Quoted from ParisPinballAdct:All right.
this is 5 games in the top 10 "All Time" which have been on the market for less than two years. Most are actually one year old, or less.
How can that happen, seriously? where's the credibility here: how can we allow any game featuring "25 ratings" to match, say, Twilight Zone's 1366 ratings or Medieval Madness' 1679 ratings.Wondering if I'm the only one finding this totally ridiculous, and actually very much misleading...
Frankly, it is amazing the 90's games have held up as well as they have over the years in the face of better technology (such as full RBG lighting, LCD displays, etc.) and the ridiculously deeper code and improved sound and sound packages of modern games. I understand the 90's games had more toys that interacted with the ball and what not...but if you put a stock original MM up next to a stock Stern Jurassic Park LE the differences are readily apparent.
That said, I do personally agree some sort of rating system overhaul would be welcome, I've long argued against legacy votes from years ago from people that are no longer part of the community staying in the system. There are a lot of small things that could make the rating system more "legit" but as chuckwurt already noted these things are built in now...you can make the top 100 take into account many different factors if you do not like the default settings.