Biased Sites

[Desroko]

Legend11 said:

Sqrl said:

Legend11 said:

naznatips said:
Well that's ridiculous Legend. You found 3 sites who's scores were all grossly off-balance, vs HS's original post which was about the major reviewers in the game industry.

It's not ridiculous at all... If we start removing these minor sites I mentioned with very dubious scoring it would slowly begin to lower the site's average for Wii games and bring the sites HappySquirrel mentioned more in line with the Gameranking's Site average for the Wii.

For example lets look at Game Vortex:

Game	Score	GameRanking's Avg
Avatar: The Last Airbender	95%	63.7%
Call of Duty 3	96%	69.2%
Kororinpa: Marble Mania	98%	71.1%
Metal Slug Anthlogy	95%	73.7%
Spider-Man 3	80%	56.9%
Surf's Up	85%	67.5%
SSX Blur	95%	74.1%

Can they be trusted as a review site?

The problem with what you're saying is you want to weight the effect of a site like Game Vortex the same as IGN or 1Up. But does game vortex do anything near the volume of traffic that IGN or 1Up gets?

They don't have as much traffic as IGN or 1Up but their score has the same weight on gamerankings.

Except that, as I've already said, the sample size is big enough that no single publication has a lot of weight. GR has over 2000 Wii reviews alone. A single review is only going to comprise .05% of the average.