use your ratings scale?
« Reply #3 on: November 29, 2011, 09:09:03 PM »
How many people who talk about E.T. or Custer's Revenge have actually played it?
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Re: How do you use your ratings scale?
« Reply #4 on: November 29, 2011, 09:13:38 PM »
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Re: How do you use your ratings scale?
« Reply #5 on: November 29, 2011, 09:29:19 PM »
How many people who talk about E.T. or Custer's Revenge have actually played it?
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That wasn't my question.
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Re: How do you use your ratings scale?
« Reply #6 on: November 29, 2011, 09:34:00 PM »
How many people who talk about E.T. or Custer's Revenge have actually played it?
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That wasn't my question.


not sure what you want me to say then.
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Re: How do you use your ratings scale?
« Reply #7 on: November 29, 2011, 09:41:48 PM »
Many people like to talk about these famously bad games, but have never actually played them. So he is asking how many people who talk about them have played them.
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Re: How do you use your ratings scale?
« Reply #8 on: November 30, 2011, 01:06:01 AM »
"w many people who talk about E.T. or Custer's Revenge have actually played it?"

Me :( and yeah even as a kid I thought ET sucked, utterly pointless.  Not sure if I can review the game since I only couple of hours.

As for your rating system I agree.   

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Re: How do you use your ratings scale?
« Reply #9 on: November 30, 2011, 09:44:15 AM »
I don't know what Custer's Revenge is...
Personally I make it a point when I'm talking about E.T. to stick with the sales and utter ridiculousness of the situation.

As for ratings, I try to think back to what I have ranked already and fit games in.

10-  A game that had great flow, great controls, that I wanted to consume to the end.  The type of game you have to be pulled away from and you don't have to make any excuses for.

9- A game that had good flow, good controls, that I wanted to consume to the end.  Though I would have to make excuses for some things.

8- A great game with Marring problems.

7- A good game

6- An Ok Game that doesn't live up to its potential

5-  A game that I just don't care for.  It's not bad, but it's not my cup of tea

4-  This game has minor problems with it.  Lots of minor problems.

3-  There are major problems with this game

2-  There are major problems with this game that I don't even know if the game be good if you fixed them

1-  Who thought this was a good idea?  Seriously?  Guess what go get yourself sterilized the population doesn't need you.

0-  Um, Dude your game doesn't work.  At all.  Great Quality control there.
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Re: How do you use your ratings scale?
« Reply #10 on: November 30, 2011, 09:47:41 AM »
Many people like to talk about these famously bad games, but have never actually played them. So he is asking how many people who talk about them have played them.

I played them via emulator because of their infamous status. (Basically the same answer as before  just less vague)

I don't know what Custer's Revenge is...

Custer's revenge is this hilariously bad porn game for atari
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Re: How do you use your ratings scale?
« Reply #11 on: November 30, 2011, 11:55:25 AM »
Lithium, by your own scale you have overrated Custer's Revenge. Even if I was on drugs, I wouldn't given it anything higher than a 2. If you completely ignore everything else about the game and rated just the gameplay alone, I wouldn't give it more than a 1. It's a game of Frogger rendered nearly unplayable. ET has more broken gameplay elements than it. Even as "porn" it fails.

The only value it has is as a torture device where other people play for our own amusement like the Roman days of old where men fought each other to draw blood with the chance to see the spectacle that is death.

Fortunately for Custer, it doesn't get a 0 because it runs and it is a game.
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Re: How do you use your ratings scale?
« Reply #12 on: November 30, 2011, 12:24:03 PM »
How many people who talk about E.T. or Custer's Revenge have actually played it?


E.T. is an underrated game. I'm not saying it was good or even worth playing, but it doesn't deserve the scorn and hate that it receives. Most people who dump on it have never played, and very few of those who have played understood the point or purpose of the game.


