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Okay, somebody please explain to me why an 8.8 out of 10 is somehow a bad score, and means the reviewer must have been paid by the competition or some similar nonsense.
Honestly, I've never really understood these game(or movie/cd/whatever)-to-number conversions, and I still don't. But I think this is what it means:
A 10 basically means that a game is perfect. Zelda: Ocarina Of Time and Chrono Cross are, apparently, 2 such perfect games. So Zelda: The Twilight Princess has achieved 88% of...perfection, I guess. That's pretty damn good to me.
It's slightly lower than FFXII, which is 90% perfect, and Gears of War, which rates a massive 8/10s of a point higher than TP. But is that really a big deal when the game gets a glowing review anyways? Read the actual text or, even better, wait a day and play the game yourself rather than getting up in arms over a number.
I'm not even sure if I'll be buying the Wii tomorrow(I sure as hell didn't buy the PS3). I work from 4-10:15 Saturday night, then 8-4 Sunday morning, so I don't know if I'll really want to wait at Wal-Mart in between. I mainly want to do it for Austin since he's out of town for some young leader's conference in Washington DC at the moment. It was really stressful for him to take care of all his work and extracurricular crap before leaving, so it would be nice to see him happy for a change. ^^;
I still need to get into FFXII and beat Metroid Prime 2, plus there's FFV Advance and FFIII DS, so I'm not in a huge hurry. Never enough time in the day. :/
For the record, I would give Valkyrie Profile 2 a score of 12 orgasms alongside a hot plate of crispy bacon. Kingdom Hearts 2 isn't quite at that level, but it's on par with having a vintage Darth Vader action figure that's MISB and signed by James Earl Jones, David Prowse, and George Lucas. I'm not sure how either of those convert to a scale of 1 to 10.
Honestly, I've never really understood these game(or movie/cd/whatever)-to-number conversions, and I still don't. But I think this is what it means:
A 10 basically means that a game is perfect. Zelda: Ocarina Of Time and Chrono Cross are, apparently, 2 such perfect games. So Zelda: The Twilight Princess has achieved 88% of...perfection, I guess. That's pretty damn good to me.
It's slightly lower than FFXII, which is 90% perfect, and Gears of War, which rates a massive 8/10s of a point higher than TP. But is that really a big deal when the game gets a glowing review anyways? Read the actual text or, even better, wait a day and play the game yourself rather than getting up in arms over a number.
I'm not even sure if I'll be buying the Wii tomorrow(I sure as hell didn't buy the PS3). I work from 4-10:15 Saturday night, then 8-4 Sunday morning, so I don't know if I'll really want to wait at Wal-Mart in between. I mainly want to do it for Austin since he's out of town for some young leader's conference in Washington DC at the moment. It was really stressful for him to take care of all his work and extracurricular crap before leaving, so it would be nice to see him happy for a change. ^^;
I still need to get into FFXII and beat Metroid Prime 2, plus there's FFV Advance and FFIII DS, so I'm not in a huge hurry. Never enough time in the day. :/
For the record, I would give Valkyrie Profile 2 a score of 12 orgasms alongside a hot plate of crispy bacon. Kingdom Hearts 2 isn't quite at that level, but it's on par with having a vintage Darth Vader action figure that's MISB and signed by James Earl Jones, David Prowse, and George Lucas. I'm not sure how either of those convert to a scale of 1 to 10.