User blog comment:Airos/Rant: Why I dislike PC gaming/@comment-2249418-20110608112623/@comment-164376-20110608191921

Right, I believe that New Vegas got a lower score (84) because it didn't do enough to fix the problems present in Fallout 3. Fallout 3, however, got a 93! This does not mesh with your statement that only perfect games get scores near 100. Your claim that StarCraft 2 got a rating of 93 was because it was a near perfect game that was industry changing. Fallout 3 on the XBox360 received the same rating, so does that also make it a near perfect game that was industry changing? I don't believe it does.

The game was a mess, BethSoft knew it was a mess and the reviewers knew it was a mess, yet it somehow got a score equal to that of StarCraft 2. Critics failed to mark Fallout 3 down at all.

And not to put too fine a point on it, user ratings for Fallout 3(Xbox) is an average of 8.4, while user ratings of StarCraft 2 is an average of 8.2.

A game can earn full marks regardless of how crappy it is, because the gaming community as a whole has come to accept them.