IGN to knock 80 points off its review scale

Folks, times are changing and it doesn't look good. It seems our buds at IGN will be revamping its review system. This is according to Hillary Goldstein of IGN

I'm referring to our review scale which has, since IGN's inception more than a decade ago, scored games on a 100-point scale. That changes today.

After many long discussions (and really, this has been going on for years), we've decided to alter our review scale. From today forward, we will score games on a 20-point scale (meaning games score will be 7.0 or 7.5 or 8.0, etc.).

This is an outrage to us geeks. Gone will be the day where one point justifies that game a is better than game b. And here's is Hilary's justification to the bastardization of the score system

But more and more the score (with a 100-point scale) has come to define the game, which is not our intention. The score should say, "This game is in the same league as these other games of the same score" and the criticism lives within the text (which we hope you all read) as well as the discussions that occur after the review.

My hope is that by simplifying the score, we open up further debate. The "best" game won't be determined strictly by a tenth of a point (as is the current case with Mass Effect 2 and Red Dead Redemption) but instead by legitimate discussion comparing the quality of two games that are relative equals.

But here's the thing Hilary. We don't want legitimate discussion. We want to flame each other over a stupid review score by a single decimal to determine what game is good and what game is bad. Next thing you'll know, other review sites will be doing the same thing, like Gamespot, or Destructoid....wait. Destructoid does something like that.

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