You're very quick to jump to the conclusions that people want murder virtual children on pure principle and "nerdy fanboys" want to ruin someone else's "artistic expression".
You guys are putting way too much thought into this. Just remember that the "scoring" system that you're talking about can be completely subjective and kind of arbitrary sometimes. This isn't grade school.
The 0-10 scale is not universal and can be just about anything. On Giantbomb's scale it means how much the reviewer recommends the game. There is no weirdo objectivity in it. On the Likert scale it's completely different. Hell, on the Anwar scale, 1 means beautiful, 10 means fuck-ugly.
So please, stop saying a saying a "perfect" score on some random scale equals a "perfect" game.
Evil because one dumb reviewer can screw years of developer's work with his 10 minutes piece, dumb because you really need to ignore everything about game development to not appreciate efforts like Dead Island. I can undestand a 6 if you really hate the game, 3/10 is just unprofessional
That has to be the silliest thing I've heard all day. Game journalists should impugn themselves just to avoid hurting someone else? Fuck that.
Not every uses the same scale for scoring games. Here's Eurogamer's scale: [www.eurogamer.net]
Regardless, their website consists of many journalists, which of course means many different tastes and opinions. Unless you can sift through their reviews and recognize some kind of pattern, I think your "ass sniffing" theory might be a little off base.