I think .n would just be unnecessary and redundant. Just round up or down.

Pi will be the next "A+++++, would buy again".

Probably the best would be to srape the whole star business alltogether.

Also more reviews than only three should be shown on default (maybe 6) and the common review language should be english.

Psychonauts suck! :D

well, not that much, but I really didn't like it at all... (I mean the gameplay, the story and humour was great)

that's why it's silly to say some games shouldn't be allowed 5 stars ;)
it isn't English? I don't think I've ever seen a review here in a different language... (but the truth is I rarely look at reviews)

Mostly it is but I think I have seen at least two in italian/spanish lately.

I don't think it's so bad, at least here good games are confirmed to get good ratings, and legitimately shitty games like Daikatana, Forgotten Gods, MoO3, etc, actually get bad ratings here.

Outside GOG every shitty railroaded AAA shooter full of Quick time events and cutscenes gets a near-perfect rating.

BURN THE HERETIC!

(And yes, I agree)

I'm glad Iron Storm doesn't have 5 stars. Though it doesn't deserve 3 1/2 either.

Iron Storm isn't so bad aside from the fact that it's kind of impossible. :P



Slightly off topic, I've been to 190 three times today. What's the record? If I break it do I win a game?

what about having a little star rating thats separate say a heart rating or something that allows you to say its a classic you finally have it awesome gog! so thats where you put your 5star thingy. and actually have the star ratings and review as normal? that way it only adds and extra star (heart) rating to each review?
190?

We really need most prasied reviews and more critical reviews similar to Amazon :P

I do like the reviews on Amazon, I've done some myself and people have found them very helpful.
I think GOG should have a vimeo account where gameplay videos of each game can be hosted. I wouldn't want it on youtube because of youtube's bloat and many a time junk buffering. Vimeo has zero issues.

I don't want to see full play throughs though. Just a snippet of the overall content of each game.

It's been mentioned how the people that need this review advice are the folks who never visit the forums. So how's this for an idea:

Occasionally GOG will do a gem highlight thread, to draw attention to a game that may be overlooked. We could do something similar, but instead of highlighting a game, we have the forum community go in and up/down vote all the reviews on the gamecard page. A sort of "sweeping up" of reviews, to try to clean them out by making sure crappy reviews sink while more thorough reviews rise to the top. We could do one game a week, so we could get them all sorted in only 567 weeks. : / On the plus side though, by having a lot of attention fixed on one game at a time, folks could see a noticeable improvement on the reviews, even if it's only for one game, and this could give greater encouragement to continue fixing others since we'd see something getting done.

Another idea is to alter all those giveaways where people give a game if you vote for something on the wishlist. Instead, have giveaways where people have to go up/down vote reviews for a certain game, to help clean them up.

If the reviews and ratings are being messed up by people who never visit the forums, it's then up to the forum to do what it can to counteract that.

I like rating hard-ons. That is to say, rating the hard-ons of others. GOG could definitely do with more hard-ons for us (me) to rate.

I tend to use a 0-10 scale for rating games, and with the understanding that no game in my lifetime is going to warrant a 10/10 rating. There is no such thing as a perfect game, only ideal ones because of the inherent nature of genre and preference.

Written reviews are very unreliable in my opinion, especially one-off reviews from people who wear rose-tinted glasses or beer goggles, as the case may be. Youtube is my go-to for getting reviews and information about games, because at least I can watch the game in action as the reviewer explains their viewpoint.


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