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I'l ask you a quesyion.  Does the Tower II deserve a 1?  Does it really?  If your rommel it does.  Sure maybe its not my best, maybe its not as good as madglee or tsmpaul but a 1. Comon.

Theres no excuse for that.. Its over like 250 pages or something.

When there's story 'games' like that one that was just a link pointing to someone's website, or the Awesome Game You Can't Miss game which I just didn't get at all, I think ratings of 1 should be reserved for things like that. A rating of 1 means to stay away, stay far, far away from it. It means the story game had no planning, no plot, no purpose. I've only ever found about three story games I could honestly rate a 1. The Tower II has some plot, and has some purpose in it, so it has to be more than a 1, regardless of whether you like it or not. Even if you hated it, Rommel, I have to agree with others that it still wouldn't make sense to rate it a 1.

I won't focus on just JJJ's game though - people, when leaving ratings on games, compare them to the worst game you've ever played. If the worst game you've ever played is a 1, then after establishing that, work out what the story you are reading must then be worth.

And some people rate a game an 8 for the wrong reasons too. It couls suck and people will say, "oh, I like the person who wrote it so i'll give it an 8." or they like what it's about so they give it an 8.

riley

i will say this before i continue with the post: i have only read the initial first 5 posts or so...

Why do you care? if you think its good, thats all that matters, if your proud of it, then thats all that matters! who gives a crap if some bozzo gave it a 1, if it was good enough to win in an aspect in the contest, then i think that sings a much louder chorus than that 1....

aight.... thats all i wanted to say....

ahh well......... im just gonna say, life aint fair sometimes LOL sorry thats offtopic :P'

well, i think, like all of you have said, we need a better rating/comment system...

What could it be changed to?

Well theres a rating curve per person so if someone rates 80% of the games an 8 then rating a game an 8 counts as a 4.5 towards the rating.

IF someone rates all games a 2 then if they rate it a 2 it counts as a 4.  A 1 would be a 2 and a 3 would be a 5 etc.

I like yours much better.

I jsut threw my idea out there.

Actually, you reject my "Versions" idea out of hand just because it is related to ratings. Now you contradict yourself by putting in a similar system.

Ah, I see. Yours is geared to stop people rating a game 1 randomly, and mine is geared to make a second version without the outdated ratings...