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On a Scale from One to Ten, this trope gets a rating of Subversion. Basically, Off the Scale applied to reviews: the movie/video game/whatever has made such an impact on the reviewer that they are willing to break the usual rules of classification of their medium to rate it. The reviewer may consider the work a Dethroning Moment of Suck, Crowning Moment of Awesome, or even Headscratching Moment of "Huh?". There are six categories: Still Within Bounds (but pushing it): This is discussed — which is to say, the reviewer openly admits to being tempted to go outside the established bounds of the rating system, but ultimately they adhere to the rating scale; First To Hit The Limit: A subtype of this category refers to a limit (either upper or lower) that may have been alluded to, but never before reached. Out of Bounds: The score is simply outside the established bounds of the reviewer's usual ratings scale (compare Rank Inflation and F--; note that this may even cause the rating scale to be expanded); Meaningless Comparison: The score is paired with a nonsensical or unusual unit of measure, though often it's thematically relevant to whatever they're reviewing (note that a rater can use an idiosyncratic unit of measure but not qualify for this category if they make clear the scale they're using); Meaningless Value: The score is itself a nonsensical value (and quite often a Take That!); Impossible to Rate: The reviewer admits to having no idea what score to give it (this is essentially a shrug); Refusal to Rate: And the Logical Extreme, the reviewer simply — and usually explicitly — refuses to assign a rating at all. This can be because the reviewer found the work downright repulsive, decided that rating it would be unfair, thought the work was so personal to the artist that a rating was inappropriate, or decided that a rating was otherwise inapplicable. This could be because the work put in so little effort that it would be downright insulting to dignify it with a proper review. Sometimes overlaps with Dancing Bear, when the refusal isn't because the work is so bad, but because rating its quality would be beside the point. May appear as part of a Critic Breakdown. Compare Readings Are Off the Scale, for when this is done with things other than reviews, or F--. Some forms of rating-breaking can involve Grade System Snark. |
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Played straight in Sterling's review of Velvet Assassin, where the game is so horrible they couldn't finish it and gave it an 'N/A' score. | |
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Puella Magi Madoka Magica got a "whaaatever" for the story, but the art design got an honest 5/5. | |
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On the positive end, Meltzer first broke the rating scale for a June 3, 1994 All Japan Pro Wrestling match, which had been shooting 5 out regularly during the decade, between Mitsuharu Misawa and Toshiaki Kawada, which got 6 stars to symbolize he thought it might have been the greatest pro wrestling match of all time. Another match wouldn't get such a rating from Meltzer until the Wrestle Kingdom 11 main event between Kenny Omega and then-reigning IWGP Heavyweight champion Kazuchika Okada on January 4, 2017. Meltzer then later stated that the second match between Omega and Okada a few months later at Dominion 6.11 was better than the first, giving it 6.25 stars. A year later, at Dominion 6.9, the Omega/Okada 2 out of 3 falls title match scored seven stars. The first Omega/Okada match sort of acted as a breakthrough moment, as since then Meltzer has awarded more matches to those he believes deserve it, mostly crediting the newer age of wrestling for having better in-ring action than before. | |
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They gave Do You Like Rock Music?, the second album by English rockers British Sea Power, the rating of U2. | |
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On The Book Was Better, Krimson Rogue gave both The Twilight Saga and Fifty Shades of Grey a Fuck You!/5, because a 1/5 was too much. | |
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JelloApocalypse's "Every [blank] Reviewed in Ten Words or Less" series initially used a positive/negative 1-10 scale (with the positives being based on genuine enjoyment and the negatives being based on So Bad, It's Good factor), but he felt the need to add a 0 after watching Monsters vs. Aliens. Since then, a few other movies have also gotten stuck with one. | |
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Ross's Game Dungeon usually gives out a maximum of three awards at the end of every review, usually detailing the most interesting or noteworthy aspects of the game. Maabus had so many interesting elements, that Ross decided to give it an extra fourth award: Best Story by a Six-Year-Old. | |
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Another example he used once was the "Shane McMahon Unconditional ReFund" (SMURF), supposedly based on an incident in which a friend of his was sitting behind Shane at a show and got paid actual cash money to quit complaining about the show. Basically, how bad each match was would be measured by the approximate refund amount to justify not complaining about it. | |
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In his review of 3, 2, 1, Smurf!, Caddicarus jokes that the game "was also one of the only games in the world that Official UK PlayStation Magazine'' gave a "FUCK OFF AND DIE" out of ten". (They actually gave it a 1/10.) Caddicarus himself sometimes employs the "out of bounds" method, as one of his gimmicks is whether he "slaughters" the game for being bad, or "salvages" it for being good. On occasion, the game has been in-between, thus getting a "slauvage". |
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In Wojcik's Digimon reviews, the coverage for Nanimon ends as follows: | |
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The Tourettes Guy tried out a mattress at Sears, and only gave the comment "Triple H would shit his pants." | |
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Highschool of the Dead got a "who cares, zombies". | |
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Inside Job (2021): In "Sex Machina", the attractiveness-judging algorithm gives Glenn a score of zero... on a 1 to 10 scale. | |
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07-Ghost got a "whatever". | |
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The Online Warrior has, now that Super Smash Bros. Ultimate has run its DLC course, rated every trailer the game had to offer out of 10, as part of a then-ongoing series to rate every Smash trailer. By his own admission, by Ultimate the art of making the trailers had been refined to a sheen, with a lot of trailers getting 10/10's. Both Terry and Sora, however, got an 11/10. Sephiroth? 15/10. | |
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JonTron's "Game Reviews?" hand out scores that do not make sense at all, such as an A out of 5 for Sonic Colors and 6 Golden Bananas+ out of Shigeru Miyamoto for Donkey Kong Country Returns. | |
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At the other end, when the star system came about, they gave Chuck Versus The Ring eleven stars out of five. | |
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In film critic Leonard Maltin’s movie guide, he gives the movie The Naked Gun 33⅓ a rating of 2⅓ stars, the only time he has given anything a score not in an increment divisible by one-half (or BOMB). In his review of The Naked Gun 2½, he gives it 2½ stars and parenthetically explains, "What else?" | |
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The House wiki maintains a 1 to 10 "zebra factor" for how improbable the diagnosis of the week is - for the episode that featured fake human parthenogenesis, they pointed out that it would have received an 11 had it been real. | |
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Kimi Sparkle (a parody of MLP Analysis videos, from one of the creators of Friendship is Witchcraft) normally rates episodes on a scale of one to five stars. When reviewing "Castle Mane-ia", she hates it so much that she wants to give it zero stars, but she can't because that would just be an empty screen. So she awards it one rock instead. | |
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X-Play required any game they reviewed to receive a rating of 1 to 5 stars. Any other rating was not allowed, so games that the hosts felt didn't deserve even 1 star were never given a review. The hosts refused to rate Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing because giving it 1 star would imply that it was actually a game. Other games featured in the 'games you should never buy' segment, such as Barbie Horse Adventure or Flags (a 'flag waving in the wind' simulator), also were not rated. X-Play gave Pokémon Channel a 1 out of 5, but they later said it should've been left unscored since it too wasn’t technically a game. |
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The Simpsons: In "Strong Arms of Ma", Marge develops agoraphobia after being mugged by a hobo. During an attempt by the family to help Marge overcome her agoraphobia, she is told to describe her anxiety level using a number from one to ten. However, while Homer attempts to get rid of a beehive, Marge says "12," then "15". When the swarm of bees attack the family, Marge screams, "703!" | |
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The crew of Wreckless Eating ordinarily rate the dishes they eat on a scale of one to five (insert reviewer's name) faces, but they've encountered so many awful foods that they've had to extend the scale downward. Anything they would only eat again if they were starving to death gets a Big F.U.; anything they still wouldn't touch if they were starving to death receives 5 out of 5 F.U.'s. | |
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MythBusters (see above) once had a myth fail to yield useful results—the Supersize JATO Rocket Car, because the rocket car blew up before it could launch off the ramp. Adam decided to call this myth “Appropriately Supersized�. | |
