Posted March 06, 2015
I've always been very skeptical of the reviews on gog on games that have a ton of 5 stars and especially really old games where the reviewer is talking about how great the game was on release. Often times the game has not aged well and will be a major turn off to new players.
Is this just the norm when it comes to old time games? That our sense of nostalgia causes us to rate stuff higher than we should?
As an example, if you sort games by rating there's 20 pages of games. Games don't reach a 3 star rating until halfway through page 18. That means something close to 90% of the games on gog are reviewed to be 3.5 star or better! That'd be like a 70% on metacritic which I consider a pretty average rating, but on gog almost every game is average or better.
Then if you look on the high end, games don't drop to 4 stars until page 10! That means over half the games are 4.5 or better, or 90% rating! Are you serious?
I'm just struggling to see how a lot of really old titles stack up. For example ultima 1-3 is an 4 star average rating. I never played ultima originally but I got it off gog on sale to try it. And I hated it. It is simply too old and clunky to draw me away from modern rpg interpretations such as dragon age series. Maybe people will flame me but it's akin to those top 100 video game lists that put pong in the top 10 out of respect for the history of the game.
Of course the 5 star rating system might have something to do with it also. It's a pretty big jump to go from perfect rating to 80% rating, down to 60% for 3 star if you feel the ratings should convert. But I feel like an average game should be 3, good to great ones 4 and amazing, life changing ones only 5s, but so many on here seem overrated.
Thanks just my take anyway, curious if anyone agrees.
Is this just the norm when it comes to old time games? That our sense of nostalgia causes us to rate stuff higher than we should?
As an example, if you sort games by rating there's 20 pages of games. Games don't reach a 3 star rating until halfway through page 18. That means something close to 90% of the games on gog are reviewed to be 3.5 star or better! That'd be like a 70% on metacritic which I consider a pretty average rating, but on gog almost every game is average or better.
Then if you look on the high end, games don't drop to 4 stars until page 10! That means over half the games are 4.5 or better, or 90% rating! Are you serious?
I'm just struggling to see how a lot of really old titles stack up. For example ultima 1-3 is an 4 star average rating. I never played ultima originally but I got it off gog on sale to try it. And I hated it. It is simply too old and clunky to draw me away from modern rpg interpretations such as dragon age series. Maybe people will flame me but it's akin to those top 100 video game lists that put pong in the top 10 out of respect for the history of the game.
Of course the 5 star rating system might have something to do with it also. It's a pretty big jump to go from perfect rating to 80% rating, down to 60% for 3 star if you feel the ratings should convert. But I feel like an average game should be 3, good to great ones 4 and amazing, life changing ones only 5s, but so many on here seem overrated.
Thanks just my take anyway, curious if anyone agrees.