Quote Originally Posted by opiumcloud View Post
Even my favorite games in the series, I didn't give anywhere close to a ten. If if would make you guys happy, you can pretend that I gave FF Tactics a 9.8/10 and FF9 a 9.0/10, instead of giving tactics a 9.5/10 and FF9 a 7.5/10. In such an alternate ranking system, the ratio of each game's distance from a "perfect 10" ranking would remain the same, but I don't like such "curved upwards" rating systems, because they leave the reviewer little opportunity to differentiate between very good and great games.
Touche.

Fans of a particular series or genre, or just games in general have a tendency to skew their rankings far too much toward the high end creating a situation exactly like you're talking about...a game rated 9 might be a great game, but quite noticeably worse than a game rated 9.5, yet on an absolute scale they look to be quite comparable.

Random thought:

IMO we'd sometimes be better off with a logarithmic scale ranking system, like the Richter Scale, where each point was equivalent to a fixed multiple of the overall quality of the game or something, particularly when we're talking about games within a series that are all highly rated relative to "all other games." Then we could say, yeah, FFI is really good, but FFVI is a lot better and get a better picture of how much better we're really talking about.

Anyway, I enjoyed the reviews. Thanks.