History Main / BrokeTheRatingscale

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** Various tournament formats have their respective banlists, but Vintage is the only format where all cards, no matter how absurdly broken (such as the legendary Power Nine), are legal, although the strongest cards are nevertheless restricted to one copy per deck, with only truly problematic cards such as ante cards (which run afoul with real-life gambling laws) being banned for reasons other than gameplay and power level. However, [[https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=479746 Lurrus of the Dream-Den]] proved itself ''so overpowered even in Vintage'' that it became [[https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/may-18-2020-banned-and-restricted-announcement the very first (and so far only) card banned in a format where the most powerful game breakers are legal]]. This ban was only lifted when Companion mechanic, an overall-overpowered mechanic that Lurrus and a handful other broken cards have, was nerfed.

** Various tournament formats have their respective banlists, but Vintage is the only format where, barring very specific cards (such as ante cards which run afoul with gambling laws in several countries), ''every card'', no matter how broken, is legal, although the most powerful GameBreaker are limited to one copy per deck. However, [[https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=479746 Lurrus of the Dream-Den]] ended up proving itself ''so overpowered even in Vintage'' that ''[[https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/may-18-2020-banned-and-restricted-announcement it became the very first card to be banned in a format where the most powerful game breakers are legal]]''. This ban was eventually reversed when one of the main cause of Lurrus ridiculous power level, its Companion mechanic, is nerfed.

* Rage Reviews (a review group on Website/FimfictionDotNet) normally grades fanfics on a scale of 0% to 100% Rage, with higher percentages being worse scores. But for stories even worse, inspiring the hatred of multiple reviewers, there's the 120% Rage score. And for stories even worse than that, there's 200% Rage, which can only be awarded with permission from the group's founder. And beyond even that, the group made a "Literally Broke the Scale" score, represented by a .gif that randomly cycles through various four-digit percentages. That one was initially created just as a joke -- but they wound up actually awarding it to ''The Rise of Spike the Dragon''.

* Filmmaker Dan Bell has two main series on his Website/YouTube channel: one where he explores dying/dead malls, and another where he explores creepy and/or [[NoTellMotel sleazy]] hotels and motels across the country with his friends. They often rate the properties on a 1-5 scale with 5 being best, given how rundown they are. After discovering a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvNbsi4aDuk motel in Maryland]] where the rooms were literally ''covered in blood'', one of Bell's companions gave the room a 0.

* Rage Reviews (a review group on Website/FimfictionDotNet) normally grades fanfics on a scale of 0% to 100% Rage. For stories that exist on a completely different axis, they have a few other scores: "??%" for stories that are too confusing to inspire rage, "MEH" for stories that are too boring to get angry over, and "SAD" for stories that just make the reviewer feel sorry for the author.

** Website/YouTube game reviewer WebVideo/ProJared did something similar in his [[http://youtu.be/0FsrzqJNQF8 One-Minute Review of the game]]. He just showed himself struggling to get into the game, gave up 10 seconds into the review, and just ended it with the line, "F*** it, I'm going to bed," cutting to a black screen for the rest of the one-minute video.

* Mark Rosewater, head designer for ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'', has a "Storm Scale" of how unlikely he thinks it is for a particular mechanic to return to Standard, so named because the infamous {{Game Break|er}}ing mechanic "Storm" is the definition of a 10. The only mechanic he's ever given an 11 is {{That One|Rule}} {{Useless Useful|Spell}} ScrappyMechanic, "Bands with other".

* ''Game Pro Magazine'', in the January 1997 issue, gave ''VideoGame/BattleArenaToshinden URA'' for the UsefulNotes/SegaSaturn a 0.5 fun factor. Up until that point, the lowest score a game could get in ANY category (Graphics, Sound, Control, Fun Factor) was a 1.0. This (along with a rather negative fan reaction to the reviewer faces they were using at this time) was probably what prompted Gamepro to change their reviewing faces in the next issue.

* ''Amiga Concept'', a French UsefulNotes/{{Amiga}} magazine, gave a -31% score to the PortingDisaster of ''VideoGame/{{Battletoads}}''.

* The website ''Game Revolution'' often rates the video games it reviews on a five-star scale (with 1 star being the lowest). The first (and so far only) game to earn a zero-star rating from them was the UsefulNotes/WiiU minigame compilation ''Family Party: 30 Great Games Obstacle Arcade'', citing that every single aspect of the game, right down to the [[NeverTrustATitle title]], was horrible.

* In WebVideo/ScottTheWoz's video covering E3 1995, the same video that introduced his five knee-slap scale (a standard for his videos covering the various E3 conferences, keeping this from being a Meaningless Comparison), [[MicDrop Sony's "$299" moment]][[labelnote:Explanation:]]Sega had just announced the UsefulNotes/SegaSaturn was available in retailers across America ''right then'', rather than in four months as originally announced, for $399; Sony simply announced afterwards that the UsefulNotes/PlayStation would launch for a hundred dollars less[[/labelnote]] caused Scott to slap his knee at such a rapid and continuous rate that he was visibly scarred and bloody, going up to fourteen knee-slaps before the video cut away from Scott slapping his knee.

* In his review of ''3, 2, 1, Smurf!'', WebVideo/{{Caddicarus}} jokes that the game "was also one of the only games in the world that Official UK UsefulNotes/{{Playstation}} Magazine gave a "FUCK OFF AND DIE" out of ten". (They actually gave it a 1/10.)

