8 Games Worthy of a Perfect Review Score

[ffronw]

I maintain there is no such thing as an absolutely 100% perfect, flawless game.

Of course, but if 10/10 meant completely perfect it'd be unattainable, and there's no point having a point on a score scale thats impossible to achieve.

Yes, this. When I first started reviewing games back in the dark ages of the 1990s, I often said that I would never give a game a perfect score, because no game is perfect. I quickly learned that you need to use the whole scale, and cutting the 10/10 off just because a game isn't completely perfect is no better than the so-called "7-10" scale that you hear so much about. A perfect score doesn't mean a perfect game. It can be near-flawless and be worthy of a 10.

I thought the community did a nice job on this one.

 

[Whispering Cynic]

If you're using a ten point score then by the magic of rounding up you could find a few tens on this list. I however see some 94/100s and 96/100s here, but a full 100%? No, so far a perfect game has not been made. One day it might be, but the chances of that happening are, shall we say, astronomical.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

Hey, always cool to see my vost cast in one of these lists. Thanks!

 

[Silk_Sk]

I'm proud to have at least played every one of these games. Only completed about half though.

 

[Starbird]

'A Perfect Score' is a very difficult thing to imagine for me. It basically means that, at the time I played it, it was not only the best game in it's genre that I had ever played but there was literally nothing I could possibly think of that would make it better.

From your list (that I've played):

- Arkham Asylum. Great game but lack of enemy variety and some crappy bosses.

- DE:HR. Yeah...it's good. But even in HR the bosses were a letdown, enemy variety was meh and it felt like it was missing about an hour of content at the end.

- Super Metroid. Great title for it's time. However I always found the controls a little slippery for a game that required that level of pinpoint precision.

- Sands of Time. Brilliant game marred by crap combat.

- Okami is probably the only one I'd agree with. There is simply nothing like it.


Games I would have given a perfect 10 to at the time I played them:
> Baldur's Gate 2. Yes, it hasn't aged well but man, at the time it was simply beyond anything I had played before. From story to presentation - just a killer game.

> Half Life.

> Resident Evil 4. Just so damn good, even now.

> God of War 2. Everything that was awesome about the first game made better. Everything that was bad about the first game improved. Insane variety, perfect difficulty curve, mindblowing graphics for the time.