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TierZoo couldn't rank the players of the very, very weird Abyssal Server because nobody has any real knowledge of it aside from a few screenshots and twitch clips—just enough to make it clear that the server is completely different from any other. (In other words, he couldn't rank the animals of the ocean floor because scientists have very little information about it and the conditions are incomparable to anything on land.) | |
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The Rap Critic refused to give a grade to "Loyal" by Chris Brown because "it would validate him as a rapper". | |
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In ProJared's main review videos, he'll give the game he's playing a comedic score that does not fit a numbered rating. Said scores are meant to serve as a metaphorical way to express how he's feels about the game, such as giving Chrono Trigger "a clock without hands out of ten", representing his belief that the game is "timeless". When it comes to his reviews of recently released game, which tend to be more serious than his main review videos, he'll use a regular numerical rating. Starting from his review of Final Fantasy V (his first video after his 2019 Series Hiatus), however, he would ditch the comedic scores. | |
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In-universe example in Inside Out when Disgust assesses how she, Fear and Anger handled Riley without Joy and Sadness. | |
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During his usual Mother's Basement "Hottest Trash" reviews, Geoff normally rates the series he selects for the videos a rating from 1 to 5 based on how trashy (read: not "bad") he thinks they will be. When it came time to rate the anime of The Lucifer and Biscuit Hammer, he refused to assign it a score, instead giving it "the bullet" because he loves all of Satoshi Mizukami's works and was so appalled by the low quality of Biscuit Hammer's animated adaptation that it didn't feel it qualified as comparable to his usual trash. | |
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In the second episode of iCarly featuring Nevel Papperman, upon seeing Nevel's "nerd cave", Sam says that she used to rank nerds on a scale from 1 to Freddie but that Nevel just broke that scale. | |
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Vampires Suck. Spill's video reviews are usually 4–5 minutes long and have the profanity spoken by the reviewers censored. The review, including intro and outro, is only 44 seconds long, consisting only of a clip from the film, which then cuts to a disgusted Korey staring blankly at the camera for several seconds before issuing his “Fuck You� rating, which this time goes uncensored. | |
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Beavis and Butt-Head: They usually commented on music videos, but in two cases (Milli Vanilli and Vanilla Ice), they just stared in silent horror for a while before changing the channel. A positive variation occurred when they spent an entire Ramones video headbanging. Another video was so dull and clichéd they simply turned the TV off. The home viewers’ screen was also black, with no commentary, for the rest of the video-watching segment. |
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Similarly with beatmania, the difficulty rating for IIDX topped out at 7. They sort of broke it with 7+ until the 12th style, Happy Sky, which they expanded it out to 12. However, they're pretty much back where they started due to Sequel Escalation. | |
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An in-game example of a similar system, but not used for ratings: In NetHack, wands and other magical items that have magical charges normally have some whole number of charges, between zero and a positive whole number, inclusive. If they run out by being used down to zero, they can (usually) be recharged. If you zap a wand of cancellation (whose spell is meant to erase magical effects) at them, their number of charges is set to –1: They can’t be recharged at all, even if you have scrolls of charging. | |
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X-Play gave Pokémon Channel a 1 out of 5, but they later said it should've been left unscored since it too wasn’t technically a game. | |
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Double Toasted's rating system mostly corresponds to a four-star scale: "Full Price", "Matinee", "Rental" and "Some Ol' Bullshit". They break the scale on both ends: On the "Better than good" scale, there's "Better than Sex". On the opposite end, there's "Fuck You" — reserved for the worst of the worst or a movie that pushed one of the hosts' Berserk Buttons. | |
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Cucumber Quest uses video-game-styled profile pictures on the cast page that list the characters’ stats and inventory. Several of them break the rating scale. Cucumber’s dad, Lord Cabbage, has a Jerk rating that goes above the five star metric. He's the only one who even has a "Jerk" rating. Likewise, Splashmaster's Attack rating goes above five as well. Saturday's inventory is just "everybody else's stuff". All of Peridot's stats just say "better than Almond". All of Cordelia's stats are rated as Unknown. The Big Bad, Nightmare Knight, breaks the rating scale on every possible stat, and his entire inventory is unknown. Cosmo takes this further, with his stats and inventory both being listed as Unknown. |
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On Atop the Fourth Wall, Linkara has a video of "Top 15 Comics I'll Never Review." He has various reasons—some viewer suggestions he actually likes, he won't review porn, etc.—but some, like One More Day, fall into the category of rage-inducingly bad. He eventually did it anyway. | |
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Canada's Worst Driver: After a Season 3 challenge, Shelby ranks his performance. | |
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Half-Life 2 was awarded an 11/10 by Maximum PC magazine. At the end of a rare-for-that-publication exclusive 5-page spread. If this took place in a gaming magazine, it would indicate an incredible amount of marketing control over the content of the magazine; as it is, with Maximum PC being a hardware-centric publication that happens to review games on occasion, and the long spreads devoted to a single game being a rarity rather than the norm, it just stands out as extreme fanboyism. | |
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Angry Joe's review of Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare is both this and still within bounds. He wishes he could give the game Kevin Spacey out of 10 before lamenting that that isn't a score on his scale and just giving it a 6/10 | |
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Godmothered has an In-Universe example. Grant's news show is said to get fifth place on a list of news shows, even though there are only four news shows. | |
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B Gata H Kei got a "spro-oi-oi-oingggg!! aoooooogggaaahh!". | |
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Keith D.A. Candido gave the fifth-season finale of Highlander, “Archangel,� a 0 out of a 1–10 scale, citing the episode’s introduction of an ancient Zoroastrian demon into the Highlander universe, Richie’s death scene happening as a result of him being handed the Idiot Ball, and a whole bunch of story elements that just don’t make sense. | |
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Asura Cryin' got an emoticon of an angry smiley head banging itself against a wall... out of 5. The middle of the preview is adorned with a picture of a bunny and an invitation to move along. | |
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Chadtronic has a series dubbed Cursed Commercials where he rates how “cursed� certain television ads are. Some of the ratings that he gives to the commercials reflect the ads themselves. In Cursed Commercials #1, he gives the "Dr. Amigo" commercial a “bootleg out of ten.� In Cursed Commercials #3, Chad rates the "Fushigi" ad a “scam out of ten.� |
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Sure, the rating scale of ScrewAttack’s VGR show is pretty idiosyncratic in itself (“Buy It�, “Rent It� and “F It�), but they still do occasionally play with the scale for certain games. For example, Modern Warfare 2 was given a “rent it, just never return it� in protest of Activision’s infamous price hike they demanded for that game. | |
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Cross Ange got a "worthless" rating. | |
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Resident Evil 5—Super Jeenius gives it "Resident Evil out of 10", Jon gives it "Football out of 10". | |
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Jimquisition usually uses .5 decimals, but the review of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD broke this pattern by by giving it, naturally, an 8.8. | |
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Zac Bertschy of Anime News Network gave the first episode of Upotte!!!! a rating of “WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT�. | |
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In Freefall, Raibert subverts this. When asked if something is a ten on a "How bad is it?" scale, he says 8.5 — nothing is a ten, because things can always get worse. | |
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Post-revival, when reviewing Slender, TOM couldn’t decide what score to give it due to his utter terror (though he did like it). | |
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In-game example: the "Turn it up to 11" achievement in Game Dev Tycoon requires that a reviewer give a score of 11/10 to one of your games. It's not easy, as you need the game to be utterly perfect to even stand a chance. | |
