Reply To: Feedback on Games

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Sorry, and another thought…

There’s currently no way to distinguish between unrated and zero-rated.   If you think that a game is brilliant but has rubbish art then you can rate it 2, 2, 2, 0, 2 and be satisfied with awarding it 8/10 over all.

If you’ve got the main rulebook and all the sourcebooks for a roleplaying game and you want to rate the writing and the artwork highly, but you’ve only played a couple of games, you’re forced to either lie or give the game poor ratings for categories that you actually don’t want to judge it on.

Realising this I’m choosing not to rate games that I can’t judge on all categories, but I’d like to be able to rate certain aspects of some games.   I don’t know what the solution should be – or even if it’s a problem worth worrying about – but if you could rate a game as being 5 out of 6 for the 3 categories you rated it and have the system no count unrated categories as zeros and pulling the average down, that might be nice.   You’d have to tweak the rating system so that you had to specify whether you were ‘zero-rating’ a category or no rating it though.