Which review scoring system do you perfer?

 Which one do you prefer or think is the best system for reviewing a game? I applaud giant bomb and x play for just doing a 5 star system. 10 points or 100 or the alphabet is not great nowadays. It just leaves tepid responses is a game is an 8.2 or a 7.9. It puts the people who read the review or just see the score angry. 3 stars is simple and easy to digest instead of a 7.6.

  The alphabet one is the worst in my oppinion. An F in school is a 50 or below but it is a 1 or a O in the the reviews system. Just confuses the review tracking biz for no reason

If I was reviewing a game on my own, I'd really rather not give a rating for it at all. If I had to though, I'd probably go with an A-F system.

I prefer a 10 point system, gives a nice clear indication with plenty of room. I just wish 5 was seen as an average game though; rather than this 7 bullshit.

I prefer the 10 point system, mainly because 5 stars isn't enough, 100 points is too much, and a grade system is JUUUUSSSSTTTT pretentious :P.

10-point ratings good. It gives a very clear idea of the points without going really deep into it.   Its the one im most comfortable with, that is..
Other than that all systems convey the message.. but yeah alphabetical sucks

Five star- Awesome, quite good, meh, poor and bad. That's all I need to know.

I personally prefer a review system that has no rating at all. Stops people jumping to pure numbers to say if a game is good or not. After all it's just opinion and that way it encourages people to actually read the review.

None of them. i like the 
 
Rent 
Buy 
Skip.

Four/five stars or ten. I think any more is ridiculous. No matter how professional someone is, they cannot accurately rate something on a 1 to 100 scale with precision.

I really don't have any particular preference. I can usually adapt to whatever weird-ass scale is used on the sites I visit.
 
But if forced to pick, I do prefer a star-based system or ten-point scale.

10 stars with half points are eh in my opinion and if it is decimals like 8.6 or whatever, they are just guessing

I do like the 4 star/5 star rating system, 4 stars for movies and 5 for games. Sometimes I do 10 points for movies when I rate them. But I would kill the 100 point rating system with fire if I could. There is no way that someone can physically tell the difference between a 7.3 and 7.4 game in a way that is mentally sane.

Integers 0 - 10.
 
5 stars is generally OK, but I don't feel like it seperates the great games from the genuine classics particularly well (ie. at all).  You can save the 10th star for such games; you can't afford to save the 5th.  
 
A rating system that would put COD4 and, say, a Punch-Out! remake in the same category, does not seem to be a system which offers adequate flexibility, imo.
 
I agree that anything beyond 10 (ok, 11) points starts getting a little ridiculous - I feel like you can justify the difference between a 7 and an 8 game for example, but not between a 7.7 and a 7.8.

10 or Grades personally.

I think the 5 star/5 point system is the best. I hate it when people give a game a 7.25 or a 5.5. It's just stupid.

You can't beat 100%.
 
 
I like the stars.

" I personally prefer a review system that has no rating at all. Stops people jumping to pure numbers to say if a game is good or not. After all it's just opinion and that way it encourages people to actually read the review. "

"None of them. i like the  Rent Buy Skip. "

5 stars, definitely.
 
I don't see why people use 100s or 1-10 with decimals when all it does is breed conflict over game comparisons (granted, even on g-bomb there are complaints all the time about review scores, but it's less)

I like a 10 point system most, but I do like Giantbomb's 5 star also, just sometimes wish it was a 10 point system.

" None of them. i like the  Rent Buy Skip. "

" @pornstorestiffi said:

" None of them. i like the  Rent Buy Skip. "

That's what ScrewAttack does. "

" @JJOR64 said:

" @pornstorestiffi said:

" None of them. i like the  Rent Buy Skip. "

That's what ScrewAttack does. "

Didn't even know they used that, or the fact that they do review. I only know them for AVGN. "

5 stars is OK for me. 

