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I hate the 0.5 increment rating system!!

For those of you who don't know, originally on GameSpot, you were able to rate games. From 1.0-10.0 pretty much like you can now. But now you can only do 1.0, 1.5, 2.0, 2.5 and so on. When before you were able to do 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, and so forth. Now they are implementing this on the player reviews as well. I hate it. Leave the player ones alone! It forces me to give an overall, inaccurate score. Some games, I'll feel like giving the sound a 6, and the graphics a 9. But I can't do that. I have to slide and choose a score. I don't like that.

What they would do is, allow you to write a review. When you finish, choose the difficulty, time spent playing, and so forth. Then they would have you rate each category from 1-10. The categories (If I can remember all) were:

Graphics
Gameplay
Sound
Reviewer Tilt
Value

When you rated each of them, it would generate a score for you. But now it doesn't. It just has a box and you have to slide from 1.0 - 10.0. Oh well. I'll just have to get used to it I guess.


I will be writing more reviews. I really had no problem when they did it with the review slider. But now on player reviews? It sucks that I'm forced to give a game a 10 when I feel it deserved a 9.7 or 9.8 because it's so inaccurate. Hopefully they'll change this but as for now, I hate it so much. It really bugs me how inaccurate it is. It's also not fair that GS gets to still use the 1.1, 1.2 stuff but we don't. Come on GameSpot. Please change it back.