5. Any Review Score Below 9.5 Is Unacceptable
One of the worst things about the gaming community at large is how much stock they place in review scores, much like how cineastes will take a movie's Rotten Tomatoes score as an objective indication of its quality (which, even as a contributor to the Tomatometer, I must admit is utterly ridiculous). If sites like IGN, which give decimal-based numerical scores to all games, give a new entry into a classic franchise anything less than the utmost praise - say, 9.5 - you can expect full-on mayhem in the comments section. It's an indication that we're not merely happy to enjoy a great game, but we need that greatness confirmed by a powerless "regulatory body" like a review website, and that if a game doesn't score as highly as a rival franchise, then it's an abject failure. Whatever happened to enjoying both competing franchises and hoping they both deliver great games? Needless to say, you can expect that if GTA V does not receive a 10 rating from IGN - given that GTA IV, perhaps quite unjustly, did - the reviewer will get ripped a new one in the comments, regardless of the actual content of their review. So much stock is put into a number rather than the context or tone of the review, and it's pretty embarrassing, really.