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Fun Stats Of Community Reviews On GB
Added by Dave Snider on April 10, 2009
36 comments

I was ego surfing Giant Bomb on twitter a couple minutes ago and came across some cool graphs that Ben Medler, a Georgia-Tech PhD student, made with the site's  user review data. Using our API services he's come up with summaries of everything from average scores of prolific writers to which games get reviewed the most, but scored the worst. Apparently the answer to that last question is Star Wars: The Force Unleashed.

I won't get preachy on my soapbox again but this is just another example of why it's important for community sites like ours to open up their data. Data shouldn't be locked in black-boxes only usable by a select few. You guys have just as many cool ideas for it as we do. It's nice to see it in action.

In any case, we love spot-lighting our users' work so if you're working on anything fun with our API please let us know by email if you need any help. Our engineering mastermind Andy is constantly updating it to include more and more filters, toggles, sorts and thingamabobs.

Make sure to check out Ben's blog for more cool graphs.


Filed under : Star Wars: The Force Unleashed

36 Comments

Afroman269
on April 10, 2009
Damn look at GTA

DiGiTaL_SiN
on April 10, 2009
Strange... Monkey Island is no where to be seen on that list!

Twilight
on April 10, 2009
This is a very interesting list. Most of the games up there are pretty obvious though.

DOUBLESHOCK
on April 10, 2009
Damn the force unleashed.  That game pissed me off with all it's bugs.

Vod_Crack
on April 10, 2009
Lots of people didn't like Assassin's Creed, rightfully so.

Sharpshooter
on April 10, 2009
Dude really likes his graphs doesn't he.

Riicochet
on April 10, 2009
Another reason giant bomb is the greatest VG site around.

API for all.

also, whats with the hate on fable 2?

PapaLazarou
on April 10, 2009
Ass Creed Pissed me off more than any game I've veer played and because of that it is the worst game I have ever played. I have never got so frustrated or angry trying to play a game like I did with Ass Creed like how it would take you outta the simulation just to make you go to sleep....... why? All you did was take me out of playing the game to make mr walk over to a bed to go to sleep to only have to go back into the game.

benmedler
on April 10, 2009

Whoops read that wrong, it does mention that the graph only looks at the top reviewed games but with lower scores.

In addition, there are 44 games with a score of 0, so I suggest you check out some of those :)

Oh wait, Disney’s Talespin is  at 0, what the hell.


HT101
on April 10, 2009
Those are some pretty interesting graphs that guy made and lets us see even more of what people like and dislike in their games.

borgmaster
on April 10, 2009
mass effect isn't bright green?!?!?!?.......OH HELL NAW!!!

FlipperDesert
on April 10, 2009
Ooh, interesting. I should really try a user review myself sometime.

GioVANNI
on April 10, 2009
How did GoW2 get better reviews than Fable 2?  That's... that's just crazy.

Milkman
on April 10, 2009
@GioVANNI

Uhh...no, it's not?


Anyway, I don't know what possessed this guy to make these graphs but sure, whatever.

logson
on April 10, 2009
These are awesome. Thanks for posting!

LordAndrew is online
on April 10, 2009
Interesting. Maybe I'm missing a small sliver that can't be seen by the human eye, but it doesn't look like The Force Unleashed earned any 5-star reviews. And top reviewer zh666 uses the full review scale, with an average review score of 2.5.
This is the kind of stuff I like to see. :)

Dalai
on April 10, 2009
Graphs, my one and only weakness.  Damn you, Snide!

Bobby
on April 10, 2009
@Milkman He was just curious to see what kind of information he could gleam from looking at broad statistics. The whole poit of information visualization is to look for trends/results/dynamics in the display of data.

Snail
on April 10, 2009
Bioshock? Well that's a shock.

The pun... wasn't intentional.

dsplayer1010
on April 10, 2009
Just looking at it, it looks like MGS4, Braid, and Super Mario Galaxy are the best reviewed games on the site.


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