->'''Marge:''' Who wants pork chops?\\
'''Homer:''' Sorry, Marge, this gets my lowest rating ever: Seven thumbs up.
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS11E3GuessWhosComingToCriticizeDinner Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner?]]"

->''"Overall, I give it 7/10, which is the least you can give a game before the company pulls their advertising."''
-->-- '''Creator/StuartAshen''', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXxttqyOGWU "YouTube - Gamestation review"]]

->''"In game reviews the main text is always the beef and the score is just a decoration, but we still always try to score each game as accurately as possible. But the score demands that our readers can read them properly. First you round the score down, since the first number is practically the only one that matters. A 9 means it's an excellent game, an 8 is a good game and a 7 is okay, and you can pretty much forget the rest. You don't need a 100-point scale for this."''
-->-- '''Niko Nirvi''', Finnish game reviewer and columnist

->''"If you get one and a half stars on the fuckin' internet, that's like being at the Special Olympics and having them tell you, 'you have to leave'."''
-->-- '''LetsPlay/{{slowbeef}}''', WebVideo/{{Retsupurae}}, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8DPqz-eVsE "Happy Halloween!"]]

->'''slowbeef:''' First of all, it's only got a 3.68 out of 5.\\
'''LetsPlay/{{Diabetus}}:''' That's like... F minus, right?
-->-- '''Retsupurae''', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qKBtcWqL7Y "Death Trap (2/2)"]]

->''"Since our game will change the face of the industry forever, here’s a unique score system that you’ll need in order to judge this game:''\\
'''''10: Perfect game (our game most likely deserves this)'''''\\
'''''9.0 Excellent game'''''\\
'''''8.0 Pretty decent game and still good enough for a Metacritic bonus so use it if you must'''''\\
'''''7.0 Absolute shit that only games without big publishers deserve'''''\\
'''''6.0 Not used'''''\\
'''''5.0 Not used'''''\\
'''''4.0 Not used'''''\\
'''''3.0 Not used'''''\\
'''''2.0 Not used'''''\\
'''''1.0 Not used'''''\\
''Please consult the above chart for this title, and any future games we send you."''
-->-- '''[[http://www.gamezone.com/originals/jim_sterlings_super_innovative_review_guide Jim Sterling’s Super Innovative Review Guide]]'''

->''"I mean, some reviewers gave it, like, 6 out of 10. In professional reviewing circles that's the equivalent of burning it to the ground and salting the earth."''
-->-- '''[[WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw]]''' on ''VideoGame/{{Prototype 2}}''

->"''VideoGame/AliensColonialMarines'' is bad, guys. It's a digital nightmare from which I '''cannot''' wake."\\
"So, it's a seven?"\\
"No. I need you to bring me... '''the forbidden numbers'''."
-->-- '''Two reviewers''' in ''Webcomic/PennyArcade'', "[[https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2013/02/13 Xenotriptych]]"

->Why did Play Magazine give VideoGame/{{Lair}} a '''''nine''''' out of ten, and not the ten out of ten it so richly deserved? Why? Because it was just '''''too''''' awesome. Now, my life is empty.
-->-- ''Webcomic/PennyArcade'', "[[http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/09/03 What People Are Saying]]"

->"Anyone who's ever watched Olympic figure skating or high-diving (yes and yes, religiously) knows that you can break an ankle or crack your skull on the diving platform and still limp to the finish with a five. You get a five for showing up.
-->-- '''[[http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-recent-movies-that-got-way-more-praise-than-they-deserved_p2/ Adam Tod Brown]]''' on the climax of ''Film/SilverLiningsPlaybook''

->''"The worst of the worst from Website/{{Newgrounds}}, the web, iPad, and other sources that deserve the full scorn that an 8 out of 10 offers."''
-->-- ''WebVideo/{{Retsupurae}}''[='=]s description of the Retsufrash Playlist

->''"I got lost and wandered into the world's creepiest cemetery where the headstones all had star ratings on them. Freaked me out. When I got home I tried to leave the cemetery a bad review on Yelp, but as my hand hovered over the 'one star' button I felt this distant chill..."''
-->-- '''The AltText''' of [[http://xkcd.com/1098/ this]] ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}'' strip

->''"Giving something like Sensible World of Soccer[[labelnote:*]]the magazine's favorite Amiga game of all time[[/labelnote]] 95% is utterly devalued if you also give, for example, ''VideoGame/RiseOfTheRobots''[[labelnote:*]]a famously overhyped fighting game, rated 5% by the magazine - which, for the record, they couldn't get a review out for until months after the fact because of that score[[/labelnote]] 92%. Percentage ratings are meaningless unless you use the full range, and you can't give credit where it's due if you're pretending that everything's good. What encouragement does that give developers to produce quality? They might as well knock it out at half the cost and in a third of the time if they're only going to get another 3% for doing it properly. Of course, the market will die much faster if people get continually stiffed by crap games, but hey - there's always another machine to move to and start the cycle again."''
-->-- '''Stuart Campbell''', on the death of the Platform/{{Amiga}} in the last issue of ''Magazine/AmigaPower''

