Considering there is quite a number of troll reviews by Slant and the likes, 80 is quite good. All reviewers I trust praised the game as by far the most ambitious and best QD game yet.

yvanjean said: JRPGfan said: lower than I thought.... cant believe someone gave it a 40, that review lost his mind. go read the review ....  Video Gamer: https://www.videogamer.com/reviews/detroit-become-human-review Detroit: Become Human wants to move you. It wants to elicit an emotional response through its story. The thing is, it really doesn't. The flowchart is a nice inclusion and adds some variance, but when the narrative is as cringey and ham-fisted as it is you won't want to play through it multiple times. 4 Out of 10 The illusion of choice creates tension Its message is poorly delivered Story is muddled Silly dialogue is quite common   DigitallyDownloeaded: http://www.digitallydownloaded.net/2018/05/review-detroit-beyond-human-sony.html Even if you can overlook the troublesome philosophies that permeate Detroit, you still won’t find much interesting here. The story loses a lot of its charm once it goes from dealing with day-to-day android life to trying to tell a huge event that will change the shape of civilization. It falls into a common trap of video game writing, as it forces the player into life or death situations constantly. These mostly fall flat and players are left with a game that really doesn’t have much to say that wasn’t already incredibly obvious from the start. Racism and slavery is bad, folks. You can probably figure that out without playing Detroit, and if you can’t then David Cage’s writing isn’t going to change your backwards thinking in any way.

Such a joke review, really. Embarrassing actually.

I rather trust ACG, Easy Allies and Skill-Up...the best reviewers in the business, who all praised the game despite a few flaws.

You do realize that spamming Legend of Dragoon in threads that are not relevant only entices people not to play the game, and get a stigma against it, right?

I think one of the things a lot of people don't get about David Cage's work is that the characters are MEANT to be melodramatic. His writing style is very akin to things like Mystic River, or a stage plays. Same thing goes for Ninja Theory, another highly divisive studio due to their penchant for theatricality.

Many people of today might be to used to their characters being stoic and borderline emotionless. I personally am a big fan of big emotional stories.

That is my biggest issue with scoring in game reviews. What is the basis?

I always think of a review like grading a paper in High School. 70% is a D-. At bare minimum, that is the lowest the average game should go. It takes a shear lack of care and effort in the integrity of a game to be below that line. It would need to be incomplete broken mess. Detroit is obviously not. The writing might not jive that well for everyone, but at minimum they gave an experience of some sort.

Anytime I see a score this low I cannot help but assume it is for an agenda. To askew the aggregated pool on something they never cared much about. Or even worse, for Clicks.

People sometimes fail to understand that the grading, much like scoring and reviewers, isn't the same everywhere. A 5/10 would have let you pass high school from where I am, since it's an "average" score that also means you've successfully overcomed any paper you've handed in.

Also I find it very crazy that people somehow have to put the average at 7, precisely because all my life I've worked with 5 as the break point. It messes up the idea of a scale entirely, because that'd mean it is always tilted toward somewhere past 5. So while you think anything below a 7 must have a hidden agenda, I find it incredible that people cannot conceive in any way that a functional game that plays bad or boring in the eyes of the reviewer gets a 4.

While I cannot comment on the game itself, since I haven't played it, DigitallyDownloaded repeatedly says they've enjoyed previous Quantic Dream games, and they justify the score by saying that story-heavy, story-oriented games who have issues with their story should be reviewed more harshly on this department, since story is a huge deal in these games (and probably the reason for most to play them). If we apply math, their 2/5 star grading gets converted to a 4/10 in a 10-scale, without adding any further balance or grading aspect to it.

At the same time, I heavily disagree with Metacritic's obsession of putting games in the green area past the 75 score (something they don't do with movies, for example). Opencritic, on the other hand, has a much more commendable way to view it even if they still seem to position themselves above the 5/10 (a 6/10 in Opencriti is "fair", as far as I know). They also convert letter grades to numeric by default where F equals 0, not 7, as stated by their faq.

I really didn't mean to make a discussion about scores here, I just saw too many people complaining about the same and felt like giving my input. At the same time I don't really redirect my comment entirely to you, cloud, but since you were the last person to post I figured you'd be the best one to quote.

I expected it to be an 8/10 at most. This kind of games are "weird", because they can definitely offer more actual gameplay instead of QTEs, but for some reason Quantic Dream does not want to give it to us. I really dont get it.

When Heavy Rain was released it had that kind of gameplay, but QTEs were kind of accepted because of the bombastic moments it could bring; but as technology moves forwards those bombastic events can now be offered via true gameplay, and that is what most people is expecting these days.

One of my most hyped up games and I am not dissapointed. I either like a game or hate it. A 10 or a 0 is my typical score. One good thing about these reviews is that I can find a cheaper copy of Detroit soon on ebay :D

What about the three reviews that gave 95%, they clearly failed to capture what the game will offer. If you go read their review and ignore the score, you will see that the critics are simply voicing their valid opinions and concerns.  

That's the beauty of metacritic you take three abnormally high 95's and add in two abnormally low 40's you get .... a meta of 73.  Once you get enough reviews, you will get a proper Metacritic  that will be off by +/- a few point a few over critical score good or bad won't matter. We put way to much emphasis on a number (myself included) and because of our over-reaction low and high score are used for click baits. 

As a fan of Xbox and State of Decay, the metacritic of 68 for State of Decay 2 is a huge concern. Not, because I think the reviewer did an awful job (some of them may of been overly critical) But, a low meta does show that there clearly some problem with the game that has consumers we should be made aware. 

heavy rain was one of my most memorable games on ps3, if this is similar, I'll get it eventually