Sometimes I think half these people haven't played the games they review. I love the GOG community but overall they're one of the last places I'd go to for reviews. Just watching some gameplay videos on youtube can generally be more informative. Threads about this pop up now and then, the issue is never going away unless GOG gets a mod just for reviews (and maybe enforce a word limit of atleast 100 words or so in the code to get rid of the "this game is awesome" "this game sucks!" reviews). :P

Yeah, I always trusted such reviews.

The difference between 87 and 84 percent were so obvious!

Maybe GOG should do as we are currently in the process of doing and adopt/copy the brilliant Danish grading scale:

-3, 00, 02, 4, 7, 10 and 12.

:P

Obvious, but not that big. But when a game got 79%, that's where I knew it was just not worth playing. That's 1% short to be fun you know.
Uuu, you gave me an idea for an objective and informative rating system.
1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55

See? Choosing one of the above would work better than stars. Especially the two ones would be helpful, one's 'so bad it's fun', and the other is 'Star Wars christmas special bad'

Everybody put a cork in it!
From now the rating system is as follows.

Good = "Fuckin' A!"

Mediocre = "What the fuck do I care?"

Bad = "Get the fuck outta here!"


Hmmm guess that didn't go over too well. XD

Sorry, Blue Coins mean more to me than my honest opinion.

Reviews and scoring systems have become so pointless to me in general, that I use Youtube, Mobygames, Wikipedia, and similar to see if it's something I might enjoy.
There are some Youtube reviewers I might watch though, because they put some effort into describing the feel of the gameplay, which is easier to understand when they're narrating what they're doing at the same time.

I used to use IGN for the same reason - They gave full details on what the game featured so you could develop an opinion for yourself more so than just take the reviewer's.

Nowadays I also just watch YouTube footage. Biscuit knocks a lot of things I happen to like but still watch him because he's thorough with the game's demonstration.

The last review I attempted was for Dungeon Gate because no one knew what this was. Only one professional review and the reviewer totally shot it down but then came back with an edit explaining it better than he thought because he played the whole way through it the wrong way. So I pick the game and come to find out that no one mentioned a huge problem with Dungeon Gate - No resolution controls thus leaving DG to crash on Wide Screen systems.

And you'd be able to quickly find out who was a nut with a [redacted] in their throat, and who you could trust. What would you set as categories, considering that graphics will vary and cannot be quantified, unless it was perera?

Hm, now I only have to find out how to insert myself as a game in the GOG catalogue and BOOM! Five stars! That's probably the fastest way to learn what the mysterious reward for fivestardom is...

Far out man. Let me know how it goes. :D
It would be like Fantastic Voyage only without Raquel Welch.

Can someone make a list of games we are allowed to give 5 stars, just so I don't do an accident...

Sure:


Psychonauts.


Well, that's it really.

Certainly.

http://www.mobygames.com/

I think that the 1-100 system lacks something, maybe it could get improved by adding some decimals at the end.
And I like the pi number, we should also use it.