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yvanjean on 01 June 2018
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DonFerrari said:

yvanjean said:

That's what happen if you can't maintain professionalism you get decommissioned. 

I'm not saying they are all professional most of the review writers are young college kids with very little experience.... but the Metascore make their review irrelevant. 

Going back to Detroit: Become Human of the 84 reviews most are from credible source and websites. If someone did not enjoy the game and use a 5 point scale .... 2/5 (40%) isn't trolling it's just a negative review.   Reviewer backed up his score with an article that explain why he din't like it. 80 average isn't there because all reviews should be 80%, it's what the game got from compiling all review score. 

Thanks for backtracking.

Not liking a game isn't the main metric for any score. He is reviewing a game not scoring his enjoyment. Unless you find it acceptable if I would score Halo a 0 because I totally don't like the game.

Only a moron would give zero to a game that is not completely broken ... but Metacritic has often been criticized for taking 5 point scales review at face value. 

5 point scale which reviews games based on 5- Strongly Satisfied 4 - Somewhat satisfied 3- Neither Satisfied or Dissatisfied 2 - Somewhat Dissatisfied 1- Strongly Dissatisfied result in score of 20% and 40%. The reviewer are not really bashing the game has unplayable but rather their scale is different then the rest of the industry.  But, if people actually read review instead of simply looking at the score they would understand what is going on. 

If you remove both 40% review the metascore would only go up by 0.96 ((100 / 85 reviews * 80%) - (100 / 87 reviews *40%)) X 2 reviews.

Last edited by yvanjean - on 01 June 2018