Giant Bomb

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WiiStation360 said:

I used to listed the their podcast, but their 20 minutes of energy drink reviews every episode was just too much.

Stars do not translate well into percentages for Metacritic. More sites are going to letter grades or star rating from 10 or 100 point scales, so the problem is getting worse.

3 stars is an average game on a 5 star scale. A 60% game on a 100 point scale is bad.

A 4 star game is a very good game, while the translated 80% is average.

A 5 star game is great, while a 100% game is perfect.

A jump from 4 to 5 stars make a game go from average to perfect on Metacritic.

 

Agreed.  That's why I tend to not listen when people use sites like Metacritic to back up their arguments.  Since the system is not unified it's not possible to accurately aggregate the scores.  People should read the actual reviews instead of just looking at the score at the end.