I think games should be rated in terms of how much one would be willing to spend on a game. A great game would be full price (the 5 star) down to "you'd have to pay me full price to play this".
Rate Games by dollars
I think games should be rated in terms of how much one would be willing to spend on a game. A great game would be full price (the 5 star) down to "you'd have to pay me full price to play this".
It might work for a small blog but larger websites would just confuse people coming purely for the score. Also, Metacritic would be absolutely screwed if people started doing this
Yea, it would be a little niche to start, but if it were on a site like Cheap Ass Gamer or similarly price focused site, it would be interesting. And Metacritic is broken in so many ways, adding this wouldn't hurt it more. ;)
You can interpret any review to this. The issue is that it is hard to write a review saying what the reader would spend on a game. If you want the "What Chris (me) would spend the full price on" reviews, only a handful from the last year would get the 5 star deal. However I get it. I pay full price for the best games (Starcraft 2 and Portal 2 recently) and I wait until $40 for the second set of games (Hot Pursuit, AC:B), and then the 2-3 star games would be my "Hey, it is on clearance for $12" games.
Really, how much I pay for a game can really change how I feel about it and how much I'm willing to play it. I noticed that games I buy for cheap, I'm less likely to play them. If I'm paying full price, I really want to get my money's worth out of it.
@nukesniper I can definitely see your point. That dollar point is different for everyone. It might be interesting to have a personal modifier that would create a "must buy" list that would take into account review, reviewer, type of game, and a few other possible factors. It definitely would be a different type of site than a traditional review site, but I could imagine there would be a certain utility for a lot of people.
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