first post

This blog is dedicated to a particular mission of mine: I’m tired of the way games are reviewed in the press and popular game websites. It seems like games that get a score of 8 and up get all the glory, but plenty of times there’s good games that don’t get those numbers and have a good experience to offer – just not in the eyes of the game reviewer elite.
This blog is going to be dedicated to all the games that scored 7 or less that I discovered by chance and had a great time with. How can I find those lost games and how can video game reviews get better at serving people who don’t always feel the same way as the critics.

what’s score 7?

Let’s start with this excerpt from Gamespot‘s playbook:

The average rating on GameSpot lies between a high 6 and a low 7, which is fully in line with what we believe is the fairly good quality of the average game on store shelves. Because we do not strictly grade on a curve, we have not set 5.0 as our average rating. We believe the high end of our rating scale (the 8 and 9 range) works suitably well to distinguish truly outstanding games from all the others. However, most games really aren’t bad.