An option to give a game a rating

[Banana_Sausage47]

Apologies if this has been suggested before. What I mean is the ability to give a game a rating out of 5 and have it displayed when you view that game's trophies. Also displayed could be the amount of people who have rated the game and the average of all those ratings. It could help people who are viewing that game to see what other gamers here thought of it.

[Xel]

Similar to GameFAQs. I see.

[Maxximum]

Just like the Play Store App on the Samsung Galaxy smartphones. I see.

[KHAN-KSA]

It could be like an added tab I guess .. You have Guides, Games, Gaming Sessions, etc... & Reviews.

 

In which the users of the site can post their own reviews and game play videos (Or links for youtube) and show the game in their own words.

 

Good Idea actually!

[damon8r351]

Been suggested before.

 

Also, not particularly interested in that on a personal level, mostly because other gamer's opinions turn out to be flat out fucking wrong in my estimation. If I had listened to other gamers' opinions, I'd have never played more than half the games I later ended up enjoying.

[MMDE]

I'd prefer if people could write reviews, and if we could comment on 'em, and no score whatsoever.

Edited May 26, 2016 by MMDE

[Happy]

Been suggested roughly a billion times by now. It's been decided against because rating games is not really what this site's about. Same with reviews.

[Saionji]

Been suggested roughly a billion times by now. It's been decided against because rating games is not really what this site's about. Same with reviews.

 

I see, I agree with topic thou. It would be nice to see your own score of this game, users score and maybe staff score too like its shown on IGN.

[Daniel_Shadow170]

I like the idea of putting a rating next to a game.

[FawltyPowers]

I think it would be good to apply the same kind of "Unofficial" scores that people are using on the Trophy Checklists

 

Fun X/10

Difficulty X/10

Short Review

 

Any kind of scoring is redundant unless people give a short review of why. A score of 1/10 followed by "Cuz its shit" can be ignored when you're browsing through.

[Cleggworth]

Terrible idea. Even if everybody did vote objectively its all opinions anyway. Whose to say my 10 is the same as your 10? Follow trophy checklist threads. See someone who plays a lot of games you do and ask them about them. They generally have scores and the better ones even have reviews.

[MMDE]

Terrible idea. Even if everybody did vote objectively its all opinions anyway. Whose to say my 10 is the same as your 10? Follow trophy checklist threads. See someone who plays a lot of games you do and ask them about them. They generally have scores and the better ones even have reviews.

 

Yeah, this is kinda why I said reviews that people can comment on and no scoring with a number or anything. This way you weed out all the unserious stuff, and you get far better information about the game. I'd love to see what I just said though, it would be more of a review from a trophy hunter perspective.

[DaivRules]

The only way this would be objectively helpful is if instead of scores, users could give a like, neutral or dislike rating to a game. Then an algorithm could compare your "likes" and "dislikes" to another persons and give you suggestions based on peoples tastes similar to yours. Having "scores" is so subjective they're pointless when considering the whole of a game.

 

However, the decision would need to be made about how much of a game must a user complete before giving a rating. Someone could give up on Heavy Rain at Press X to Shaun and rate it a dislike, but if they had finished the game and gotten all endings, they may have liked it. Should the user be required to obtain the platinum or maybe just the story related trophies for appropriate games? Or make it a free for all, let people rate any and every game they want. Someone could go and give every Naughty Dog game dislikes out of spite, which would appeal to others who did the same, but certainly wouldn't be helpful to others looking for genuine recommendations.

 

The value of such a system relies on the users being genuine and actually using it as intended. This would be hard to impossible to moderate and would introduce a ton of complications.

[LetsTurnJu-On]

If this feature is ever implemented.

 

1) I'd never use it, because I believe in trying a game out for yourself, not listening to another's opinion.

2) You'd have to do it on games that the person has on their profile, otherwise you're gonna get random hate from people who haven't played a game and dislike it for one reason or another.

[Doom]

This is metacritic's job.

[damage_6-9]

99.999% of the time it comes down to personal opinion.... eg: I'm one of about 6 people (maybe) in the entire world that hated TLoU, lol, everybody else loved it

[PhaseRebirth]

Having a difficulty rating for the platinum and add on's would make more sense to me considering this is a trophy website. This is no metacritic by any means.

[MMDE]

If this feature is ever implemented.

 

1) I'd never use it, because I believe in trying a game out for yourself, not listening to another's opinion.

2) You'd have to do it on games that the person has on their profile, otherwise you're gonna get random hate from people who haven't played a game and dislike it for one reason or another.

 

Yeah, I wouldn't use such a score either, and neither what you suggest. The only thing I see useful would be written reviews, no score, and comment section under the reviews. This is so the reviews are actually useful in extracting information from them. It wouldn't matter what their opinion on the game is etc.

[jackmadrox]

Seems like a good idea. I like it. Kind of like Amazon's rate system. I vote yes!

 

[dernop]

a trade-off would be to just show the metacritic score on the game page.

pretty sure they have an API or something for that

[Gildenmagier]

I'm totally against it because people should be able to built own opinions. Ratings of any form will only detract from that process.

[CK-612]

This is metacritic's job.

 

that remind me some of the uncharted fanboy(s) trolling with reviewer :

 

http://kotaku.com/reviewer-targeted-for-giving-uncharted-4-negative-revie-1776854933

Edited May 30, 2016 by cK-NEw_0NStaT

[Doom]

that remind me some of the uncharted fanboy(s) trolling with reviewer :

 

http://kotaku.com/reviewer-targeted-for-giving-uncharted-4-negative-revie-1776854933

Yeah, well that's just like, your opinion, man.

Jokes aside, the comments in that article are exactly why I said it's metacritic's job and not PSNP

Edited May 30, 2016 by Doctor Doom

[gameoncomrade]

YES! MAKE THIS HAPPEN! It would unquestionably be a very cool and popular feature on PSNP.

[Oobedoob S Benubi]

that remind me some of the uncharted fanboy(s) trolling with reviewer :

 

http://kotaku.com/reviewer-targeted-for-giving-uncharted-4-negative-revie-1776854933

 

Pretty much why I agree with this:

 

I'd prefer if people could write reviews, and if we could comment on 'em, and no score whatsoever.

 

Grades are not really worth a lot and a good article is a lot more helpful. One of the reviewers I often look at is Zero Punctuation and while he usually accentuates the negative and never gives scores, his videos always give me a pretty good feeling about how I would look at a game, and it has even happened that I bought a game based on what I heard from his review (or, I mean, his review was the tipping point where I decided "yeah, I'll buy it") even though he wasn't that positive about the game.