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Rank10YGO: Ojamas were graded on every scale to be an Ojama King/3. He acknowledged that if the deck were to be graded conventionally as a single archetype, it would probably be named average at best at every grade - but as the deck is more of an unusual engine of highly variable synergy and quality rather than a conventional archetype, this wouldn't really work. Similarly, Kaijus got a Minilla/5 on every scale, for about the same reason - dedicated "pure" kaiju builds are almost impossible and the deck is far more useful as a removal engine in something else, making traditional grades much less applicable. Frogs got a descriptive rating of Good Water Engine/5 because, again, the deck is almost never played "pure" and works mainly as an engine in other Water-based decks. When looking at the Signer Dragons, he was unsure how to rate the banned Ancient Fairy Dragon on the video's scale of one to five D's, ultimately settling on "Banned D's out of 5?" He simply gave joke ratings to Triamids (Carolinian Dirt Mountain/5), Chemicritters (Carbon Monoxide Poisoning/5), and Digital Bugs (Digital Shrug/5), as due to their small scale and lack of support, as well as external elements, it's very difficult to make a "pure" build of any of them in the standard game. |
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CHUD.com's infamous "Fuck You Out of 10" review of the Halloween (2007) remake. | |
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In Skin Horse, Gerda has broken the Kinsey Scale — she's "a Kinsey Seven, a type of lesbian so profound it was previously thought not to exist in nature". Which, of course, in no way means she doesn't want to see Tip and Konstantin mud-wrestling, same as every other female character in the strip. | |
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Friendly Neighborhood Librarian operates on a one- to five-star scale, and says that she doesn’t officially give out 0 stars on the show, but for Wayside, she wishes she could. Instead, she ended up giving it one star. She also gave Dario Argento’s Phantom of the Opera movie “one star, barely.� | |
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Nintendo Power editor Chris Slate responded to one reader that he had been tempted to award some games a 10.5 out of 10, but won’t because that will mess up the scale by making 10.5 the new standard. (At the time, only Resident Evil 4, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, and Metroid Prime 3: Corruption had received a 10.) | |
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Student Council's Discretion got a "it doesn't matter". The review consisted entirely of a picture of a bucket of fish as a metaphor for the show, and another of seals as a metaphor for the intended audience. | |
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In-universe in the Muppet Show — Waldorf and Statler love Diana Ross so much that they freely deal negative ratings on an (implicit) 0-10 rating scale to the other acts. This also has the side effect of riling up the audience - during the episode's "UK Sketch", in which Beaker tries to sing Albert Morris' "Feelings", they boo him so much that Animal has to tell them to be quiet halfway through, and they do some Produce Pelting before Gonzo can perform his stunt, causing him to call it off and get Diana back on the stage. | |
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Ride to Hell: Retribution won the Zero Punctuation "Lifetime Achievement Award for Total Abhorrence" in his Top 5 of 2013 episode instead of winning a slot on the Bottom 5 (led by Call of Duty: Ghosts), it being so horrible it wasn't even worthy of being the top worst game of that year. Consequently, when he later ranked his best and worst games of each year of the 2010s, Ride to Hell was listed outside of the Worst list (whose #1 was Hunt Down the Freeman) with a question mark, and pictured with a bottle of Jack Daniels in hand. | |
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TOM from Toonami liked Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag that he reviewed it before finishing it, and noted he doesn't want it to end. So he gave it a score of "ARRRRRRRR!" | |
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Something Awful's "WTF, D&D!?" column reviews bad or otherwise bizarre Tabletop Games. However, their page for F.A.T.A.L. wasn't so much a review as it was a top-ten list of reasons why they refused to review it. | |
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In a filler video between two Let's Plays, Chip Cheezum did a parody review of Grand Theft Auto V (the video itself only consisting of one of the protagonists getting a bike stuck in his aunt's sofa for a few minutes). At the end the screen displayed "FINAL SCORE:" with a image of the poster for Citizen Kane as the score. | |
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Phelous, a reviewer of bad horror movies, described A Serbian Film as the worst thing he’s ever watched. And he’s watched movies like Birdemic and Five Across the Eyes. Notable is the fact that he usually watches a movie for a review twice (once just to watch it, and again to take notes) and he was so disgusted with it he refused to watch it again after the first viewing. |
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Penny Arcade has a comic where Gabe and Tycho briefly review Madden 13, ending with a game review score of 9x and 3/(two footballs). | |
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Senran Kagura got "boobapalooza 2013" in lieu of a rating. | |
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Lou Lumenick, the movie critic for the New York Post, gave the sketch comedy film Movie 43 negative four stars, calling it “the worst movie I’ve ever seen�. | |
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Overlord (2012) got a "YOU'RE IN THE GAME!!" rating, pointing out how tired the "trapped in video game world" plot is. | |
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In Total Lady Drama Island, after an experimental food substitute causes every female contestant to undergo various degrees of clothes-destroying Breast Expansion, the show's ratings drop to zero. Not because everybody simultaneously chose to stop watching, but because the incident caused viewership to spike so high that the Nielsen servers literally exploded. | |
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Paul O’Brien of The X-Axis picked up Quantum and Woody #32, on the assumption that a relaunch of a title, which had as its gimmick that stuff had happened in all the unpublished issues since the cancellation, would be a great out-of-context jumping-on point. He was wrong, and rated it n/a, on the basis that he simply couldn’t judge what someone who knew what the hell was going on might get out of it. | |
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Oni Ai got a "another one of these, oh boy" due to its Brother–Sister Incest premise. | |
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The infamous "MINUS. FIVE. STARS." given to the Sharmell/Jenna Morasca match at TNA's Victory Road 2009 by The Wrestling Observer Newsletter's Bryan Alvarez that eventually wound up in Botchamania's opening sequence. | |
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In Red Dwarf, Dave Lister frequently talks about writing Michelin Guides or similar about various settings, resulting in Legion getting a psycho rating of "four and a half chainsaws, maybe five". Rimmer suggests that the G-Tower from The Tank in series 8 probably gets “the full five slop-out buckets� in the guide to Penal Hell-Holes. | |
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Polish magazine CD-Action gave Limbo of the Lost a negative score for plagiarism alone. | |
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Jacob Hope Chapman aka JesuOtaku has become prone to these since he started working with ANN in preview guides, often for the same reasons as Bertschy. I Don’t Like You at All, Big Brother!! got a "GTFO" rating. Hamatora received an "oh my god I don't care" out of 5. Cross Ange got a "worthless" rating. Dies Irae got a screenshot of Indiana Jones saying "Nazis. I hate these guys." |
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In Scott The Woz's video covering E3 1995, the same video that introduced his five knee-slap scale (a standard for his videos covering the various E3 conferences, keeping this from being a Meaningless Comparison), Sony's "$299" momentExplanation:Sega had just announced the Sega Saturn was available in retailers across America right then, rather than in four months as originally announced, for $399; Sony simply announced afterwards that the PlayStation would launch for a hundred dollars less caused Scott to slap his knee at such a rapid and continuous rate that he was visibly scarred and bloody, going up to fourteen knee-slaps before the video cut away from Scott slapping his knee. | |
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Day Break Illusion got a "heavy, ragged sigh". | |
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"Horribifuckus", courtesy of The Nostalgia Critic. He also declared Batman & Robin ("BAT-CREDIT CARD????!!!!!") to be "Supercrapafuckerifficexpialibullshit." In song. Out-of-character, Doug Walker said that "despise" is too little to describe his feelings for The Garbage Pail Kids Movie, and that the word for his hatred "probably doesn't even exist". |
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13 Reasons Why: New Zealand censors, when classifying the show, had to build a new classification of RP18 (Persons under 18 must be accompanied by a parent or guardian) from scratch, created specifically for the series. The censors deemed the subject matter too important to teens for the show to be given the existing R18 rating, yet the RP16 rating was considered to be too low of a rating and did not cover vulnerable 16 and 17 year olds in a country with the highest teen suicide rate in the OECD. | |
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Schaffrillas Productions' ranking of the Mario Kart 8 Deluxe courses has him, upon request, rank the Battle Mode courses from the original iteration of Mario Kart 8. As these were existing courses and none of them were built for Battle Mode, he ranks them in reverse order and expresses heightened frustration with them, to the point where nearly all of them are F-tier. In particular, he called Toad's Turnpike so deeply painful of an experience that he doesn't think F-tier accurately conveys his feelings toward it, and assigns it to G-tier. | |