** When TOM reviewed ''Dropship: United Peace Force'' for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation2 the game received a “?” rating. Tom had no idea how to rate the game since he could never get past the sixth level. This was accompanied by repeated footage of TOM losing on that level. (And per the guy in charge of Toonami, [[https://twitter.com/Clarknova1/status/208662351057141760 to this day, they still haven't beaten it.]])

* ''The Wrestling Observer Newsletter'' became famous for these simply because few reviewed matches ever get more than 3 or less than 1 from the publication, at least when the difficult to impress Dave Meltzer is the one reviewing...that was until 1984 in Madison Square Garden when David Schultz defeated Rocky Johnson[[note]]as in Wrestling/{{Dwayne|Johnson}}'s father[[/note]] in a match Dave Meltzer gave "minus 3 stars". This was surpassed at the 1985 ''The Wrestling Classic'' after Meltzer rated a match between Wrestling/JunkyardDog and [[Wrestling/TheMoonDogs Moondog Spot]] "minus 5 stars", which presumably means cannot get any worse.[[note]]As of April 2022 5 matches have received the full negative monty and 109 matches have been rated below DUD.[[/note]]
* On the positive end, Meltzer first broke the rating scale for a June 3rd 1994 match at Wrestling/AllJapanProWrestling, which had been shooting 5 out regularly during the decade, between Wrestling/MitsuharuMisawa and Toshiaki Kawada, which got 6 stars to symbolize he thought it might have been the greatest pro wrestling match of all time. Another match wouldn't get such a rating from Meltzer until the ''Wrestle Kingdom 11'' main event between Wrestling/KennyOmega and then-reigning [[Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling IWGP]] Heavyweight champion Wrestling/KazuchikaOkada on January 4th 2017. Meltzer then later stated that the second match between Omega and Okada a few months later at ''Dominion 6.11'' was better than the first, giving it 6.25 stars. A year later, at ''Dominion 6.9'', the Omega/Okada 2 out of 3 falls title match scored ''seven'' stars. The first Omega/Okada match sort of acted as a breakthrough moment, as since then Meltzer has awarded more matches to those he believes deserve it, mostly crediting the newer age of wrestling for having better in-ring action than before.

* Meltzer was "impressed" again when he rated the abysmal main event of ''Hell In A Cell 2019'', which ended in a no contest due to {{kayfabe}} fear of injury, as "-2 stars".

** Tesla's follow up, the Model S [=P85D=], broke the Consumer Reports scale and [[http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2015/08/28/tesla_model_s_p85d_breaks_consumer_reports_ratings_scores_103_out_of_100.html earned a 103 out of 100]].

* When pro wrestling reviewer Creator/ScottKeith has to review a particularly horrendous match, and the 5-star to negative 5-star system fails to express how disgusted he is with the product, he breaks out the "Hot Poker up the Ass" rating system. The general idea behind is that he takes one person (usually the main guy responsible for the horrible show, such as Wrestling/VinceRusso) and rates each segment by the number of hot pokers that person deserves to have shoved up their ass for subjecting viewers to it. Wrestling/KevinNash and Wrestling/{{WCW}} announcer Tony Schiavone have been victims of this as well.

* Bryan Alvarez described the Wrestling/{{n|ewWorldOrder}}Wo Souled Out Pay-Per-View from 1997 as "twenty asses."

* Air pollution in TheNewTens in China has gotten so bad that it broke the Air Quality Index used by the EPA, which once topped out at 500. [[https://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/13/science/earth/beijing-air-pollution-off-the-charts.html In 2013 the @beijingair Twitter account]], which used readings from the US embassy there, was forced coin a new term for AQI above 500; fittingly, it was "Beyond Index".

* Present in snakesonasora’s famous sporking of the ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' badfic [[http://snakesonasora.livejournal.com/2619.html#cutid1 "Naga Eyes"]]. The rating scale (sometimes more a warning scale) is typically 1 to 5 [[TheGoomba Shadows]]. For particularly terrible fics, there exists a rare rating of [[BigBad Ansem]], which includes everything from 5 Shadows plus extra-high doses of WTF-ery. "Naga Eyes" earned an Ansem, but with this addition attached:

** He chose to remove the film ''Film/{{Shoah}}'' from his list of candidates for the top ten films of 1985 (in its place appeared ''Literature/TheColorPurple''). He felt it deserved higher accolades.

* WebVideo/CrashThompson gave ''One More Light'' by Music/LinkinPark 0.5/5, suggesting that there was a possible 0 score. In 2019, Creator/DougWalker's [[Recap/TheNostalgiaCriticS12E33 parody of]] Music/PinkFloyd's ''Music/TheWall'' was that zero.

* WebVideo/SchaffrillasProductions' ranking of the ''VideoGame/MarioKart8Deluxe'' courses has him, upon request, rank the Battle Mode courses from the original iteration of ''VideoGame/MarioKart8''. As these were existing courses and none of them were built for Battle Mode, he ranks them in reverse order and expresses heightened frustration with them, to the point where nearly all of them are F-tier. In particular, he called Toad's Turnpike so deeply painful of an experience that he doesn't think F-tier accurately conveys his feelings toward it, and assigns it to G-tier.