Metacritic isnt going to convince me to like your crappy game.

[Kantor]

CAL4M1TY said:
Last time I checked, metacritic gave the average from the scores of a certain group of people, not the score you give a game.

If you like a 60% game, that's fine. If you hate a 90% game, also fine.

Point is, the majority of people feel the opposite, and that'd be the point of metacritic. I'm not saying the majority is right, but it's more likely that the majority will buy more than you and the people who feel differently about those scores.

I'm glad you have an opinion, but from an argumentative standpoint, what's more credible, the average score from a large number of people or the opinions of one person?

I don't like using metacritic in my arguments either, but the fact of the matter is, you can't convince me Lair is a good game (PS3 fanboy) or Too Human a good game (360 fanboy) or Wii Music a good game (Wii fanboys) when the majority of people find them to bad games.

I'm not saying the majority is right, nor do I follow that majority, but the fact of the matter is, more often than not, they are correct (at least correct with my opinion anyway).

Also, God Hand is a very very very average game, and last time I checked, 70% was not shovelware, 70% by most peoples definition is average. God Hand is just that, Average (In my opinion of course).

My advice, don't pay attention to metacritic scores and just trust sites you feel are credible (for me, that'd be IGN and Gametrailers). I base alot of my purchases on these 2 websites and they're rarely wrong (for me).

I'll use your example: Assassin's Creed. IGN gave it a 7.7 and Gametrailers gave it 9.1. I borrowed the game from a friend and played the entire game, I'd give it somewhere in the middle of those two. Incidently, that's what it got on gamerankings (82% for the version I played). Am I saying that gamerankings is accurate then? for me, perhaps, but my example is as baseless and as pointless as the ones you've given in your OP (you didn't give proper reasons why you didn't like them, you gave fanboy speeches, many of which are those who haven't even played the game)

Sorry to destroy your argument, but GTA4 and Uncharted.

EDIT: Fine, the majority of people agree with the majority of game's metascores. I would give Assassin's Creed around a 7.7 actually. It was repetitive, confusing, and really not that much fun to play (once you pass a certain point).