Are skill games rated purely on the star rating? | Forums

[rlmergeuser]

I noticed a lot of skill games that are barely playable yet have 4 stars.
I think the reason for this is that you can only vote on a game once you beat it, so these games are only voted on people who really want to vote on them or who spend a lot of time struggling their way to the finish. This is fine and all, but I was wondering if there was more to how games are selected as "the best games" than just their score.

For example, if I make a game that you can only beat by knowing where some super obscure secret is and only tell my friends about it and have them all beat it and give it 5 stars, is that game going to be considered better than a 4 star game that has 20,000 votes?

[rlmergeuser]

I agree it's stupid. I was playing a platformer type thing the other day, and I fell off, and didn't die, and just walked out the map. From there I couldn't beat it even if I wanted to, without playing through it all over again, so I just quit, but couldn't rate it down (Which I would have, it was terrible, the jump wasn't even a proper jump, it made you change variation, which sort of "threw" you up in the air).