This engaging issue around the world of video games, specifically reviews in general for all major or non-major publications in general, are just opinionated. I considered this issue as difficult and can't understand why the people are giving out tens and why all series or franchises aren't perfect. While you probably will disagree with me, this is again, opinionated. This is just my perceptive on this issue from reflecting the past generations and now. While they are not absolutely true to other people, this is more than a myth than a reality. This is what I view or heard throughout my past and now gaming life for game publications. The introduction of the birth of gaming maybe won't be accurate enough, but these information, I got from is from the TV show, History of Gaming. If you agree with me, which is rarely or disagree, like I said before, I'm entitled to my opinion. This is seems to be maybe a rare question no one seems to answer or even tackled upon.

Ever since the birth of gaming, and the first released of the Odysseys(The Pong system), many games were released and surprisingly they were either good games or terrible. Its unimaginable technology back then was satisfying enough to purchase the console itself and also its brilliant gameplay. When Atari famous games like

Best Game ever?
Best Game ever?
Pac-man, Pong and Space Invaders were released on arcades, many people were awaiting to play this game with their pants filled with quarters. Clearly Atari was a huge success before, getting millions of dollars from just the Arcade. It was soon worldwide as these addicting games will soon be in songs and merchandise. Atari decided to make a console for at home, so they can play these games without going to the local arcade store. With its Joystick and vibrant graphics, its indeed a pure classic for many generations to come. When the Japanese game, Donkey Kong came out and soon revealed that Nintendo's first console in westernized side of the Earth, the Nintendo Entertainment System(NES) came out, it was a mash hit and easily defeat Atari from how much people are playing it. The main reason and everyone's favourite Super Mario Bros., the graphics are undeniably astounding to feast your eyes upon and its gameplay was glorious to its extent. Similar to Pac-man, Super Mario Bros was also appeared in merchandise, in songs and TV shows. To tradition from making awesome games continue that road with such hits like Legend of Zelda and Metroid.

 
Even before, gaming came into birth or even the TV or radio, newsprint was the only option for news and entertainment. The news ran from a publication they worked on. Each article express what their first impressions, their insights about the form of entertainment, politics and other and basically its like a review. Mainly because they are telling you what is going on in the world, or local, how was the game, telling some bio about the person's past, and other. With Advertisements rowing in their newspaper, sometimes they don't really wanted to say anything bad about the advertisement or the product of the advertisement because they are afraid that the company will fired them or lose lots of money from that causing them to sometimes be not that honest or biased as the fanboys or girls would say. When the big screen and music was invented, the birth of reviewing has commenced. The reviewers will tell you either this sort of entertainment was worth your while or not, giving you some sense that they are great or bad entertainment out there. So that they could take their advise and buy or watch that thing.

In that time, or later, the Nintendo Power and many magazines were publicized and mainly because they wanted to let fans and gamers alike to read their reviews, impressions and other to say that if this game is good or not, and should strongly suggested to take their recommendation. Many fans and gamers have first impressions, either that they think a review magazine was a good idea and they should take it, or think its a bad idea and buy what they wanted to. Either both of them, are both confusing at its own right because people change their decisions quickly after they saw a game that they wanted but received a low score and lost faith in them and second, those people disagreed in the first place will buy a game and will be left out disappointed with it. There are no truth from people even liking publications because sometimes a game that they craved or anticipated for got what they didn't predicted and hate them but still bare the pain for that game, move along and clearly return to trusting their reviews. Like its newspaper counterparts, magazines review games, give some sort of first impressions(previews), make some cool interesting features in their magazine and have

Bad idea for SquareEnix's part?
Bad idea for SquareEnix's part?
advertisements in their magazine. Like advertisers they sometimes will pull or ask to withdraw their advertisements because of a bad review and will lose the publications money. Some gaming companies will probably acknowledge the reviewer's opinion, sort it out why it got that score or review and make it better. While many or some games followed that path, some games somehow keep on getting terrible. This whole phenomenon soon will be free or most of the time free, with the new piece of technology and enabling us in the internet, the computer. These first ever companies created were Gamespot, IGN and Gamespy, prior to the reason why to make review that are quite longer than the magazine reviews, adding more content and such.

 
Genres out there are like for example Final Fantasy series, brought amount of gameplay, beautiful graphics, also redefine the word, RPG and such. But the series went on a bad turn to me and maybe others that agree with me, shooters With the installment of Dirge of Celebrus, many publications say that it lacked depth for a Final Fantasy game, and turn a bad route on this successful franchise. With an abysmal gameplay, bad controls and weak environment, it makes me wonder why they suddenly turned that way they did. Many fans of this series are just going to send death threats to me but its the reality, for the upcoming topic I'm going to answer is that not all companies are perfect.

This is the main issue for this topic, regarding about perfect games out there. In fanboy language or to sum it up with a few words, No games are perfect! Back to non-fanboy language, since the first perfect ten came out for a game in a publication, many gamers a-like were overjoyed because the favourite game scored a perfect 10, continuing to be on that magazine or site and raving that game is better than every game released. Its seems to awesome to see that the game is perfected by its technology and gameplay that its considered the best game of all time by the editors and fans. While its exciting to see that one-zero undering it perfect, some publications(I'm not going to name any) kinda abuse that system giving out more tens than expected, encouraging the developers to do more games will the same substance or sometimes like I said before, following the reviewers advise and exceedingly came out as a famous hit. Before you go blood-feud on me, let me remind you. When the editors first get the copy of the game and also other sort of entertainment, while they are playing it, as a assume for a moment, it probably got some flaws like glitches and bugs in the game but

Even a hint of a flaw can ruin a game.
Even a hint of a flaw can ruin a game.
forgot that they even exists, overcompensating with the joy of the game, with such revolutionary technology, such a huge leap towards gaming and such that they forgotten about that. Some proof that people think this game is the perfect game, or evidence is to go search on youtube, gamefaqs or other websites that tell you that sometimes the game is copied from other games and culture and bugs, glitches and exploits. Many people ignored this and just gave this game a perfect score, probably because some parts on the game sometimes you don't like, and such like bugs, glitches and exploits are even merely small that you don't witness it but they are there. It affects the game from being ever perfect, or something. While it can be sometimes cheating, like noclip to finding some secrets that are exploits to in hit titles like Zelda and such, they are merely a few glitches and bugs in there but no one witness it. 

