IGN's review of ChoroQ

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Originally Posted by MarkRyan

What a great idea!

That page is linked in the ratings box of every IGN review.

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Shows you how much I read IGN. :P

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Originally Posted by diffusionx

IBTN.

For all of this Japanophile fagginess, Ammandeau knows how scoring games should be.

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This is true.

Nobody could realistically call a lot of games art at all or anything crazy like that.

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Originally Posted by haohmaru

Shows you how much I read IGN. :P

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S'okay, I didn't know either until I had to write a review for SpongeBob Square Pants and was shown the scale.

Score one for Andrew - that's it. I don't like the idea that discussion of a game's relative merit only boils down to a binary buy/don't buy decision.

Film and music can get away with scoring systems like that because there is a body of scholarly discourse that exists outside the reviewing beadledom. Gaming largely lacks that discourse, and I feel reviews have taken on a more significant and defining role to in part make up for that vacuum. For that reason I prefer a system which can more accurately reflect where the reviewer places a game in the grand scheme of things.

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Originally Posted by StriderKyo

Film and music can get away with scoring systems like that because there is a body of scholarly discourse that exists outside the reviewing beadledom. Gaming largely lacks that discourse, and I feel reviews have taken on a more significant and defining role to in part make up for that vacuum.

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I am a walking body of scholarly discourse. :D