RF Generation Message Board

Hmm, that's a good point.  I might be a little guilty myself of tacking on an extra 5% when I rate a game that I know is good and it has a rating of like 50% or less.

Maybe it might be a good idea to make someone have atleast 100 posts in the forums before they could rate a game, that way we kinda know who they are and know they are reliable enough to give a fair score.  The same could apply to the price guide.  What do you think of that?  :)

Basing it on a members posts is not fair either.

Then you would get people who would put up 100 +1 posts or lose the insite of people who may prefer to lurk around.

In the end you really have to just hope people are honest.
Which can really be a shame sometimes.

Plus I don't think it says who gave the rating.

Yes, but we (The Administrators of the site) know who are purposefully tanking the rating system.  :evilhappy:
In an ideal system, there would be so many votes that these bad ratings would be offset by all the people who overrate the games, but not many people rate the games.

Moral of the story: RATE THE GAMES!!!

We do? :laugh:

Yes, I am not going to but I could tell you who gave all good Nintendo games a rating of 5.

I thought about retaliating against his beloved PAL sega games, but that just wouldn't be nice.

This list seems extremely skewed though...
http://www.rfgeneration.com/cgi-bin/toprated.pl

Yea it does.

Were did all the Mortal Kombat games go???

I thought you were talking about me there...but all the "good" Nintendo games I've rated poorly are games I really don't like all that much...and I don't think I've rated many PAL Sega games :P

To the bottom of the list like they should be.

Nah, I have faith that you know that Chrono Trigger does not deserve a rating of 5.

Yeah should be a 4

I'll smite thee.

LOL... nice one Tynstar

I was joking. I have never played the game. I have it for SNES and wasnt it released on the PSX?

I've got it on PSX.  :)  Haven't played it much yet though.

Chrono Trigger, I'd say 8.5 :P

i would love to have a copy of chrono trigger for the snes. luckily i found a friend that has all 3 final fantasy games for snes (just 2, 3 and 4). hes gonna sell me all 3 for $100. on ebay they go for $30-$40 so i guess i am getting a deal. idk. but chrono trigger being a 5. wtf? it deserves at least a 7 or 8.

On the RFG system, we have a 100 point scale, with a 5 being the lowest possible rating.

How crazy is it that a game which consistently cracks the top 10 best games ever list receives 5s, from people here. I have little faith in the user review system here, therefore, I look at the top rated games and laugh.

I don't see the difference between the RFG user rating system and any other user rating system...since as long as anonymous members can submit any score they desire, the rating is potentially skewed.  As mentioned before, though, the more people that submit ratings, the more accurate the rating, in general.  For example, on imdb.com, the best movies have multiple tens of thousands of votes, and the rating averages to a high score, even though, inevitably, there are people who gave such movies a score of 1. 

Yup, if we get the voters it'll even out.

from now on when i add my games to my collection i am going to put a rating on them.

I'm already on it. Too bad SEGA games all deserve 5's anyway. Nights: Into Dreams still makes me cringe.

Now THAT is blasphemy.  But hey, diff'ernt strokes and all that. lol