After posting the new Zero Wing (TCD) review and adding it to the Contents page, I thought that it would be a good idea to add the scores next to the names of games I have reviewed in the Contents page in the link in the top bar.\u00c2\u00a0 So, I added scores to the list.\u00c2\u00a0 Sites usually do list the score next to the link to a game’s review article, and that page is where I have such a list.\u00c2\u00a0 While doing so, I found that a few reviews didn’t have scores, so I went to my game-collection database and used the numbers I’d put there as a basis for a score.<\/p>\n
Here are the five game reviews which now have scores:<\/p>\n
The scores have been added to the review articles.<\/p>\n
As for how I score games, I’m probably an easy grader, my “average” score is probably a bit above average.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m okay with that though, games are often fun!\u00c2\u00a0 My scores use a variety of formats — most are letter grades, but some have a 10-point scale, and some use a percent scale, but whichever format the score is in, the way I grade does not change, so I don’t think there’s any reason to redo all the old reviews into one format.\u00c2\u00a0 I generally grade with a school-grade-style system, regardless of what point system I’m using.\u00c2\u00a0 I use the grading system I grew up with in school.\u00c2\u00a0 So:<\/p>\n
In school, if you got less than a 60 it is considered failing, and I score games the same way.\u00c2\u00a0 I don’t use the “5 is average” scale, I prefer this one.\u00c2\u00a0 I switched from always using a percent-based score to mostly just giving letter grades in part because it should help alleviate the issue of people reading percent scores different ways — what a C or D is is clear, while the equivalent 75% or 65% score will be read differently by different people.\u00c2\u00a0 Also while I do like specificity, the difference, for instance, between a 73% and 77% score isn’t enough to need to list it with the review, really; the review texts hopefully will make those differences clear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
After posting the new Zero Wing (TCD) review and adding it to the Contents page, I thought that it would be a good idea to add the scores next to the names of games I have reviewed in the Contents … Continue reading