Starcrafts signature will shine! Xbox 360 will have > 20 90+ games xmas 09?

[Squilliam]

Skeeuk said:

Squilliam said:

Million said:
I'm curious , does the 90+ rating improve the gameplay experience for you than a 89.9 game ? . Does a 89 rating cause some of the games coding to go faulty causing framrate problems and pop in issues ?. I guess opinion is most weapon for fanboys.

This obsession with 90+ Ratings is pointless and your probably only pushing it so hard because the XBOX 360 has the most 90+ rated games out of the 3, in truth I still think other consoles offer better gaming libarys regardless of what the reviewers give.

Uncharted 88
BloomBox 85
Ratchet and Clank 89
Resistance Fall of Man 86
Motorstorm 82 .

All the above are excellent games (10/10) imo but none scorred 90+ aggregate.

Bioshock 96

Portal 91

Call of Duty 4 94

Forza Motorsport 2 90

Braid 93

Would be considered an awesome collection, and they also all deservedly scored 90+ ratings. Whereas the games you listed had flaws which prevented them from reaching the same rating.

Hey I like to keep an eye on the scores. Its an awesome discovery to find another awesome game out there, and without Metacritic I would have missed out on quite a few gems - especially from the previous generations Like ICO and Shadow of the Collossus.

 

flippin heck this is getting confusing, portal is a better game than forza motorsport 2? a flagship racer is a lesser off game than an expansion pack?

i know you always put out metacritic list it certainly shows 360 having a higher collection of 90+ aggregated games out there but...................... just one question below

Blue Dragon	Condemned 2: Bloodshot	Condemned: Criminal Origins	Crash of the Titans	Dead Rising
Eternal Sonata				Kameo: Elements of Power
Lost Odyssey		Perfect Dark Zero	Spider-Man: Friend or Foe	Turok

can we have a confirmation from you that portal and braid should be purchased over the collection shown above^

because as you are putting it, a metacritic higher score makes that specific game lol the better game for the gamer.

Well considering that Portal especially and braid are seen by a majority of people who play then as "must play" games then yes because there are very few games you could purchase for $25 with the same value as a combination of Braid and Portal.

They may not be full games in the sense of a development budget, but they are fully great games which I encourage anyone to go out and play.  Development budgets don't make the game, its the experience.

So whilst I can't say that individually the experience in every game you play is going to be good. You can always apply your own values, and filter from the list the games that might appeal to you. Its a great starting place and the top of any list is usually the best place to start. A JRPG fan may add 10 points to the score of TOV before even considering the game, an FPS hater may think of the score of Gears of War 2 to be 10 points less than the stated Metacritic.

One thing I do find unifying about the top of the list, is that those are games which tend to breach the walls of their own genres and appeal to people outside of their specific genres. Which is why its great for people wanting to try out a new game. The games at the top of the list are the ones they are most likely to be able to appreciate as to get a high score a game has to resonate with a larger group of people.

This is also why its a good place to start when recomending games to people, new experiences, excellent polish, wide appeal beyond the genre are all features present in some form for every game at the top.