Mark Botwright
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I enjoyed the review a lot. I especially like the final pros and cons section as this forms a nice summary at a glance.As some of you may be aware, AVForums are intending to add videogame reviews to the site.
Please consider the above an early template of the direction we are currently heading in. We would very much like to hear your thoughts regarding what you'd like to see in the final design/layout, as well as comments about this review.
Thanks.
I enjoyed the review a lot. I especially like the final pros and cons section as this forms a nice summary at a glance.
I still maintain that AVF should dispense with scores. This would make reviews stand out from the norm and also result in none of the usual arguments that accompany scores that don't sit within the expected band.
Or if scores have to be a part of the review, keep it simple. Buy It, Try It and Miss It are good enough.
The problem with scores is too many people don't read the text and just go off a rather arbitrary score.
Come on AVF, be brave and ditch scores!
I think scores only tend to matter to younger gamers personally.Interesting that you should bring it up as the idea of not adding a score has certainly been mooted. The question is, would this make those people who only check scores actually read the reviews or would they still not bother? How far do we go to be inlcusive?
Do you feel the bullet points give an adequate reflection of the overall review and thus their inclusion might offset in some way the need for a total score?
I quite like overall score, that way you avoid bias towards games with great graphics as you said.
Just my opinion on the subtitles, it's why I rad the Times, not the Sun. If I want funny (or sarcy), ill watch Zero Punctuation
To those saying they prefer to see scores, won't the gazillions of other reviews out there with scores be enough for you?
I strongly feel AVF have a chance to do something different otherwise what value do the AVF reviews have over those on Eurogamer or IGN?
Any chance you could PM me the link to your site and the discussion you mention? I'd like to see what kind of format you ended up going with as it sounds like we might be on the same page so to speak. Plus it'd be good to see what other arguments were put forward.