An Analysis Of IGN Review Scores
Posted Sunday, August 6th, 2006 at 6:11 pm by MJG
Well, it was significantly harder to grab IGN’s scores because of their tendency to throw interstitial ads at you. But it’s done. The histogram reveals IGN’s weirdo 20-point/100-point scale waffling. I’m tempted to round their scores to the nearest .5 and force them onto a 20-point scale.
Still, their most common score being an 8.0 is revealing. Not to mention there being almost as many 9.0’s as there are 6.0’s.
Now that I have two review outlets in the database, I’m going to spend more time working on the presentation of the site and the tools that will let users get more detailed information for one single site (like comparing score breakdowns by platform), as well as comparing between sites.
August 9th, 2006 at 2:01 am
This is something I always wished I could compile but never did. There have been many discussions on the net recently about game journalism/game critics but the discussions always seemed to meander away from more pressing and glaring problems like the 7-9 scale. I think there are still lots of people who don’t really understand it, so I hope these entries and the new site will get the attention they deserve.