Quoted from Psw757:I think the highest and lowest scores should be tossed when figuring the average.
Nothing is perfect and really no modern game deserves to be anything below a 5 or 6.
There just hasn’t been anything that bad.
I disagree on this because that would just be silly to have a swath of middle-of-the-road modern games clumped together.
Highs and lows have their place. Like some people genuinely hate Baby Pac-Man. Personally it’s one of my top 5 greats. But I understand the hate because the first few times you play it that game is ridiculously brutal. Lots of places have the settings totally wrong so it’s not fun at all.
On the opposite end, some moderns have been incredible. WOZ/JP jump out off the top of my head. They really deserve to stand up taller than their contemporaries.
Quoted from pinballmike150:"I realize this has been covered before but just had to say the rating should be honest and for fun. I know we all like different. But it’s also clear when a game is being rated just to lower the overall rating."
I agree with you. It is obvious that some users try to inflate the ratings of new pins that they are trying to flip. 1.0 ratings should never be allowed, as they are bogus. The pinside users that submit these ratings should be banned from pinside. I know they will then just create a new user and give a new sandbag rating. To attempt to solve this, maybe ratings should only be allowed from verified logins.
Not necessarily. It just needs a mystical behind-the-scenes weighting system.
Some of my ideas would be:
Respectable, long time Pinsiders ratings should probably be treated with more respect versus the newbie OP shared.
Post history and possible achievement points also play into rating weights. Comments that are well thought out also give legitimacy to reviews.
Also people USE THE FLAG SYSTEM! Flag bogus reviews.
However there are some games that suck, AC/DC Pro is so ugly and unfun that I can’t imagine giving it anything more than a 4 on a good day.
The premium is so much better it’s ridiculous. It’s practically a different game. That ugly big face they put instead of the mini playfield is unbelievably awful.
