Nice strawman. Here's what I said, with what was implied added in brackets

"Man... it really doesnt help at all that PRETTY MUCH every game on this website [THAT MATTERS ANYWAYS] is given an insta-5/5 by no doubt clueless children. I tend to disagree with the majority of ratings anyways (COD anyone?)."

Because a prerequisite for a game to be on GOOD OLD Games was to be both GOOD and OLD. If the game was here, it was because it had beaten a certain quality threshold. You couldn't find outright bad games here. (And no, that doesn't mean that you had to like all of the games available, because everybody has different tastes).

The rating system, then, sits on top of that threshold. 3-starred games and more are not just good games, they range from the very good to the excellent. And if you still find strange that in a site dedicated to sell GOOD OLD games the range of games available is skewed towards the very good, well, all I can say is... what did you expect? To find tons of good but mediocre, run-of-the-mill games?

I don't follow your logic at all. The part added in brackets can't be inferred from your original statement at all. And in any case, if you already are somehow saying that there is just a subgroup of games in GOG "that matters", why are you surprised that said subgroup contains the games that are universally regarded as excellent? That's what makes them "matter", doesn't it?

And about those "clueless children" comment. Yeah, I can totally picture them registering on GOG just to rate Ultima Underworld 1+2, Wing Commander 4 and Sid Meiers' Colonization with 5 stars. Wait, what?

ROFL. That made my day. I owe you a drink for that.


In much the same way that I and a lot of others here go picking a game while taking ratings into account: by actually reading the ratings that go in-depth into what makes a game particularly worthy of merit, and by filtering out such reviews from the background static. It's not very hard.

This. Ratings without explanation are only numbers with no meaning. It's sad that humanity as a whole is forgetting how to read the reviews - not only on GOG, but everywhere else.