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Musings of an X-Phile is a retro review page devoted to analysing The X-Files. Salome’s aim is to analyse all the episodes and both the movies. The episodes get grades like at school, and only the very best episodes have merited A-plus. The X-Files: Fight the Future review has two parts: one based on the storytelling and the plot, while the other is based on Mulder and Scully’s relationship. The latter got A-plus-plus-plus. | |
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The writer of the tier system for Dungeons & Dragons 3.5e refused to give the truenamer class a rating—due to poorly-written formulas, after the first few levels it can’t use its powers at all without extremely heavy Min-Maxing, and even then it’s a Squishy Wizard with worse spells than some Magic Knight classes. He would later note that a truenamer that has pushed themselves enough to use their powers regularly is in Tier 4 (about as good as a warlock or rogue), while a truenamer that hasn't is Tier 6 (the same as Joke Characters like the commoner and infamous trainwrecks like the samurai and divine mind). | |
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Wrestling With Wregret initially stuck to a 1/2-to-4 star rating system (later expanded to 1/2-to-five). The Wedding Gown match at Bash at the Beach 2000 was so pathetic that Bryan Zane introduced zero stars. Later still, Halloween Havoc 1991 and the Van Hammer vs. Doug Sommers match proved so unimaginably badnote It lasted just over a minute and still contained numerous botches, including one that could easily have killed or paralyzed Sommers that Zane gave up and rated it -3 stars. Reviews since have used negative stars when Zane feels it necessary. | |
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Also played straight: The Guy Game, Mortal Kombat Advance and Ping Pals all received 0.0s from one of the 3 reviewers (with Ping Pals getting two zeroes). | |
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Transistor: The Jump Ratings, after Perfect, breaks the algorithm: "Rating Algorithm: ?". | |
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In one of the Teen Girl Squad shorts on Homestar Runner, Cheerleader's attempt at diving into the mouth of a live lion is rated at “3 noses?� | |
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In Some Call Me Johnny, Johnny chose not to give Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing a score. | |
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CLANNAD After Story got a "whatever it is you think the rating should be (of 5, but you can change that scale if you need to because it might be unfair)", supposedly to mock fan demand for "objective" reviews. | |
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Yahoo Games gave Batman: Arkham City a 6 out of 5. | |
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In-universe in Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping: Connor4Real's sophomore album, CONNquest, gets a -4.0 score on Pitchfork and a 💩/4 on Rolling Stone. The only "positive" review comes from The Onion. | |
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Dies Irae got a screenshot of Indiana Jones saying "Nazis. I hate these guys." | |
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When NGamer reviewed the infamous witch-touching game Doki Doki Majo Shinpan!, the rating for each category simply said "NO". It was even awarded the “Superman 64 Award For Worst Game (of 2007)�. In a similar vein, they gave a game based around hunting wild animals a :( score, saying that 'We haven't felt this depressed in a long time'. | |
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In the What If? entry "Twitter timeline height", Randall Monroe has an analogy involving twenty-seven The Land Before Time sequels, and illustrates this with a list of their star ratings. Most of them don't seem to be very good, but a number have odd ways of displaying it like "half a star, but not the first one", "the bottom halves of all the stars" and so on. Conversely, The Land Before Time XXVI somehow goes Out Of Bounds and scores five stars out of four. | |
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The State received a number of alarmingly bad reviews in its first season, including a rating of minus 2 stars from The New York Times. MTV and the crew responded by working the bad reviews into an actual ad for the show. | |
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Similarly, the UK Nintendo Official Magazine gave a blank space where the percentage score traditionally was for Phantasy Star Online Episode III: C.A.R.D. Revolution. The review essentially degenerated into a series of screenshots of humorous quotes sent to random online opponents. | |
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The Pop Arena grades every Goosebumps book , "[an inanimate object] out of 10."note However, Go Eat Worms! "fixed" the scale; Greg hated it so much, he graded it, "0/10. This would later happen with How I Learned to Fly where he gives it an actual score, because the book wasn't a traditonal entry, so it doesn't need the usual scoring system. | |
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There was a review of one of The Toxic Avenger movies that rated it "Stars? Who needs stars?" | |
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Christian film website Movieguide gave South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut a content grade of -4 (could be -4 billion). | |
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SsethTzeentach very rarely gives a straightforward score for any of his reviews. Anything that isn't a blatant 10/10, he'll give it "a (very/extremely) good/high score", an explicitly arbitrary rating, or grades them using some items or abstract concept out of another abstract game item/concept (Ex. He gave SYNTHETIK a 325 Terror Level (about to go to 350) out of "[his] rapidly depleting health bar") or something nonsensical (Ex. He gave Caves of Qud whatever a logarithmic spiral on a TI-83 calculator is supposed to mean). | |
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When rating God of War, the official PS2 magazine (Greek edition) commented that they would give it an 11/10, but weren’t allowed to, so instead they settled on a 10/10. | |
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Linebarrels of Iron got a "welp time to hang myself" out of 5. | |
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For his non-Star Trek reviews, Chuck does not use a numerical scale, but rather "Must See", "Strongly Recommended", "Recommended", "Fine", "Watchable" and "Avoid". Doctor Who's "The Twin Dilemma" and Stargate SG-1's "Emancipation" were rated simply "The Worst". | |
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Lampshaded in the The Office (US) episode "Beach Games": Pam is keeping track of the points that Michael gives various competitors in the office games, but Michael keeps changing the method in which he rates them (i.e., a gold star to the winner of event 1, 10 points for event 2, a checkmark in event 3, etc.). The end result is that Pam can’t convert the scores over between events and has no idea who's actually winning. | |
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Brutalmoose: In his "Brutalfoods" review of Lunchables pizza, he assigns "Ian Points" to the various boxes. For the first meal (all-cheese pizzas) he grants it 10 points for the pizzas themselves, 8 for the Capri-Sun drink, and 15 for the Air Head dessert... then takes away 100 for the incredibly terrible comic that came with it, giving it a final score of -67. For the second (pepperoni and cheese) he grants 2 for the pizza, 9 for the Capri-Sun and 10 for the Crunch bar, then takes away 500 for another comic that is not only terrible, but is in fact the exact same one as the first, leaving it at -479. The third (deep-dish) gets 5 for the pizza, 3 for the Cheez-Its, 7 for the fruit roll-up, 1 for the Kool-Aid mix, 20 for the water bottle the Kool-Aid goes into... and then takes away 20,000 because he decided to put at least a bit of all the other ingredients into the Kool-Aid and drink it all at once, to which he jokes "they didn't tell me that I had to do this, but it's still their fault somehow" and leaving it with -19,964 points. By the time of the fourth (a "healthier" organic version) he's crossing over into the Meaningless Value area, giving it no Ian Points whatsoever and, when summing up the scores at the end, labeling it as simply "BAD". For his review of several Twinkies recipes, he instead decides to simply rank them in a top-4 list - which ends up ranking the Twinkie wiener sandwich as #85 out of 4 because it was so bad, and then skips #2 entirely because, while he liked the Twinkie grasshopper milkshake (enough that, purely by how much he liked it, he said it would have otherwise been tied with the deep-fried Twinkie), he felt the Twinkie was too incidental to that recipe; anything similarly sugary and creamy could be substituted without noticeably changing the final result. |
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Cupcakes (Sergeant Sprinkles): Popular fanblog Equestria Daily gave the fic a "GRIMDARK AS FUCK" tag, as opposed to usual dark fics which usually only get a "Dark" or a "Grimdark" tag. Similary, the epic-length Fallout: Equestria got the tag Legendary. | |
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Polygon's "review" for Star Fox Zero has their reviewer being so aggravated with the game that he not only refused to complete it (thus not giving it a score), but also insisted that he hadn't actually made a review of the game. | |
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Spill.com (an online movie review site) gives a rating of "Fuck You" for movies they absolutely hated. They've got "Full Price!!", "Matinee!", "Rental", and "Some Bullshit!" as the other ratings instead of a numbered scale, but "Fuck You" is not in their regular rating scale. However, sometimes they find films so bad and offensive that they can't even give it "Some old bullshit", instead resorting to this. Often accompanied with a picture of Korey flipping the bird. Disaster Movie was the first movie they reviewed to earn this dubious honor. Vampires Suck. Spill's video reviews are usually 4–5 minutes long and have the profanity spoken by the reviewers censored. The review, including intro and outro, is only 44 seconds long, consisting only of a clip from the film, which then cuts to a disgusted Korey staring blankly at the camera for several seconds before issuing his “Fuck You� rating, which this time goes uncensored. |
