Critic talk. As much as it risks score inflation, if you have a 1-10 mark system and you avoid ever giving 10s, the system is just broken. It's untenable.
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I think that a critical scoring system requires some level of personal mortification to avoid inflation.
Possibly one where to really endorse something the critic is required to sit in a cold bath for an hour. So you'd have a score system that went 1-6, water, custard, baked beans, maggots.
And getting it all on film as proof would provide an additional revenue stream as the footage could be sold to every creator the critic had ever given a bad or even indifferent review.
There should be a retrospective every 6 months where any games that have changed value get updated, with games that have stood the test of time being upgraded to from 8 and 9.
Humans are fallible, being hungry, tired, or in pain while evaluating something has been proven to drag it down.
As an ex teacher I can only say fuck yes to this. The marking criteria now for things that aren't yes/no answer tests in pretty much every high school subject here now are "achieves this" or "does not achieve this" because of that. (and if you "achieve this" you get full marks for that section)
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Possibly one where to really endorse something the critic is required to sit in a cold bath for an hour. So you'd have a score system that went 1-6, water, custard, baked beans, maggots.
Humans are fallible, being hungry, tired, or in pain while evaluating something has been proven to drag it down.