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Boutros on 30 September 2009

http://www.notaboutgames.com/home/2009/09/metacritic-math.html

I’ve just found a very strange thing about the metacritic score and how the final numbers are rounded. Take a look at Halo3:ODST and Uncharted 2 and how they are treated differently.

HALO 3 ODST
Total score 5169 in 62 reviews= 83,3
The final score is rounded UP to 84

UNCHARTED 2
Total 2046 in 21 reviews=97,4
The final score this time is rounded DOWN to 97

wtf?

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lol. How can we be sure he calculated right though... He might be biased himself.

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WereKitten said:

Nonsense.

There's a page on Metacritic linked from everywhere in their site, explaining that the overall score is a weighted average. We don't know the weights they're using on each source, so we can't replicate their calculation.

I don't give that much importance to the Metacritic average, but at least people should learn to read.



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inverted3reality on 30 September 2009

Well, they should both be rounded down. I'm not sure why they rounded odst up.



Nintendogamer on 30 September 2009

That's why Game rankings is betetr since they use decimal points to make things more accurate.



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Chairman-Mao on 30 September 2009

I think metacritic doesn't count the lowest and the highest review. If I'm right that could change your numbers a bit.



Stefan.De.Machtige on 30 September 2009

The only usefull thing on metacritic is the user score.



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dsister44 on 30 September 2009

Metacritic is not biased. It is runs by Americans, what do you expect?


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WereKitten on 30 September 2009

Nonsense.

There's a page on Metacritic linked from everywhere in their site, explaining that the overall score is a weighted average. We don't know the weights they're using on each source, so we can't replicate their calculation.

I don't give that much importance to the Metacritic average, but at least people should learn to read.



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Ratchetti on 30 September 2009

OMGWTFBBQ!?!? Uncharted is rated right, but ODST isn't, not because they are biased, but because they haven't change the score >__>. Very useless thread.



Boutros on 30 September 2009
WereKitten said:

Nonsense.

There's a page on Metacritic linked from everywhere in their site, explaining that the overall score is a weighted average. We don't know the weights they're using on each source, so we can't replicate their calculation.

I don't give that much importance to the Metacritic average, but at least people should learn to read.

That's right.



TheTruthHurts! on 30 September 2009

Honestly, I think that if ODST had released as an Expansion or DLC it would be low 90's average. It is a great game, and the almost every review states this, however, the fact that (to some) it's content is not worth the price, it's score is much lower that it could/should have been.

Oh, and regarding biased towards Uncharted 2. I am confident that the game is actually worthy of it's reviews!

I will be playing ODST and Uncharted 2 this holiday, so as a gamer, I am very very happy regardless of review average.