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Zac Bertschy refused to rate the anime adaptation of Bunny Drop (the space where the rating would go reads "BUT WHAT ABOUT THE ENDING", somewhat crossing over with a Meaningless Value rating), as Zac couldn't get over the creepiness of the source material's ending where the adoptive father/daughter duo marry each other, but still held out hope that the anime would end differently, as he thought the story was enjoyable up until that point. | |
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The Onion AV Club's reviews of Hostages mainly dealt out Ds and Fs, but episode eleven was so horrendous that the rating scale looped itself and Sonia Soraiya gave it an "A". | |
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Infinite Stratos got a rating of “quiet I am trying to nap here�, a preview that cut off into ZZZZZZZZ halfway through, and a video of a cute kitten as a better alternative for something to watch. | |
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Zac Bertschy of Anime News Network awarded Silver Spoon with “3 moos out of five� and Free! with "4-pack, halfway to a 6, gotta do more crunches this summer" (probably meaning 4/5). | |
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Hope Chapman rated Prison School "???". | |
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Mayo Chiki! got a "blergh". | |
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Much like the Drowned In Sound example above, Mark Grondin from Spectrum Pulse refused to give Mount Eerie's "A Crow Looked At Me" a rating because it was a too raw and personal record for him to give it a score. | |
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In Square One TV's Music Video "Less Than Zero" Stanley O'Toole manages to get negative scores in diving, dance, and rollerskating competitions. When he competes in the hammerthrow he throws it backwards, netting a -55 feet score. | |
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As mentioned above in Out of Bounds, Fasion Photo Ruview is a web series in which RuPaul's Drag Race alumni Raja and Raven give their opinions on various fashion outfits, usually looks from Drag Race but also sometimes actual runways or drag queen's social media posts. The only time they have outright refused to rate a look was Joy Villa's "Make America Great Again" dress from the 2017 Grammys, deciding that even giving it hate with a rating would only give the look more publicity and infamy that she was looking for by wearing it. It did cause Raja to retroactively give a Toot (a good rating) to a look she had previously Booted, deciding "anything is better than this dress". | |
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Was also played straight in Sterling’s review of Knight's Contract, where they stated that while they couldn't give it a score because they did not finish it, they assured readers that "it would not get a ten out of ten". | |
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They gave Meow The Jewels, the joke remix album of Run The Jewels 2 where all the beats were remade with cat sounds, a cat emoji with heart-shaped Wingding Eyes, likely meant as a positive rating. | |
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In Cyberpunk, Adam Smasher's in-game Empathy Stat is listed as "Yeah, right...". | |
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Paul Tassi of Forbes expressed a mixture of horror and admiration when reviewing Flappy Bird, questioning how a game so inherently pointless and lacking in content could become a major phenomenon. In light of its inexplicable fame and appeal, he rated it "Cthulhu/10". | |
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In one episode of The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius, Jimmy and his friends somehow manage to win 8th place in a contest with only 7 entrants. | |
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Furcadia has a seasonal contest for minigames (called Dreams), and one well-known creator—known as Graphite—experienced a variation of this (as his creations were contest entries, there were no ratings beyond First Place, Second Place, Third Place, etc.).Graphite was sure his creation ColdFusion (essentially a game of Atomica built on the Furcadia platform) would win because his creation was so innovative and different. He took patching (adding special graphics) and skinning (altering the appearance of the game interface itself), and DragonSpeak (scripting) to such an extreme that his game didn't resemble Furcadia at all.Unfortunately, this meant the judges had no idea how to rank it, and so placed it in a category all its own. To quote Graphite, "This dream was in fact so innovative that the judges decided to create a special category for my dream alone in which I ended up getting first place, last place, and every place in-between."The judges did agree that the dream was So Cool, It's Awesome, gave it a glowing review, and awarded Graphite handsomely for essentially taking DragonSpeak and Patching and creating something that didn’t resemble Furcadia at all in either appearance or gameplay. To quote Felorin (Co-Founder of Furcadia), “This dream is going to receive a special Puzzling, Mind-boggling, Patching and DragonSpeak Mastering Trickster award of Triwings for Life and a dozen Purple Roses. (Whew that’s a mouthful!)�Sadly, every update made to Furcadia since then makes the dream less and less compatible, leaving it virtually unplayable now. | |
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Lagrange: The Flower of Rin-ne got a "zzzzzzz". | |
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In Demo Reel, Jimmy Boyd's movie Jingle Sells received 0.2 stars on IMDb. The lowest rating a movie can receive is 1. | |
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The Dread Central review of Birdemic: 5 out of 5 Exploding Eagles (same as the The 13th Alley review). | |
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In the Malcolm in the Middle episode "Emancipation", a new teacher creates a ranking system for Malcolm's class, forcing the students to compete against each other for the #1 slot. Malcolm at first rebels and ends up in the #12 position, but then he decides to be so good that he breaks the system. His name climbs up the ranks until he's doing so well the teacher is forced to place his name on the wall several spaces above the #1 spot (which would appear to make this an example of "Out of Bounds", but he is still technically #1). | |
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Regular Show has an example when Rigby is trying to make a videogame for Mordecai, and he has to pass physical and intellectual tests, that are graphed. His results in the intellectual test are so low that his result doesn't even appear on the graph; conversely, the physical test results were so high that the graph's upper limit wasn't high enough to correctly gauge his result. | |
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The X-Axis again: Paul didn’t give a rating to the 2004 relaunch of X-Force, holding that judging its quality by any normal standard was beside the point—it was exactly what you’d expect a relaunch of X-Force by Rob Liefeld to be like and therefore, presumably, the people who bought it did so because that’s what they wanted (whether to make fun of it or because they were genuinely fans of the Rob Liefeld style). | |
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The only film currently without a star rating in The Editing Room is Gooby; and that particular script needs to be read to be believed. This might be more a case of Impossible to Rate, however. | |
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Smogon placed the Pokémon Darmanitan Zen Mode in an "untiered" position for quite some time, due to the difficulty in how to place it: it's essentially a transformation of Darmanitan that can only activate mid-battle, and it's generally agreed to make its user worse rather than better. Later on, when more Pokémon with transformation abilities were introduced, it was decided that it should just get the same tier as regular Darmanitan and be treated as an ability instead. | |
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The star ranking system, thought up by industry insider Jim Cornette and Newsletter writer Weasel Dooley, popularized by The Wrestling Observer Newsletter, is mostly defined by three marks. 0 is DUD, 2 is average, 5 cannot be improved upon. The system originally was a joke by Cornette, who compared Weasel Dooley's in depth analysis of matches to decide whether they were "good" or "bad" to TV Guide's deconstruction of movies, which it grades on four stars, because there can be no perfect movies. Jim and Weasel, while believing there can be no perfect matches either, agreed Jerry Lawler and Terry Funk put on one so good in 1981 that four simply wasn't enough, redefining the scale. | |
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On Cinema: Tim has at times given films six bags of popcorn (the show's version of star ratings) despite claiming the highest rating is 5 bags of popcorn (although, there is sometimes inconsistency with what the highest rating is). | |
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The Zettai ni Oishii segments of Gaki no Tsukai ya Arahende, which feature the cast’s attempts at making a specified dish with unusual ingredients, already has built-in negative values on its ratings scale of –2 to 10. Positive scores are represented by stars, negative scores by skull marks. But on at least one occasion, a dish has been awful enough to get two full skeletons. | |
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Fate/Grand Order rates most Servants on a scale of one star to five stars, with (in general) the one-star Servants being the weakest and most common and the five-stars being the strongest and rarest. Angra Mainyu, though, is considered in-story and out to be so horribly weak that he is rated a zero-star Servant.note He's treated in-game as a two-star in terms of his cost and max level, and he has stats roughly on par with one, but his skillset and Noble Phantasm are so awful that they drag him down on the tier list. Ironically, he's also regarded as even rarer than a five-star. | |
