OttoniBastos on 26 March 2014
| Augen said: Metacritic is only "bad" if one allows it to affect their judgment. For example, writing off a game below a set aggregate numerical valuation seems bizarre to me and creates a myopic group think mentality. Many games are simply different and fall into niche interests. I have had a great deal of fun with games, then later checked the Metacritic (mainly due to this site where people seem to care more about that site than anywhere else I have been) and find they fall well below 90, 80, or even 70. At this stage in my life, I know my tastes. I know by looking at videos and playing a demo if an experience appeals to me. I honestly never considered any game as "I enjoyed that to an 83% satisfaction". It is far simpler; "I love it, like, felt indifferent, didn't care for it, found no redeeming qualities". |
The problem with metacritic is that if the game is Ultra mega super good and receive universal acclaim(AKA 9s and 10s) the biased sites(like polygon) can't hurt the game metascore but when the game is just "good", the polygon and adam sessler's kind of sites can actually hurt the metascore bigtime with their 5/10 which put the game on the "7x zone" which for most people,unfortunately, means " it's crap i will buy when cost $5 or wait for PS+/gold free".
