• SkyezOpen@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    10 days ago

    IGN overrating games is like… Their whole thing. Dissing them because they said BF2042 was good when it wasn’t is like talking shit on the rain for making things wet.

    “10/10 IGN” To describe shitty things has been a meme for over a decade, I think.

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      10·
      10 days ago

      IGN scale:

      • 7/10 - we didn’t get paid enough for this, but we don’t want to burn bridges
      • 8/10 - contract stated we could be honest, and the game kinda sucked; OR it was a pretty good indie, but we didn’t get paid
      • 9/10 - pretty good indie, but we don’t want to lump it with the bigger studies; OR bad AAA game, but they paid a lot for this review
      • 10/10 - good enough for the amount they paid for the review
    • lunsjentilanette@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      9 days ago

      Remember back in the days when ign almost never gave 10s? OoT was last 10 for nearly a decade (no looked it up before posting, soul calibur in 1999 was). HL2 and super mario galaxy both got 9.7 which was basically a 10. And when gta 4 got a 10 it was a big deal. I member