You can't expect everyone to be on the exact same scale. The good thing about reviews is that there is a wide range of taste and subjectivity. There's a lot of games that I love which are in the 60s on Metacritic. It doesn't mean everything.
| Bryank75 said: I would like to bring a case to highlight the problem with having no vetting process for reviews.... The individual provides reviews and other pieces for a website called "Games Revolution", he was banned from NeoGaf for his biased posts and troll-like behavior. He can be often spotted posting on various comment sections around the web, usually heavily endorsing anything Microsoft does and criticizing anything Sony does.... https://twitter.com/MrJonnyBigBoss Have a good look at his tweets, is this a person that should be reviewing games? (He is only one of the contributors to Games Revolution, there are many) |
So which of his reviews do you have a problem with? Seems he's only written a handful.
Also, GAF is extremely Sony biased, so pointing out that he got banned from there doesn't mean anything. Next you'll tell me some Republican got banned from there.
| DeadnBuried said: I genuinely think that Metacritic nails it more often than not. If you're looking at a game in a genre or style you like, and it has an 80+, the chances are you're going to love it. If it's a high score but not a genre you like, obviously you won't like it. Same goes for lower scores; a game might only get 60 or so, but if it's a genre you really love then you're obviously going to appreciate it more anyway, so even though it's not as well-made as other games, you'll still like it. Metacritic is a great tool as long as you understand what it is; a collection of opinions. It's scores don't tell you if you'll love a game or hate it, they tell you if it's a good example of that particular style of game, if it's well-made or not. The rest is up to the reader to decide if they'd like it or not. |
Exactly. Pick a couple of reviews, and read them. Then consider the genre. Just blindly following the metacritic score is silly. Game X got 79 so I won't buy it! Game Y got 80, so I'll buy it!
Metacritic is nothing more than a collection of the opinions of other gamers. The only difference between user scores, and metacritic scores, is that the paid reviewers can't give a game a 0/10, or a 10/10. There are generally three types of users that review a game. The first type is Timmy. He hasn't played very many good games in his life. As a result Timmy will give anything that is great a 10/10. The second type is Brutus. Brutus is a spoiled child, and gets angry over tiny things. Any game that isn't utter perfection gets a 0/10 from Brutus. The third and final type is John. John could be a paid reviewer. He uses good judgement when he reviews a game.
Metacritic doesn't do much other than removing the trolls, and noobs from the game reviews equation.
Metacritic suposedely don't accept any reviews, they do have some requirements and standards.
Although the argument that is too loose, wouldn't be wrong.
You are free to make a site with your curated sites review indexed and averaged and weighted according to you heart desire, you could even cash in if you site was good.
Just for clarification tho, big name sites have a higher weight on the avarage than small/indie sites, so metacritic score isnt all that bad.
I really don't care about MC, or the way big publications score their reviews.
I tend to rate games from 1-5 stars system in which:
0 stars = 0-5 (or 0-4)
1/2 star = 6-15 (or 5-14)
1 star = 16-25 (or 15-24)
1 1/2 star = 26-35 (or 25-34)
2 stars = 36-45 (or 35-44)
2 1/2 stars = 46-55 (or 45-54)
3 stars = 56-65 (or 55-64)
3 1/2 stars = 66-75 (or 65-74)
4 stars = 76-85 (or 75-84)
4 1/2 stars = 86-95 (or 85-94)
5 stars = 96-100 (or 95-100)
This is something I believe AdventureGamers.com reviewers are using (I might be wrong though, but that's how I've interpreted it) and I like that there's actual range for every half-step, instead of fixed X/10 or XX/100. In this system I'll consider all games with 3 stars or more, and occasionally even with 2 1/2 stars.
But in the end, reviews are mostly just personal opinions, there are plenty of games I love that have low(er) and plenty of those I think are bad that have very high scores.
It's just crazy that there is bonuses for developers hanging in the balance of those metacritic reviews.
| HoloDust said: I really don't care about MC, or the way big publications score their reviews. I tend to rate games from 1-5 stars system in which: 0 stars = 0-5 (or 0-4) 1/2 star = 6-15 (or 5-14) 1 star = 16-25 (or 15-24) 1 1/2 star = 26-35 (or 25-34) 2 stars = 36-45 (or 35-44) 2 1/2 stars = 46-55 (or 45-54) 3 stars = 56-65 (or 55-64) 3 1/2 stars = 66-75 (or 65-74) 4 stars = 76-85 (or 75-84) 4 1/2 stars = 86-95 (or 85-94) 5 stars = 96-100 (or 95-100) This is something I believe AdventureGamers.com reviewers are using (I might be wrong though, but that's how I've interpreted it) and I like that there's actual range for every half-step, instead of fixed X/10 or XX/100. In this system I'll consider all games with 3 stars or more, and occasionally even with 2 1/2 stars. But in the end, reviews are mostly just personal opinions, there are plenty of games I love that have low(er) and plenty of those I think are bad that have very high scores. |
I prefer a star system too, because a star system actually use every note available, a shitty game get 1 star, instead of 40/100 on metacritic. Which is completely stupid.
It's also way less punitive I think.
the obvious most important problem with metacrtitic is that they dont allow Japanese reviewers or any none western voice.
Even Germany is held back as i dont see popular german review sites there either, only unknown german sites who probably are on Gamespots thumb
| Ruler said: the obvious most important problem with metacrtitic is that they dont allow Japanese reviewers or any none western voice. Even Germany is held back as i dont see popular german review sites there either, only unknown german sites who probably are on Gamespots thumb |
That is an excellent excellent point.
I'll answer everyone else when I get some time.... I am reading when I get a minute.
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