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by Jerry Whorebach 09/20/2010, 12:07pm PDT

Rafiki wrote:

So some sites were handing out perfect scores for this game. Those sites are ridiculous. It's a great game, but I wouldn't call it perfect.

There's no such thing as a perfect score; 100/100 just means that a game is one in a hundred. On a system like the Wii, which has well over six hundred games, 100/100 for Mario Galaxy would place it somewhere in the top six or seven. Of course, if reviewers actually understood this, you could pretty much glean everything they had to say about a game from the score alone, and you'd never experience the joy of reading page after page of critical insight into what makes one 85/100 different from all the millions and millions of other 85/100s.

Super Mario Galaxy 2 by Rafiki 09/20/2010, 10:39am PDT NEW

Super Quick Hook (iPhone) by Rafiki 09/20/2010, 10:53am PDT NEW

Borderlands DLC by Rafiki 09/20/2010, 5:53pm PDT NEW

Bioshock 2 by Rafiki 09/20/2010, 6:37pm PDT NEW

Re: Borderlands DLC by Mr. Kool 10/31/2010, 5:48pm PDT NEW

Re: Super Quick Hook (iPhone) by Mysterious Stranger 12/20/2010, 7:34am PST NEW

That was me :( NT by mark 12/20/2010, 7:35am PST NEW

Hey, who wants to know my opinion on perfect scores? Anybody? by Jerry Whorebach 09/20/2010, 12:07pm PDT NEW

All reviews should include a description of enemies and controls. NT by Eldjotnar 09/20/2010, 1:52pm PDT NEW

If it were on a curve like that, half the games would score less than 50. by Fullofkittens 09/20/2010, 4:48pm PDT NEW

It depends. They could still claim to only review the "most promising" titles. by Jerry Whorebach 09/20/2010, 5:23pm PDT NEW

They're talking about scores again on GAF but I don't want to register by so I'll just put this here. 10/30/2010, 10:02pm PDT NEW

Re: Super Mario Galaxy 2 by alastair 12/10/2010, 7:54pm PST NEW