Game review scores

[Gambit37]

New gaming site Polygon has an interesting page on how they will score games, and later modify those scores as games are developed, extended or changed over time:
http://www.polygon.com/pages/about-reviews

[beowuuf]

The increments for the scale remind me of the Destructoid one, the shifting review will be interesting to see in practice.

[Gambit37]

I know reviews scores are highly subjective and often criticised as meaningless, but I've always found them to be a reasonable way of rating a game. I'm very interested to see how their 'bumping' technique will affect a game over time. Buggy games receiving a poor initial score may later get a better score after a critical patch - interesting to see if this genuinely affects player reaction, or if a day one review score is *always* the biggest influencer.

[beowuuf]

I was more thinking of something like Half Life, that is a 9 or 10 when released, yet gets harder to recommend to people far later on when sensibilities shift, etc. You have to caveat it with 'but thinki of the time it was released' etc.