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Does metacritic correlate with your gaming tastes?

Yes 20 29.85%
 
No 33 49.25%
 
Undecided 11 16.42%
 
See results 3 4.48%
 
Total:67

metacritic is irrelevant to me o.o



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Nier-67
Spec ops: the line-76
Bullet witch: 55
Journey: 92
atelier meruru: 66
Disgaea 4: 80
Valkyria chronicles: 86

Just to mention a few of my favorites games for the last gen. Never cared about metacritic.com



Generally it does but sometimes I don't agree with the scores of some games.



    

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On every game? No.


Generally speaking? Yes.

"MK8" and "Bayonetta 2" are my favorite Wii U games.

"DKC: Tropical Freeze" was criminally underrated by most of the gaming press, though. On the other hand they rated "Bloodborne" highly, and it's the only game on my PS4 that I give a crap about...

EDIT:

Headshot said:

I actually think that GOTY awards are a lot worse in comparison.

Good point. 



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Alkibiádēs said:

This does correlate well with my gaming tastes, although I think Bravely Default and Luigi's Mansion have way too high scores on metacritic. Bravely Default has an uninteresting and generic story and chapter 5-8 are the biggest BS I've experienced this generation. How that game got away with all that BS I'll never know. Critics, start doing your job...

Well, i liked it, the dialogues changed a lot and also the battles. You could just put random encounter in 0 and sprint towards the last temple. I think it is possible to do 5-8 pretty fast actually, if one wants.



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Not at all.

I really dislike metacritics.



I'm not going to type up my whole collection, but I'll give you a for instance:

The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds is my favorite 3DS games and it has a 91%, pretty spot-on. However, I'd rate Pokémon Y as one of the worst mainline games in the series, down there with Red and Blue, yet it was praised by critics as one of the best and had an 88% Meta score.

In that case, it's a give-and-take with online raking or critic sites of any sort for me. Whether it's movies, games, books, etc.



Wii U collection:

- Mario Kart 8 (88)
- Pikmin 3 (87)
- ZombiU (77)
- Super Smash Bros. U (92)
- Super Mario 3D World (93)
- Wind Waker HD (90)
- CoD: Black Ops II (81)
- Rayman Legends (92)
- Nintendo Land (77)

Average: 86,33
Favorite games: Pikmin 3, ZombiU, Mario Kart 8.
Disliked games: 3D World, Rayman Legends.

3DS collection:

- Pokemon X (87)
- Mario&Luigi: Dream Team (81)
- Mario Kart 7 (85)
- Super Mario 3D Land (90)
- Kid Icarus: Uprising (83)
- Luigi's Mansion Dark Moon (86)
- Ocarina of Time 3D (94)
- Nintendogs + cats (71)
- StarFox 64 3D (81)
- New Super Mario Bros. 2 (78)

Average: 83
Favorite games: Pokemon X, 3D Land,  Mario Kart 7.
Disliked games: StarFox 64 3D, NSMB2.
Mixed feelings: Kid Icarus Uprising, Ocarina of Time 3D.



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Nope I mostly disagree with metacritic scores. God Of War III has a lower metacritic score than Uncharted 2 and 3 but I like it far more than both of those games. There are many other similar cases.



i retired them before i heard of them. i was trained in the CGIQ academy, to buy and play the games i want without regard to reviews. obvious exceptions are wrestling games.