SAILERIUS'S PROFILE

author=Racheal
Perhaps instead of a numerical scoring system, or as well as, there could be a word system. One person might view 2.5/5 as "average" whereas another might view it as "just barely playable," but if you label it as average, then everyone would view that rating similarly. It wouldn't functionally be that different, but it might make a rating more universal from one person to another.

This is a great idea. I wish we could agree on a few games to use as a baseline, though. A game or two that we can all agree constitutes being "average."

I don't really want to be compared to professional games/game makers. I'm not a professional game maker, nor do I ever, ever want to be.

So we should hold back the people who aspire to do something great with the medium? It's the people who aspire to professional quality that truly improve this community and its image.

I've been of the opinion for the long time that we should eliminate stars and other numerical scoring metrics. S.F. LaValle said it well in the review comments:

While I'd personally like this not to be the case, these easily-influences star scores for games affect the game's visibility. To us, not by a great deal, but we can't ignore what implications a star score gives to site visitors who aren't scene-savvy.

Casual visitors who stroll through the site are likely to base their judgment of whether or not to play a game based entirely on the review score. This puts reviewers in a difficult position where they might be dissuaded against posting a low-score review because it would hurt the game's visibility. We should be able to post critiques and suggestions, but without a visible scoring metric that can be misinterpreted by outsiders and hurt a game's potential to be recognized.

That aside, I'm personally of the belief that we should make better games that deserve a higher score instead of adjusting our scores to make our games look better. Regardless of your scoring metric, you're going to either clump together a bunch of bad games or a bunch of good games under the same score. Whether you try to lift up the bad games or celebrate the good games is a matter of personal philosophy and I don't think there's a consensus on which should be done here.

author=Saya
Wow. Just wow. If I here Nico, I'd probably want to hang myself on my ceiling fan. It's one thing to point out the flaws of a game, its another to call it an irredeemable piece of crap, and the score on your review tells me exactly that.

I know that a lot of people here think that RPG games are serious business and the internet doesn't care about your feelings, but seriously? We're supposed to be a supportive community. We're supposed to point out the positive for someone who has spent YEARS making this game. This is not celebrating the mediocre. This is about showing respect to those who put time and effort into a piece of work made for free for people to enjoy.

Also, I would appreciate if people stopped attacking each other. I know I'm being hypocritical, but the only solution would be to just delete or lock the review. People have already said all they want to say and need to say. It's time to move on.

I offered my suggestions on how to improve the game. The worst way you could show respect for someone who has invested so much time in a game is to simply say "it's amazing keep it up" without pointing out what they could do to improve. I also never said it was an "irredeemable piece of crap."

author=VideoWizard
We're (past) peak-Final Fantasy, and now one of the highest (if not the highest) profile games on RMN got the same score as this? A game that's probably right down there with the notoriously bad games that have already been mentioned. (I even admit it!) That's... shocking to say the least.

There are some games which don't even deserve a 0.5/5. It's the same argument as giving games 5/5; since it's the highest score you can give, you're bound to get games with wildly different levels of quality getting the same score.

author=Magi
i can only assume this self-indulgent tripe is a desperate attempt to cover someone else's own insecurities. might be better off buying some 100g iron armor to protect that fragile ego bro

You're taking this review about someone else's game really personally. I think you need to chill out a little.