I like to score.
Review scores have been a thing since the earliest days of the video game industry. Publications in the early '80s would always rate games on their own scale, using either percentages, stars, letters of the alphabet or - as we do - a rating out of 10. If you grew up with video game magazines such as EGM, GamePro, Mean Machines, CVG and Super Play, then you'll no doubt feel that a review isn't a review unless it has a score attached to it.
However, things appear to be changing; yesterday, Polygon announced that it is dropping review scores and is instead moving to a more simplistic, streamlined system, with 'Recommended' and 'Essential' being the two awards. Anything that doesn't fit in either of these two categories won't carry a score at all, and readers will be encouraged to actually read the body text of the review to find out the reviewer's thoughts. Polygon isn't the first site to take this route, either; Kotaku and Eurogamer employ similar systems, and have done so for quite some time.
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