Garrett Blacknova
Codex Troopers
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Posted - 2013.06.04 07:33:00 -
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I've spent time in over a dozen countries where the schooling system considered 50% to be a C grade and is sufficient to pass.
We had exams that were difficult enough to actually be a legitimate challenge to the people doing it, and getting half the possible marks was considered an acceptable result.
Achieving ABSOLUTE PERFECTION 50% of the time is pretty good. Finding the right answer with minor, easily corrected mistakes in your working 100% of the time is pretty good.
Just because your schooling system is terrible, doesn't mean you should assume the entire world is based on the same terrible system.
More to the point though, REVIEWS ARE NOT SCHOOL EXAMS.
The rules are different from one to the next.
And even more to the point, IGN are being taken seriously as a source of legitimate reviews now? When did that happen?
Lets look at something with a better chance of resembling a valid result: Metacritic. It's ALSO unreliable, but it's less ridiculous than trusting a single review site, since it acts as an aggregate result for a variety of sites. Their result for DUST is 60%.
Now lets use a LEGITIMATE method of working out an average. Open up the PS3 games list on Metacritic, set it to "all games" instead of "recent releases", then sort by metascore. Now you'll notice there are 11 pages. Only the first 7 include scores, and DUST 514 is on the 5th page.
Now, rather than terrible math backed by ridiculous assumptions, you have a LOGICAL and RATIONAL argument that DUST is below average.
You're welcome.
And in spite of logic confirming the game is probably below average, I still enjoy it a lot more than the majority of current-gen FPS games. I'm not going to argue that the core mechanics are on a par with the Call of Duty and Battlefield series. The game has blatantly never performed as well as a legitimate AAA title. It's not ready for release, and slapping the "release" label on was a terrible idea. I can see the potential here for something so much better than the usual "AAA" junk title, and I hope CCP don't squander that potential, but right now, I can't honestly claim the game is in a fit state for a release-ready FPS. |