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The Angry Video Game Nerd claimed CrazyBus, a "game" (actually a tech demo) with no enemies, no obstacles, only one screen, awful graphics for a Sega Genesis game, an atrocious soundtrack, and no goal or purpose whatsoever other than driving the bus forward and backward by holding the D-Pad left or right for eternity broke the 'shit scale' and somehow managed to outclass in awfulness the two other games he had reviewed that he originally claimed were the worst games ever made, "Desert Bus" and Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing. | |
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A variant in The Grimoire of Marisa, wherein Marisa rates and offers her opinions on some of the many spellcards in the series. Marisa’s rating scale itself is fairly normal, giving the spellcard a certain number of stars based on her perceived difficulty of "Referencing" the spell. However, she sometimes breaks the “difficulty level" boundary and rates some by "Show-Off Level," "Temperature," "Believability," "Volume," and "Whimsicalness." | |
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DanceDanceRevolution's foot rating scales initially (in 1998) went from a low of 1 to a maximum of 8, quickly amended with a 9-footer in 2nd Mix six months later, and then a 10-footer in MAX2 in 2002. Here, the rating scale stood still for quite some time, with a few new songs in every release getting harder and harder despite still being rated as 10-foot songs (compare MAX 300, the first 10, to later 10s like the Fascination and Pluto series). Eventually in 2008, Konami relented and introduced a new ratings scale in Dance Dance Revolution X, with all previous ratings inflated by about 50% and a new top-end of 20-foot for future expansion. Similarly with beatmania, the difficulty rating for IIDX topped out at 7. They sort of broke it with 7+ until the 12th style, Happy Sky, which they expanded it out to 12. However, they're pretty much back where they started due to Sequel Escalation. |
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When Kevvl, mentioned above, perfect-ran Duff McWhalen's stage in Mega Man X5, he refused to give Duff McWhalen a difficulty rating because, after an entire stage consisting of a very long, multi-phase fight with a miniboss, Duff McWhalen himself is incredibly easy. Instead, the U-555 (the stage's miniboss) gets the rating, and it's a 10/10. | |
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Magic: The Gathering Head designer Mark Rosewater has a "Storm Scale" of how unlikely he thinks it is for a particular mechanic to return to Standard, so named because the infamous Game Breaking mechanic "Storm" is the definition of a 10. The only mechanic he's ever given an 11 is That One Useless Useful Scrappy Mechanic, "Bands with other". Various tournament formats have their respective banlists, but Vintage is the only format where all cards, no matter how absurdly broken (such as the legendary Power Nine), are legal, although the strongest cards are nevertheless restricted to one copy per deck, with only truly problematic cards being flat out banned for reasons outside gameplay and power level (such as ante cards which run afoul with real-life gambling laws). However, Lurrus of the Dream-Den proved itself so overpowered even in Vintage that it became the very first (and so far only) card banned in a format where the most powerful game breakers are legal. This ban was only lifted when Companion mechanic, an overall-overpowered mechanic that Lurrus and a handful other broken cards have, was nerfed. |
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Computer Gaming World, which normally bottomed out at 1 star, had an ‘unholy trinity’ of games that received zero: Postal 2, Mistmare, and Dungeon Lords. | |
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On the other hand, Ebert occasionally gave zero-star ratings. These differed from his occasional "no-star" ratings in that to earn zero stars, a movie had to offend his moral sensibilities in some way. This is why The Human Centipede II got zero stars (as opposed to the first movie, which got no rating) and why the original version of Death Race got zero stars vs. the remake’s half star even though Ebert had admitted that he considered the former more competently made. Ebert talks more about his no-star rating in his review of Death Wish 2. | |
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Girls' Frontline rates Tactical Dolls from two stars to five, with with lower ratings generally equating to being more common, easier to acquire, and requiring fewer cores for dummy-linking, but with less power and potential for growth as they're leveled up. Later added were neural upgrades to boost a T-Doll's abilities further, the last of which bumps up their star rating by one (or two, in the case of a 2-star), which in the case of a Doll that's already 5-stars boosts them up to a new 6-star rating. | |
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The first episode of Queen's Blade got an animated GIF of a smiley face shooting itself in the head out of 5. | |
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When the original Wing Commander was released in 1990, it broke several scales in the positive direction. Dragon, for example, rated it as six out of five stars. | |
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In chapter 42 of Crimson and Noire, Plagg makes a ranking list of people that are part of his weilder Marinette's life, and invoke this trope by saying that anyone with a negative rank should be avoided at all cost. Lila is the lowest rank at -10,000,000 because he recognizes her as a Manipulative Bitch towards Marinette despite his warnings falling on deaf ears. | |
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He also declared Batman & Robin ("BAT-CREDIT CARD????!!!!!") to be "Supercrapafuckerifficexpialibullshit." In song. | |
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WrestleCrap’s description of the Black Scorpion’s final appearance, where he landed in a spaceship, says, “On a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being the ultimate in stupidity, this rates 178.� | |
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Giant Bomb refused to publish a review score for Fallout 76 because none of their staff could stand to play the game enough to finish it properly in order to review it. | |
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Victoria Jackson’s tenure on Saturday Night Live in the late 1980s shaded into this trope. Her rating scale was “4: Pretty good. 3: Best movie ever. 2: Worst movie ever. 1: Pretty good.� | |
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Jonathan Wojcik's Pokémon reviews are generally given some sort of rating (see elsewhere on this page for when he gave some Pokemon a 'six out of five' or a 'moldy, festering Lucario skull out of five') but when he reached Goodra, he found that his feelings were too split (by his love of what the Pokémon represents but also his desire for what Goomy and Sliggoo seemed to be leading up tonote On multiple occasions leading up to this, Wojcik expressed a desire to see a fully troglobytic final evolution, and Sliggoo's eyes are stated to be slowly degrading, leading it to rely on other senses) to give it a good or a bad rating, but also too strong to give it a neutral one. In Wojcik's Digimon reviews, the coverage for Nanimon ends as follows: The Wind Spirit line got ratings of "Ew", "Nah", and "??!!?!??!???!????????", as they were generally decent (or at least interesting) designs, but they were incredibly skeevy as the Henshin Hero forms of a character meant to be eleven. |
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A more straightforward example: The film Roar (Tippi Hedren, her family, and several dozen untrained lions) got a "?!?!?!". | |
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Cuticle Detective Inaba got a "zilch". | |
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Kaitou Tenshi Twin Angel got a "guh". He ended the review with a picture of a rabbit pouting to express his feelings on the show. | |
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Animal House features this, when Dean Wormer dresses down the group for their terrible grades. Though most of them get C's at most, and D's and F's more frequently, D-Day's grade isn't applicable - he hasn't done enough work to be counted as having completed a single course. | |
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Hex and Bajo (of Good Game) gave Robot Unicorn Attack an utterly "ridonkulous" score of 8971 rubber chickens (a standard unit on the show) out of 20. | |
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Spiderfan.org, which rates Spider-Man comic books on a scale of 1 to 5 webs, gave 1998's The Final Chapter no webs, citing Aunt May being brought Back from the Dead with a truly absurd explanation, and general bad writing. The review concluded by saying the story was a waste of precious paper. | |
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Listen to me, girls. I am your father! was rated thusly: | |
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Mysterious Girlfriend X got some sort of music file for a rating. Considering the rest of the review, it's safe to say it's of this category. | |
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When rating the use of English in a music video the Eat Your Kimchi scale is 1–5 with 5 the highest rating. Simon gave rapper G. Dragon a 37 out of 5 for the English in Get Your Crayon. | |
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In an episode of The Emperor's New School, Yzma creates a clone of Kuzco to fail all of his classes. At one point he gets a G- on a test. | |
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Fairy Tail got a "screw this". | |
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A recurring challenge on Impractical Jokers has one Joker showing someone a dating profile created by the other three. The person is then asked to rate the profile on a scale of 1-10, and the profile with the lowest score loses. In "Prince + Charming", Murr's profile was given a rating of negative 10. The other Jokers decided to give him the loss on the spot since the score was so bad. | |
