Glad to see I'm not going crazy, and other people see this too!
Just had a look at the games I bought over the past three years on gamespot, and all got above 8.5, despite some having minor or major flaws. On the scale that Oblivion gets 9.3 and Mass Effect gets 9.0, why does NWN2 and NWN2:Mask of the betrayer get 8.6 and 8.0 respectively?
I guess I'll be sticking to older games, those that stand the test of time. There are games out there that I rate, but many games lack certain qualities that were present in older games. The industry doesn't want to stick its neck out for some reason, in the same way that perhaps it did years back. Perhaps its a big business thing, everyone is aiming for huge sales figures with the standard 13-18 male console gaming demographic, and I'm out of that bracket by some way now. With the success of the Wii for the "family" and "casual" demographics, I would have thought someone could gamble for the slightly older audience.
Ah well, here's hoping for something decent from Iron Tower Studio's Age of Decadence.
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