Oddbean new post about login | logout scoring inflation. I might be remembering this wrong, but it feels like in the 90s/00's the 10/10 scores for games were more rare, and now there are a lot of them. I see many 10/10 that would probably be a solid 7-8 back in the day. because that was already a really good score. Now it's considered crap.
@eb948c00 Screenshot from Twitter but it's SO true. I seem to recall very few 5/5 scores on G4 TV shows (XPlay, etc.). https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/111/022/912/182/178/823/original/31d26c4d38e74cf4.png
@eb948c00 There was a change in perception of what the scores mean. Nowadays 5 means mediocre, average, run of the mill. That means 3/10 is quite a bad game, not below expectations but actually unpleasant to play. Problem is most games are going to be mediocre at worst because no publisher is sinking hundreds of millions into a game that is bad... Usually. If anything is being made commercially then it has to have some level of quality. That means a 5 unless they really screwed something up.
