Actually, I do have a problem with people saying that numbers shouldn't be included with video game reviews; like stars in movie reviews, it helps me contextualizes all of the comments made elsewhere in the review to make it clear what the person actually thought of the game overall. Kotaku's reviews, especially, don't have enough content in them in order for me to figure out whether a game would be a 7 or an 8, and when I'm shopping with a limited budget, I want to know pretty exactly how good this $60 disc is supposed to be. If Roger Ebert has no qualms using stars, then video game journalists shouldn't think they're better, because they're not.
I hold up the little video game reviews that Toonami used to run as a prime example on how to create a short, entertaining video game reviews that, while lacking in depth, hit all the right points. A lot of Internet sites could learn from those.