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In Anthony Fantano's review of Yung Lean's Unknown Death 2002 mixtape... Anthony doesn't review the mixtape at all, instead chanting "my hands are bread" repeatedly. A more sincere version happened in his review of Taylor Swift's Fearless (Taylor's Version). The review was done with the full knowledge that the re-recorded album was done less for artistic purposes and more as a personal act of defiance against her former label.ExplanationIn short, following her departure, the label adamantly denied her the rights to her own music released through them, prompting her decision to re-record said music and ensure personal ownership of the newer versions Because of this, in lieu of giving it a number rating as if it were solely about the music, Anthony rated it with "Screw your old record label. Do what you wanna do. Cool?" |
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Guitar Hero got at least one 11/10 review (as yet another This is Spın̈al Tap reference). | |
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Maximum Ride has a house in-universe that rates "on a scale from 1 to 10—an easy 15". | |
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He chose to remove the film Shoah from his list of candidates for the top ten films of 1985 (in its place appeared The Color Purple (1985)). He felt it deserved higher accolades. | |
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PC Gamer UK once gave a terrible University management game XX% and the review was written as a multiple choice exam so the reader could choose the final score. The highest possible was no more than 10% and the lowest was a flat 0. | |
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Letterboxd uses stars for its rating scales, but for Portrait of a Lady on Fire they replaced the stars with flames. | |
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High School D×D got a "boobs". | |
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Kill Screen's review of Duke Nukem Forever probably stands as the most extreme example of this; not only did the reviewer refuse to give a score, the entire site decided not to give out scores ever again. | |
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He also did this for Doctor Who's "Vincent and the Doctor", for the same reason — he could not compare it to other episodes for rating, when it is so different to them. | |
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The second season of Strike Witches got a "shrug?". | |
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Game Pro Magazine, in the January 1997 issue, gave Battle Arena Toshinden URA for the Sega Saturn a 0.5 fun factor. Up until that point, the lowest score a game could get in ANY category (Graphics, Sound, Control, Fun Factor) was a 1.0. This (along with a rather negative fan reaction to the reviewer faces they were using at this time) was probably what prompted Gamepro to change their reviewing faces in the next issue. | |
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The Polish magazine CD-Action's review of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 gave it a 10/10, though one of the only two cons they listed in a summary was "It nearly escaped our rating scale!" | |
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Electronic Gaming Monthly: Averted by EGM — at the beginning and end of the column’s lifespan, "Seanbaby's Rest of the Crap" was for games that would warrant zeroes and negative scores on the normal rating scale used by the other reviewers. Pretty much the only reason he was doing this was for the humor value, since, as the very premise states, even the best of the games he reviewed were all the worst in shovelware. Also played straight: The Guy Game, Mortal Kombat Advance and Ping Pals all received 0.0s from one of the 3 reviewers (with Ping Pals getting two zeroes). |
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Super Mario Galaxy was given 11/10 by the Italian Official Nintendo Magazine. As the magazine had always been known for being far too generous regarding scores to Nintendo games, some readers were outraged. | |
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The "ratings" the monsters from Monster Factory have received include a golf score, a batting average, a wanted level, a movie title, and a computer error. | |
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Anthony also gave both G-Eazy's When It's Dark Out and Post Malone's August 26th Mixtape a rating of whitegirlturnupmusic/10 on separate occasions. | |
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When Bro Team Pill reviews a game, its rating always nonsensical. F.E.A.R. 2 got a "I would rate this game". Garshasp got a "Cool out of yes". Battlefield 3's review concluded with him reviewing the review video, claiming it's better than his FEAR review. | |
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WarioWare: D.I.Y. got 100%, as the game itself is one of making games. The thinking was that NGamer made all the games, and NGamer is infallible. Therefore, NGamer’s games must be perfect. | |
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In one episode of Johnny Bravo, Johnny and Suzy entered a competition that (thanks to Johnny) they got 18th place in, when there were only twelve contestants. | |
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Swedish gaming magazine Super PLAY gave Brütal Legend 11/10. There were likely a few reasons for this, one being that 'this one goes to eleven' just fits the nature of the game, the other one being that it was the last issue of the magazine and they broke quite a few rules in it. | |
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Sexy Losers is the highest scoring entry on the List Of Potentially Offensive Webcomics, having been awarded six "toilets" out of a possible five. | |
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BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle has official stats for each character measuring their Attack, Speed, Range, Casualnote How easy the character is to use, and Luck, on a scale of one to eight stars. For some characters, however, the Luck stat is replaced with something else: Rachel Alucard has a Georg score of three frogs, a reference to her using a frog named George XIII extensively in her space control strategies from her home series. Iron Tager has a GETBnote Genesic Emerald Tager Buster score of eight stars. Nu-13 has a Ragna score of five hearts. Jubei's luck stat is replaced with paw prints, and this stat has a score of four additional sets of paw prints. Hakumen has a Counter score of five stars. Gordeau has a Grim Reaper score of six stars. Carmine has a Blood score or six stars. Badass Adorable characters such as Es, Platinum, Orie, and Ruby replace their luck stats with "Kawaii" stats, which range ten to twelve stars. |
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Terrorizer magazine gave Sunn O)))’s album Monoliths and Dimensions the rating O))). They actually intended this as a compliment, however, awarding it a glowing review. | |
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Hamatora received an "oh my god I don't care" out of 5. | |
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Mario’s Wacky World—4 "Captain Falcons driving Sonic like he was an F-Zero car" out of 5. "Yes!" "Yes!" "Yes!" "Yes!" | |
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In Hell's Kitchen, Chef Gordon Ramsay is very tempted to give incredibly bad Signature Dishes (especially if they hit one of his Berserk Buttons: canned ingredients) a zero, but he always gives them a one. | |
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Freddy Got Fingered received minus 1 star from the Toronto Star. No other movie has been rated so lowly. | |
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His X series successor, Kevvl14, thought that giving Blaze Heatnix from X6 a perfect 10 would almost be an insult to his time. He compromises by giving Heatnix the biggest ten he's ever given. | |
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Crash Thompson refused to review or rate Goodness, Gracious by Back Up Kid on the grounds that this was basically a basement recording by a hobbyist rather than a professional recording by a professional artist or musician. He then demanded his viewers consider how they'd feel if such meagre efforts of their own were held up to scrutiny. Thompson continued by stating that he did enjoy the recording, and encouraged Back Up Kid to keep making music. | |
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Throughout Roahm Mythril’s Mega Man Perfect Run videos, he strictly adheres to a scale of 1–10 for difficulty rankings, though there are some Robot Masters that test the limits. For example, he says that giving Top Man a score of 1 is being generous, because he wants to be fair by not going any lower. Conversely, Quick Man gets a 10, after which Roahm jokes “Can I give you more?� and temporarily fills the rest of the screen with rating icons and the text “OVER 9000!!� His X series successor, Kevvl14, thought that giving Blaze Heatnix from X6 a perfect 10 would almost be an insult to his time. He compromises by giving Heatnix the biggest ten he's ever given. |
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The Completionist: Jirard occasionally declines to give official ratings in circumstances when he's either close personal friends with the developers or has otherwise been involved behind-the-scenes, as he feels that he is just too biased in the game's favor for his ranking to be valid. (He'll still give unoffical ratings, though.) He's done this with Shovel Knight spinoffs Pocket Dungeon and Dig, and Wrestle Quest. However, he considered Sea of Stars so good that he excitedly encouraged viewers to "Complete it!" (his highest rating, that it's worth it to pursue 100% Completion) despite acknowledging his bias. | |
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Johnny "Guitar" Watson's 1954 instrumental "Space Guitar" was so out-there for its time that the Billboard magazine could only rate it a "??" out of 100. | |