 
Like I said before, No game is ever perfected in a gaming franchise, they could be perfected in story, graphics, gameplay and others such but there can be still a mere of a glitch, bug or a exploit in the game. Sometimes they could be a game will sound, technical, gameplay, and other bugs and glitches but the gamers disregarded them and just think of its revolutionary gameplay, story and graphics that made this game perfect. Its just confusing why the people are saying this game is perfect or something like that but still are over consumed with the joy of playing it but disregarded the glitches, bugs and exploits as a imagination. This was a myth or not to gamers' minds from the past to now. In the future how know that gaming will be ever perfected, they might look at the bugs, glitches and exploits at those Walk-through sites and with harnessing their technology they can achieve the impossible. I know many people will totally disagree with me but, if you have some slight problems in the game like some parts you don't like, parts of the game are copy from another sort of entertainment, voice acting to annoying little one liners, bugs, glitches and exploits, don't hesitate and have integrity or courage to give even a game that is close to a perfect a 9.9 or under, depending how much bugs, exploits and glitches, some parts they have technical issues to gameplay and graphics in general in the game. People might disagree with you but you should stand up for yourself, trust your instincts, and tell the gaming world that all games is NOT perfect but perfected in major parts and not perfect when on some issues like bugs, glitches, exploits and some parts you don't like to the few voices in the game to the one liners in dialogue that are annoying to you. I'm not bashing the developers and editors but I'm stating the fact that no game ever released in the whole life on gaming was ever perfect on everything. You might think that's harsh but developers think that its going to a perfect game but maybe issues like lack of dedication, low budget, not paying their game tester that much(sometimes they actually pay enough but they get consume in the world of the video game they are tested on and just avoid that small issues and tacked the big or medium issues in the game) and others that I can't think my own.

Another issue like I was going to say in my third paragraph about no franchise is ever perfect. Like I said, Final Fantasy is an example for not being a perfect series but rather a successful franchise to this date. Adored by critics and celebrated by fans, it become a hallmark of this series and beyond. Such games almost perfected the series but sometimes it can be repetitive, introducing new features but using them later, restoring graphics, implemented gorgeous cutscenes and such but decided its a good idea to make it into a shooter or any other genre and sometimes fail or implementing a system and other assortments and not succeeding its expectations. Legend of Zelda is a different example than others, making a darker blunter than others. When Legend of Zelda came out the series reach about 50+ million copies around the world, and granted a

Nearly to perfection?
Nearly to perfection?
successor of gaming, creating amounts of fan-service in communities, merchandise and most weird of them all cosplayers. Its popular because its very confusing storyline to date, addicting and brilliant gameplay, gorgeous graphics, amazing score like Final Fantasy and other. It become the Top Ten in Nintendo Power for almost probably three consecutive years or so. But when the idea of making the 2D Link jumping him into 3D, Nintendo decided to make the next game in the CD, partnering up with Sony. Sony then dropped the idea to make the Playstation and went to become a popular console. Nintendo then partnered with Philips, another CD-Rom company but Nintendo thought it was a bad idea and withdraw it. While partnership with Phillips, Nintendo offered the copyright of Link, Zelda and Ganon from the Zelda game. Philips went on to making its own console the Philips CD, and produced these games. These games were a mockery to the Legend of Zelda franchise, maybe Zelda fanboys or girls didn't heard of this but these games developed by Philips is just terrible to look at and its gameplay is abysmal. This was a bad blunder from Nintendo to do because if you departed your partnership and offer the licenses of Legend of Zelda's characters, you will soon know they could make a huge 
Bad idea for Nintendo's reputation?
Bad idea for Nintendo's reputation?
mockery to the series and probably deceive fans that know about this game and decided that Nintendo made a bad stunt or confused why Nintendo made a bad game but it wasn't Nintendo. Its these wonders, that is confusing, if you partnership with a company and withdraw it, you better not give the licenses to other companies that will make a mockery. Legend of Zelda still conceal those horrible games created by a different company and continuing to be a success, but people that play these games or even heard of it still lingered in their minds why did Nintendo do such a thing?


 
That's why a franchise will never be perfect like games in franchises, sometimes they take the wrong direction, make a bad deal, keep on looking at publications that are TOO nice to them(giving high scores they don't deserve), no integrity, adverstiments and avoiding the professionals like Gamespot(its past crew that are gone), they should take the advice of them and make it even better but not too great because sometimes they seemed to be overdoing it. I'm not saying that Gamespot is the only honest video reviews, they have some bad turns too but at least only a selected amount of games were perfect Tens, and a game like Tony Hawk isn't a perfect game and like other publications saying all Legend of Zelda games are perfect but maybe not Majora's Mask. In the words of Alex Navvaro, "when we feel like a game is a perfected, its deserves a Ten" or something like that, from Burning Question but that feature is long gone. So they are no such things as a perfect game out there, they can be astounding or brilliant or something better but never a perfect game. If I feel like this game is received excellent by critics and its awesome storyline, graphics, revolutionary technology, gameplay and others, I'm not going to give it a TEN rather a 9.9 because like I said, there could be a slight problem in the game that you don't like or glitches, bugs or exploits.