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Originally Posted by Fop
I think it depends on the scale. For a five-star scale, for example, not using the fifth star would be silly.
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Not necessarily. Most five-star scales are actually 1-10 scales as you can also give halves of stars. Adventure Gamers' scale is like that.
Why? Isn't 9 comparative steps more than enough? If you give a game a 10/10 grade, that means it can't be improved upon - even theoretically.
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For a 1-100 scale (or Gamespot's scale), 99 could be used for those games that are really, really awesome, while 100 would indeed mean perfection.
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To me that scale doesn't make much sense. A hundered - hundered! - divisions is just too much. How does one differentiate between a 67 points game and a 66 points one? No, I'd draw the line at 20/20, and even that is too much.
Although, if I'm ever to start a gaming magazine, all my reviewers will have to use a 1-1000000 scale.
