You completely missed the point of what he was saying. He wasnt being rude, he was suggesting his own point of view was foolish for trying to find 'idiots' whose opinions were wrong, when in fact the is a pretty strong consensus that the management needs improvement.
Anyway, on topic. To score a game, you need to look at the main aspects of the game and see where they succeeded or failed. I'm glad you dont score games Curly, because most of the magazines would have fired you for bias by now.
To give this game a three is to say that most of it is very bad, which is patently false. The sound design (apart from the isolated screaming bug) is completely excellent. There are NO games with better sound design than this, except for maybe Elite. Theres a 10. The graphics are absolutely stunning and full of charm, better actually than a lot of AAA games. Theres a 9. The gameplay is pretty damn good, except for a couple of janks and tweaks that eed to be made. Theres a 7. The creative freedom you get with the building tools is second to no other game, with the exception of Dwarf Fortress. Another 9. Finally onto the rubbish bits: the management needs a good deal of improvement, and hasnt evolved from any of the previous examples of park builders. Theres a 4. The career mode is mostly crap. We'll say 3 for that. Average them out, and you get 7, which I think is a perfectly fair score. It gives Frontier an idea that 'whoa, theres quite a few improvements we could make here, but at least a lot of what we did was successful'. Giving PC a 3 basically says that no aspect of this game was executed very well, which isn't true and you know it.
I feel most of it is very bad though. That is opinion and reviews are opinions.
Sound (worth a total of 2 points out of the 10 if it was perfect:
I would give this a 7/10 at the moment. There are issues, the mixing is still off for me, the roller coasters have people talking on them, there is no sense of speed from any wind noise whilst in 1st person. The ability to place custom sounds on triggers are not possible. There is a lot there but more is to be done and these may be resolved in the future so will see how it changes but right now they need to sort out the bugs.
This however makes up the first 1 out of 10 then if we was to break the score into segments
Graphics (worth 2 out of 10 as above):
Yes they are excellent for the most part, however we are missing the ability for certain content that makes things look better, the reflections at night (as has been brought up etc are not there yet. The foliage is not near as nice as the rest of the game and this is a big part of it. So I would score this as a 7.5/10 also. That is 1 out of 10 at moment for the overall score making it 2/10 as a game is not made from graphics
The Gameplay (worth 2 points if done right (sandbox, career, challange, scenario being parts that would make it up):
I don't think the gameplay is good at all tbh though, in fact I think it is very shallow with no real interesting gameplay at all because of the issues that make up gameplay. It isn't even a game at the moment, it's a sandbox creator at the moment. The tools have issues as I have outlined as well as others out there agreeing. For me as there is no gameplay. The scenarios are awful tbh and boring, they are repetitive with weak goals and shallow play through. 2/10 as there is sandbox for people. Other than that challange is poor as well. so 0 as an overall to the total score
Building (worth 2 points total):
It is good but there are better things, the Sims 4 actually has a lot better design mechanics I feel for building compared to PC, I use 3D design software every day and still find the limitation on pieces silly. There is no design reason, pieces are missing that shouldn't be. Scaling has a poor reason for not being implimented but works fine on lots of other games and software. The UI is cluttered because of the option of how they have shown things for the PbP. It is a mess. I would only give this 6/10.
Management (worth 2 points):
Not going to rehash, it just doesn't exist at all for me would give it maybe 2/10 as the very basic UI is there even if it means nothing. However that still gives me a 0/10 in where it's at.
My Conclusion at this time
So sorry but that totals a 3/10. Now some above could be fixed simply and I may be a little harsh on gameplay and management but since it does nothing for me and therefore I don't like playing it then clearly for me it's not working.
-Graphics could easily get the full two points by just adding the final polish.
-Sound just needs to get the bugs sorted and that's fine that woudl get the 2 points as well.
-Building would get it if they add all the missing pieces, allow advance rotation, allow for more textures, sort out some awesome night time reflection, add colouring options for foliage. That would get the 2 points.
So then we would be at 6/10
Now with management, if they sorted out the demographic so it actually worked. If they made the research more interesting and made loans work based on your financial rating like a real loans company that would be 1/10 and then to add the training, the staff, the skills system and the shop stock then that would be 2/10. At moment it is all missing or half cocked. I don't feel we will ever get 3/10 because of how much detail would be needed.
To make gameplay get the score of 3/10 then they need all the above to happen, then they need to make it engaging to do via a story mode and more interesting scenarios. They need to add the options to the sandbox and I don't know what to do about challenge mode. The challenge never happens because it's just a steep starting hill that once you get over the crest you don't have to worry.
Those are where the last 3.5 points between the two are missing for me. That is where you could possibly get to 9.5/10
As said however although they total 10/10 if you had that all for me. There is no perfect game so I could then only give it 9.5/10 with always wanting more for that ever impossible perfection.
Edit:
Sorry but that is how I have broken it down. I am not arguing with anyone and respect all opinions, this just how I see the elements. And yes some is harsh but then that is honesty at times. I am hard to please and have always been. I am sorry if I have offended anyone with my opinion. I just feel that it almost gets there in lots of little ways, however they fall short at each point. Each part has the base but some just are so bad I can't score them.
I will also say I can only score on what is in the game now. To suggest it will be there is not how a review works. You review what you can play at the time of making your opinion and what you have been provided by the Devs to comment on. I get a lot could change and I can happily review it again and it could easily jump to a 6/10 or 7/10 when that happens but I will stick with my thoughts at moment.
