[Kingzjester]

Graphics: 7
Art: 10
Sound: 7
Music: 10
Gameplay: 6
Design: 9
Story: 7
Writing: 10
Tilt: 11

Cumulative score: n/a

[RLacey]

Your gift for prose astounds me, kingz .

[Karmillo]

Wow...I am Gobsmacked

[Lucien21]

So you liked it then.

[simpson_yellow]

Quality review.

Little surprised to see Art only scoring a 10 though.

[Melanie68]

What is 'tilt' ?

[simpson_yellow]

My understanding is that it's the personal tilt that a reviewer gives to a game for indefinable qualities.

For example, if a reviewer attempts to objectively score a game a game's components, the individual scores might end up averaging X out of 10. The reviewer might feel that the game is actually better or worse than X, and will assign a high or low 'tilt' value to signify that.

Gamespot use it. Kind of a strange system in my opinion.

[Huz]

Originally Posted by simpson_yellow

Gamespot use it. Kind of a strange system in my opinion.

Makes sense to me, although it's really just a bolted-on attempt to make sense of the mad de-facto game reviewing system of assigning a score to every conceivable aspect of the game. A modern game can be more or less than the sum of its parts, just like a film or a book can. When was the last time you saw a book getting a mark out of ten for "Typesetting"?

[simpson_yellow]

A Review of Huz's post:

Clarity: 8
Conciseness: 9
Spelling: 9.5
Punctuation: 9
Grammar: 8
Reviewer Tilt:8.5

Pros: Quoted simpson_yellow
Cons: Did not rave wildly about Psychonauts

Better than: a panning
Worse than: an evening with Cate Archer

OVERALL SCORE: 9 (calculated by way of an extraordinarily complicated algorithm)

[Melanie68]

Simpsie, my manners are atrocious. Thanks for the tilt explanation.

[simpson_yellow]

No probs, Mel .

*returns Melanie's name to Christmas card list, after violently scratching it off a couple of days ago*