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I saw that thread at honestgamer's site about his review of the game. It reminded me of why I tend not to go to many other game boards or get in arguments there: They make you feel like you're the straight man in some classic Monty Python sketch. Like when that one guy said you don't need to have the wind to your back, you can just cruise around. The rebuttal to that is so obvious - that cruising is so slow, it'd probably take five hours to cruise across the game's map - that it shouldn't have to be said, and that the person was just wasting our time by arguing that. I also didn't like the implied assumption in many people's arguments that every game deserves a 10, regardless of the number of flaws it has.

Yup. As you have probably guessed, that thread inspired a lot of my comments. And yeah, every game does not deserve a 10. In fact, I'll argue only a very, very small minority do. I mean, a 6 really isn't that bad. In my eyes, it's about average. It's playable, but has some serious flaws. A 6 doesn't mean I hate the game and think it's totally worthless.
Score inflation has gotten so out of hand in reviews that it's not funny. Pretty soon, we'll be handing out 10s to games like Hydlide, Action 52, and Muppets at the Carnival because "it's not fair to focus on the flaws."
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