As a child we had E.T. for our Atari. Even though it wasn't a good game, it did have some redeeming features - in fact, you could even argue that most of the faults stem from being too ambitious. So what is good about E.T.?
- decent connection to the movie, from the opening music to key points about the game (Reese's Pieces, flower, Eliot, phoning home)
- ambitious "open world" gameplay that was more than a cheap arcade experience designed to simply test your reflexes
- better story than the vast majority of Atari games, and good sense of accomplishment when you finally do mange to phone home and get picked up by the mother ship


Does that make up for the lousy controls (getting out of pits without falling back took a ridiculous amount of experience) or the uninspired use of pits all over the world map to hide phone pieces? No. But it's a heck of a lot better than another poor Pac-Man/Space Invaders clone and also better than dozens of other failed Atari games. It's also a reasonable design when you consider the time, resources, and hardware available when this game released in 1982.




Custer's Revenge, on the other hand, is terrible. I guess that should be expected from a game that is clearly selling based on sexual exploitation though...
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Re: How do you use your ratings scale?
« Reply #13 on: November 30, 2011, 12:27:55 PM »
E.T. is better than I would expect from a game developed by 1 person in about 6 weeks, I will admit that.
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Re: How do you use your ratings scale?
« Reply #14 on: November 30, 2011, 01:08:35 PM »
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As a child we had E.T. for our Atari.

I'm sorry, but children can be very naive and accepting of poor entertainment.

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- ambitious "open world" gameplay that was more than a cheap arcade experience designed to simply test your reflexes

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(getting out of pits without falling back took a ridiculous amount of experience)

Ambitious doesn't seem to be the right word here...
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Re: How do you use your ratings scale?
« Reply #15 on: November 30, 2011, 01:32:21 PM »

I'm not saying it's a good game, and wouldn't have said that as a child either. E.T. is a poor game no matter how you slice it... but it's definitely not the worst game game ever, or even the worst on the Atari platform.

Ambition is all relative. Again, given the resource and hardware constraints, "ambitious" is exactly the right word in my opinion. You are free to disagree.
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Re: How do you use your ratings scale?
« Reply #16 on: November 30, 2011, 01:54:51 PM »
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Re: How do you use your ratings scale?
« Reply #17 on: November 30, 2011, 02:03:16 PM »
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Re: How do you use your ratings scale?
« Reply #18 on: November 30, 2011, 02:26:01 PM »
Lithium, by your own scale you have overrated Custer's Revenge. Even if I was on drugs, I wouldn't given it anything higher than a 2. If you completely ignore everything else about the game and rated just the gameplay alone, I wouldn't give it more than a 1. It's a game of Frogger rendered nearly unplayable. ET has more broken gameplay elements than it. Even as "porn" it fails.

The only value it has is as a torture device where other people play for our own amusement like the Roman days of old where men fought each other to draw blood with the chance to see the spectacle that is death.

Fortunately for Custer, it doesn't get a 0 because it runs and it is a game.


it gets a 3 because i find it hilariously bad and because of that im having fun at it's expense because of the very concept of that kind of a game on Atari. where as the rest are bad and not hilarious. Seems pretty consistent to me. It's like how people like to watch really bad movies to laugh at. Considering how im not a professional reviewer i dont need to rate gameplay just how much fun im having.


ultimately whether or not you agree is irrelevent because its my own personal scale. I made this thread because i was curious to see how it differs from person to person not to say "this is how every and all scales should be" I'll just leave it at that because this thread got derailed right from the get-go.
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Re: How do you use your ratings scale?
« Reply #19 on: November 30, 2011, 10:55:31 PM »
How I rate:

1 Star - Awful
2 Stars - Bad
3 Stars - Okay
4 Stars - Good
5 Stars - Great

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Re: How do you use your ratings scale?
« Reply #20 on: April 21, 2012, 11:30:14 PM »
I would rate a ten to a game when everything about the game is just perfect. Gameplay wise.
I really don't like when some people rate games due to the graphics, like come on, really?
Example: Look at Xenoblade Cronicles, Fantastic game! But I saw a review by a certain website that has a "Red Crosshair" looking logo and they gave it a "-" (minus) for graphics! REALLY!? Look at the hardware! I personally think the graphics and the backgounds in this game are amasing!
That was my rant on people reviewing graphics.
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