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Diomedes1976 on 03 October 2008
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xman said:
Diomedes1976 said:
Metacritic doesnt mean anything in this.

Reason?Listen

1)There are a lot of games that are both in the PS3 and the 360 and the 360 counts as a 90+ and the PS3 one a 80+ just because the PS3 game was released some months later(GRAW2,Colin Mc Rae DiRT,many others).

2)There are absolutely heaps of Live Arcade games in the Xbox list over 70 and 80.Admittedly theres some PSN games too but far less and to be brutally fair the less that 50Mb Live games can hardly compete with the GT5P ,Warhawk ,Wipeout HD ,Siren and other PSN offerings.We are comparing here apples and oranges ,basically ,but the Live oranges are very numerous and distorsionate the raw numbers.

3)THe PS1 games in the store arent counted.The better example ....Castlevania Symphony of the Night is in both plattforms but only counts as a 90+ in the 360 as the PSN game is a PS3/PSP offering.This is absolutely unfair ,as many 360 offerings are old games(Rez,Soul Calibur,many more) yet the PS3 cant count the old PS1 games in its gamerankings numbers.

4)Many of the games that make the difference in the total numbers are old iterations of the sports franchises ,and old games as GRAW1 and Condemned1.While Condemned 1 could be argued as a different game ,I think nobody in its sense would imply the 360 library is better because having Madden 06 and Madden 07 ,Tiger Woods 06 and 07 ,NBA Live ,NBA 2k,NHL ,NHL 2K ,Fifa and the awful PES6 from years past.The same with GH2(a solid 90+ in the 360 list while the better GH3 has less in both PS3 and 360..),GRAW1 and a couple other games.


All this makes that the metacritic comparisions should be vastly adjusted.

Right now ,the PS3 and the 360 have comparable libraries.The 360 has better JRPG(although not a single AAA title there) and the PS3 has better plattform games ,better music games(it adds Singstar to the Rockband and GH),and some things more original (Eye of Judgement).All in all ,comparable.

Ok read and listened!

1) I agree with that you are getting and old ported game and if you have pay $60.00 as in the case of bioshock thats a rip off for the PS3 owner so I agree with it getting a lower rating

2) The live games are amazing you should give them a try castle crashers and Braid are truly STUNNING games.  You are judging them cause of there file szie.  By the way the limit is 250mb know and braid was 144 mb.  But I dont care if it was 20mb the game is awesome.  Your right there are a large number of live games and they were rated highly cause they are awesome just goes to show it has a better library

3)That one I will give you

4) So what you can still buy the old games such as GRAW again more games, highly rated better libaray.  A library includes the older games yes 360 came out first and that is part of the reason for its bigger library, so what its bigger and better

No what you mean is right know PS3 and 360 are roughly getting the same amount of games. the library is sitll bigger and better on the 360.

 

 

Still ,its the same.Most of the 15 90+ games on the 360 are on the PS3 too ....just with a lower score because released some months later.For the user is the same ,and for the richness of the library is the same .....we can argue it has a better library because in gamerankings those equally good games have a 0.2 difference between them because released late on the PS3.

 The old sports games are outdated ,and still count for a good 15+ games in the 80+ range for the 360.Yes ,it was an advantage back then ...when the PS3 wasnt even in the market.Right now ,they arent as you can buy the 2008 and 2009 versions for the PS3 the 2008 at discounted price too.

The Live games may be great ,not denying it.BUT ,and its a big BUT ,they are scored based on their price and limitations.A 90 for a Live arcade game isnt the same that for a full release.If Rez was released with a 69 price tag I assure you it wouldnt get so good an score.But the PSN games are many times 29-39 dollars and have up to 9GB of data(Siren for example).Its comparing apples and oranges,and the apples of the Live make for a massive bulk of the difference of the libraries in metacritic.

 

I think my points are perfectly valid.If we would take out the Live/PSN only games ,the old sports games ,GHII (useless if you have the superior GH3 with a lot more downloadable content) and some other little adjusts you would see a very different landscape.