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Bryan Alvarez of Wrestling Observer rated the The Iron Sheik and Nikolai Volkoff vs. The Bushwhackers match at the 1998 PPV, Heroes of Wrestling, "minus more stars than there are stars in the universe, and the universe is infinite". Similarly, Dave Meltzer rated the match as "Absolute Zero stars" note (-459.67 stars on the Fahrenheit scale, or -273.15 stars on the Celsius scale). | |
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The Wrestling Observer Newsletter became famous for these simply because few reviewed matches ever get more than 3 or less than 1 from the publication, at least when the difficult to impress Dave Meltzer is the one reviewing...that was until 1984 in Madison Square Garden when David Schultz defeated Rocky Johnsonnote as in Dwayne's father in a match Meltzer gave "minus 3 stars". This was surpassed at the 1985 The Wrestling Classic after Meltzer rated a match between Junkyard Dog and Moondog Spot "minus 5 stars", which presumably means cannot get any worse.note As of April 2022 5 matches have received the full negative monty and 109 matches have been rated below DUD. | |
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The Wind Spirit line got ratings of "Ew", "Nah", and "??!!?!??!???!????????", as they were generally decent (or at least interesting) designs, but they were incredibly skeevy as the Henshin Hero forms of a character meant to be eleven. | |
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The famous RPGNet review of F.A.T.A.L. awarded a 1/1 rating (out of five) for "Style/Substance", which the reviewers considered an insult to every other game that had scored so badly to date, but going any lower would require them to get the webmaster to modify some backend code. | |
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Soulmate Survey: A new matchmaking app named "Soulmate Searcher" takes the world of Miraculous Ladybug by storm. Unlike many other dating apps, this one has phenomenal, long-lasting success for pairing up couples. Of course, it’s supposed to be impossible for two people to match each other at higher than 85%. But when Marinette and Adrien sign up, they are matched with one another... at 100%. | |
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Game Players Magazine gave Cosmic Race a 0% (the only game to ever have this "honor") and even named the rating after the game; the next range up (1–9%) is "Shoot me" just to let the reader know how bad they felt the game was. | |
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Fire Emblem: Awakening is another game to rate its DLC maps with a star system. One star is easy and five stars is difficult. The map known as Apotheosis forgoes this and is only described with but one word. "Insane". | |
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Super Metroid Omega Boss Battles—4 Henshin-A-Go-Go Babies out of 5. | |
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The Legend of the Legendary Heroes got a bored face. | |
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The closest thing Yahtzee, the host of Zero Punctuation, gave to a numerical value was one of these. In his 2019 Games I Haven't Reviewed Roundup, his final score for Terminator: Resistance was Fine out of 10. | |
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One episode of Plumbing the Death Star ranks Super Smash Bros. 64's cast's stepfathering ability on a scale of ten. Things start off pretty bad when the two Pokémon both get zeroes for being wild animals, but things get even worse with Donkey Kong, a wild ape who can't talk, and worse, comes with in-laws. He gets a negative ten out of ten. | |
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Blogger Beware's retrospective on the original Goosebumps books lists the ten best and worst books. In the latter category, Chicken Chicken (a book he found to be absolutely horrible) ranks #0, with this paragraph accompanying it: | |
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Unshaved Mouse's review of Saving Mr. Banks ends with him withholding a score to the "piece of corporate propaganda". | |
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He also skipped out on ranting the Voyager episode, "11:59", for a similar reason, saying that he found it to be too much unlike Trek for him to make a qualified judgement on it. | |
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Apparently the first episode of Pop Team Epic broke everybody on ANN, with the majority of the scores being this. | |
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R15 got a GIF of a smiley head holding a gun to itself. | |
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In-universe example in How I Met Your Mother, for the price of a wedding dress. The scale given is “never� to “never ever�. The rating is “never ever ever ever ever times infinity�. It's later revealed to be $8,000. | |
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Skawo: When rating Green Stars, and all of Battle Belt Galaxy's Green Stars where in very similar uninspired places, the first two got a 0 stars/Odyssey Moon rating, while the third star gets a rating of negative 5 stars/Indescribable | |
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The Music Video Show had this in Episode 95. Near the end of each episode, the host sums up his feelings towards the video with Final Thoughts. In this episode, it is part of a Robot Chicken sketch involving a man throwing himself out a window, followed by a black screen with the words "AND THAT'S HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER" with the ending theme from Are You Afraid of the Dark?. | |
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SandTrap, a reviewer of the early days of Pojo's Yu-Gi-Oh! Card of the Day, had a habit of doing this quite often, at one point complaining about the fact that the site disapproved of his giving bad cards ludicrously negative ratings, when all cards are supposed to be rated from 1 to 5. A notable example is in his review of Bite Shoes, a card which he gave a rating of -75.3 out of 5 and said that he would give anyone using it a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown until they died. | |
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In the eponymous series, Automan has been programmed to learn from the best person in every discipline, so when he materializes for the first time and he discusses his abilities with his creator, he says literally "In a scale from 1 to 10, think of me as an eleven". | |
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The Hardcore Kid gives works a rating of "Hardcore Hit" if he likes them, and "Hardcore Headache" if he doesn't. Marvin Marvin got a "Hardcore Tumor" because of how reprehensible he found it, and Bagi, the Monster of Mighty Nature a "Hardcore Catflap" because it was such a Mind Screw to him. | |
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I Don’t Like You at All, Big Brother!! got a "GTFO" rating. | |
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IMDb’s user rating for This is Spın̈al Tap is out of 11. Subverted, though, as the film is currently rated 8.0 out of 11. | |
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Josh Strife Hayes' Worst MMO Ever? series rarely gives straight ratings out of 10, opting to give the MMOs he plays an odd but still apt description of his experience (e.g. NosTale got a Broken Tutorial Window/10, Vindictus got a Disappointing Abandoned Lovechild of Guild Wars and TERA/10, etc.). Aura Kingdom was the rare time he did give an actual score, mainly because it was good enough to avoid an insulting joke rating, but not good enough for an endearing one. | |
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Present in their famous sporking of the Kingdom Hearts badfic "Naga Eyes". The rating scale (sometimes more a warning scale) is typically 1 to 5 Shadows. For particularly terrible fics, there exists a rare rating of Ansem, which includes everything from 5 Shadows plus extra-high doses of WTF-ery. "Naga Eyes" earned an Ansem, but with this addition attached: | |
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In-universe on Friends when Joey is preparing to audition the role of a 19 year old. He wears a jersey over a t-shirt, a touque and boxers above his waistline, and says "wack" and "'sup". When he asks Chandler if he's 19, Chandler says "Yes. On a scale from one to ten, ten being the dumbest a person can look, you are definitely 19." | |
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ProtonJon: when he gives ratings to the romhacks he plays, he will usually let out a few of these, such as: Mario’s Wacky World—4 "Captain Falcons driving Sonic like he was an F-Zero car" out of 5. "Yes!" "Yes!" "Yes!" "Yes!" Super Metroid Omega Boss Battles—4 Henshin-A-Go-Go Babies out of 5. Resident Evil 5—Super Jeenius gives it "Resident Evil out of 10", Jon gives it "Football out of 10". |
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The film Species II got an F on the same scale. | |
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The hosts refused to rate Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing because giving it 1 star would imply that it was actually a game. Other games featured in the 'games you should never buy' segment, such as Barbie Horse Adventure or Flags (a 'flag waving in the wind' simulator), also were not rated. | |
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In the Gravity Falls short "Mabel's Guide to Dating", Soos somehow scores a twelve out of five on Mabel's dating quiz. | |
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Nu-13 has a Ragna score of five hearts. | |
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In one episode of Judgement Day, Tommy gave the game High Heat Baseball 2003 a 0.0. He really disliked the game and thought it had no good qualities. | |
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The TNG episode "Family" was a good natured case. While Chuck liked the episode, he refused to rate it because, as he put it, the episode consisted entirely of plot threads which in other episodes would've been B plots. | |
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