Metacritic = BS!

[snyperdud]

WereKitten said:

snyperdud said:
I don't understand why reviews are brought up in an argument anyway.

All they are is one person's opinion.And pretty much anyone else's besides my own mean absolutely nothing to me.Everyone has different tastes and a different way of looking at a game.

Metacritic is just an accumulation of these opinions.They mean absolutely nothing.

Well, it's quite clear why: the silly search for "authority by proximity", and please underscore that "silly" a few times :)

Still those opinions are not worthless when you can't have an informed one... for example when you haven't played a game yet or you have just glanced a minute of it played in a shop or at a friend's.

Metacritic is a nice starting point to get informed and read a few reviews when deciding if investing your brows' sweat into a game is worth it :) Too bad the state of gaming journalism is still so pitiful.

 

To me,reviews don't mean much at all.

If I see a game i'm interested in,I don't think some random person's review or opinion of game should have any affect on whether or not I'm going to play it.I like to decide if the game I played was worth it or not.

However,I could understand people using it as a guide to decide whether or not to invest their time into a game.Still,this should'nt be brought up in an argument over a game's quality.