Still, this system does allow for people to know if I recommend the game or not and sometimes tells a bit about what circumstances I recommend the game under. Often I find value in even the worst of games and that makes my reviews less useful (if movie reviewer gave every movie a 10 their reviews would be rather pointless) but this forces me to say exactly what I think the game deserves.

I do still find numbered reviews to be… pigeonholing, often because it does not tell us how good a certain game is when compared to others of its type. BGG is great but when ever “Amera Trash” game comes in with a low over all rating a person looking for a game of that type is left out in the cold. Of course… that “type” in this case actually includes a lot of different types…

Enough rambling… back to work.

Certainly looking through your table of ratings you’ve given to your previously reviewed games, of those I have played I agree in each case.

This is also both easier and probably more genuine than implementing a sytem we discussed at one point in the past, providing review ratings or feedback from a handful of imaginary gamer-archetype characters (I think what I liked most about that was how I imagined their cartoon portraits).

Perhaps I’ll also adopt this system when I next write a game review.