->''"We all have limits on how low we're willing to go when it comes to review scores. When a game that I'm interested in gets a six from [=GameSpot=] or one of the other sites I frequent, such a score manifests a shred of doubt in my mind. Considering how skewed scores often are--I've seen many jokes about the supposed 7-10 scale reviewers employ--a game has to be close to putrid to crash below that magic threshold, right? Well, yes and no. (...) Games that score a six or--[[FelonyMisdemeanor heaven forbid!]]--a five [[RuleOfFun can still be a lot of fun]]. I really hope that people (myself included) can look past a score that seems a tad low."''
-->-- '''Tom Mc Shea''' of [=GameSpot=], "[[http://www.gamespot.com/articles/in-defense-of-the-60/1100-6349597/ In Defense of the 6.0]]"

->''"YOU SAID [[BlandNameProduct DIAMOND MERCENARIES 2]] SUCKED, BUT YOU GAVE IT A 6 OUT OF 10! THAT IMPLIES IT WAS ABOVE AVERAGE!"''
-->-- '''Mr. Torgue''' to a game reviewer [[SeriousBusiness he's hired you to kill]] in ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands 2}}''

->''"I found out that an 8 out of 10 fifteen years ago is exactly the same as an 8 out of 10 now. It's completely meaningless. In 2014, [=GameSpot=]'s Game of the Year was VideoGame/MiddleEarthShadowOfMordor. They gave this game an 8. So, in conclusion an 8 out of 10 game can be Game of the Year material. Perhaps it could be [[Videogame/{{Crysis}} a graphical benchmark for an entire generation]], it could be every VideoGame/CallOfDuty game ever made and that ever will be made, or it can simply just be Don Bradman's Cricket. Sure, yeah, why not, I mean even VideoGame/SniperElite, I've already proven was at the least an 8. Truthfully, everything is an 8 out of 10. There's no exceptions."''
-->-- '''Webvideo/{{STAR}}''' talking about ''Jackie Chan's Stuntmaster'', a [=PS1=] game he found terrible, and its 8 out 10 review; "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V90vdClMs3U Jackie Chan is an 8/10]]"

->''"That's the polite way of saying [VideoGame/CounterStrike: Condition Zero - Deleted Scenes] was a generic corridor shooter strangely reminicisent of present day Call Of Dutys (Duties?) that was so bad the finished product had to be scrapped for generating average review scores of 60%, dangerously close to the minimum score videogame outlets are allowed to publish."''
-->--'''Lacedaemonius''', LetsPlay of ''[[https://lparchive.org/Counter-Strike-Condition-Zero-Deleted-Scenes/ Condition Zero Deleted Scenes]]''

->''"Of course, I had to find out whether ''Dragon'' praised the game with 5/5 stars or slammed it with 4/5 stars..."''
-->--[[http://crpgaddict.blogspot.com/2017/08/megatraveller-2-summary-and-rating.html The CRPG Addict]]

->''"Seven out of 10 - A clear indicator that either a game has nothing to make it particularly interesting, or that a reviewer has no balls (metaphorically speaking)."''
-->--'''[[https://www.gamesradar.com/the-100-lamest-game-industry-cliches/ Mikel Reparaz]]''', "[[ReviewerStockPhrases The 100 lamest game-industry clichés]]"

->''"[...] and by 'skewed', I of course refer to the omnipresent traditional 10-point-scale of 7-to-9 signifying 'good', 10 being 'perfect', and anything lower than 6 having the unbridled allure of a school shooting."''
-->--'''WebVideo/TheRageaholic''' on "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pss0hJkmLBA The Downfall of Gaming Journalism #9: GAME INFORMER]]"

->''The Source'' was like our only source of light\\
when the mics used to mean somethin', a four was, like,\\
you were the shit -- now it's like the least you get!\\
Three and a half now just means you're a piece of shit.\\
Four and a half or five means you're [[Music/TheNotoriousBIG Biggie]], [[Music/JayZ Jigga]], Music/{{Nas}}\\
[[SmallNameBigEgo or Benzino]] — shit, I don't even think you realize\\
you're playin' with motherfuckers' lives
-->--Music/{{Eminem}}, "The Sauce" (a DissTrack aimed at Benzino)

->''"Literally, we've got a half dozen perfect scores and I've also gotten the lowest scores I've ever gotten on any game I've ever worked on. Of course you want everybody to think you made the best game ever, but if we were trending at something like an 8 out of 10? I'd probably have to kill myself."''
-->-- '''Creator/WarrenSpector''' on ''VideoGame/EpicMickey'''s reception.

->I find it fucking incredible how an eight and an eighth out of ten is considered to be unacceptable - doing something 88% percent right is a terrible strategy for keeping a job, but when you're working with something as hard as making art, it's generally a miracle that you do everything even 70% right.
-->-- '''Froghand''', from [[https://froghand.neocities.org/reviewers.html Review of Game Reviewers]].
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