" @pornstorestiffi said:

" @JJOR64 said:

" @pornstorestiffi said:

" None of them. i like the  Rent Buy Skip. "

That's what ScrewAttack does. "

Didn't even know they used that, or the fact that they do review. I only know them for AVGN. "

HERE are some of their reviews if you are interested.  They aren't the best reviewers on the market but, the reviews are kinda entertaining. "

I prefer no scoring system. I partially understand the need for scores, but I honestly don't really care about them and wish people didn't rely on them so much. A score is just a number that people interpret in their own way. The written form of a review is more comprehensible and far superior to judge a game than a numerical value attached to it. 

5 star system is fine for judging a game. But not for comparing one game to another. 
  
But I'm not bothered, so 5 stars does the trick. That and the GB 'one-line' summary.

5 out of 5 with no half steps is perfect 10 out of 10 is the stupidest scoring system ever

" I prefer a 10 point system, gives a nice clear indication with plenty of room. I just wish 5 was seen as an average game though; rather than this 7 bullshit. "

Means the same, who gives a shit?

A 10 point system with 0.5 point intervals. I think that would be perfect.

I think the 5 star plan is the way to go. It's more universally accepted on the net. Everyone uses stars. iTunes, WalMart, Amazon, Best Buy. It just works.

" A 10 point system with 0.5 point intervals. I think that would be perfect. "

Your trying to convert the grade scale to numbers. That's exactly what 1UP doesn't want people to do... but, you know,  Metacritic wants to anyway. The alphabet scale isn't meant to be converted, so stop trying to do so. 
 
Mine is 10 points/5 stars with halves.

I like 10 point.  Like the poster above me mentioned, you could implement it as 5 stars with half stars.  Gives you a little more granularity, and lets you separate out all those "average" 3-star games into 2.5, 3, or 3.5 stars, so it's a little easier to tell if something is worth trying or not.  Right now, I just see 3-star, and I automatically skip the game, but perhaps I'm missing some decent-to-good games.

" Integers 0 - 10. 5 stars is generally OK, but I don't feel like it seperates the great games from the genuine classics particularly well (ie. at all).  You can save the 10th star for such games; you can't afford to save the 5th.    A rating system that would put COD4 and, say, a Punch-Out! remake in the same category, does not seem to be a system which offers adequate flexibility, imo."

I couldnt give a damn, its just a grouping system, 5 stars is easy to keep track off though. Its the review of the game that tells me to get it or not

I like the 10 point system, mostly because of the 4 star and how it can get kind of hazy. But if you have 10 points, I don't want decimals or shit like that. If you worked stars within stars stuff that would be perfect for me. Five stars, but you can have half stars and work out the confusing business of 4 stars

"A rating system that would put COD4 and, say, a Punch-Out! remake in the same category, does not seem to be a system which offers adequate flexibility, imo."

" @Jimbo said:

" Integers 0 - 10. 5 stars is generally OK, but I don't feel like it seperates the great games from the genuine classics particularly well (ie. at all).  You can save the 10th star for such games; you can't afford to save the 5th.    A rating system that would put COD4 and, say, a Punch-Out! remake in the same category, does not seem to be a system which offers adequate flexibility, imo."

This is actually why I like five star systems.  Not saving stars is a feature to me.  I dislike the idea not using any part of the scale on a regular basis.  The point of a rating system is to give the reader a quick assessment of how that individual game is, not to create a system of ranking games.  I see a five star game as one that is good enough to buy at full price, day of release.  This is true of both CoD4 and Punch-Out.  Arguing which game is superior is best done in some other medium, away from the review itself. "

A B C D F system.

"I prefer reading reviews, and any weight or emotion put into what score a game was given seems ridiculous to me.  I've even heard people on this site say they agree with the written review, but complain about the number of stars given.  Why?  It's so meaningless unless your a fanboy, in which case your opinion is pointless anyway. "

" @Jimbo said:

"A rating system that would put COD4 and, say, a Punch-Out! remake in the same category, does not seem to be a system which offers adequate flexibility, imo."

It seems pretty flexible to me.  It says that both games are excellent and you should play them no matter what. "