| Rei said: I don't care what you don't care about metacritic. I don't have enough money or time to play every game out there and metacritic helps me to decide what to buy. Metacritic matters. |
And that's a good use of the service. Go you! Fortunately, the OP's central point wasn't that Metacritic should be done away with, just the the numbers provided are a poor choice of foundation for any game-versus-game arguement, and that the reviewers used have proven themselves to be less than perfect on a number of occassions, meaning the numbers have even less objective use.
So, your 'Metacritic matters' comment is not necessarily opposed to his 'metacritic is absolutely pointless' comment, the OP was just generalising widely due to his frustrations, and tackling a different topic to you.
Seriously, you don't think the numbers on Metacritic actually mean anything do you? Does scoring an 89 really make a game significantly worse than if it scores a 90? If you say no, then you're agreeing with the OP's argument, if not his (understandably) over-blown conclusion.
