twesterm on 21 September 2009
| kerrak said: My comment is not about Halo but about Edge. I know reviews are opinions. Anyway, for those that think they are valid reviewers here are some numbers: Exclusive full retail games on both ps3 and x360 amongst 100 best metacritic scores. Both consoles have 12 exclusives. I will compare Metacritic average score with Edge score. Games "favoured" by Edge (Edge > Metacritic by more than 5%): 360 3: Halo3, PGR3, HaloODST PS3 1: LitlleBigPlanet Games where Edge gives roughly the same score as Meta (-5%/+5% deviations) PS3 2 : Motorstorm , Singstar 360 6 : PGR3, L4D, FableII, FM2, GeOW2, Crackdown Games downscored by Edge (-15% to -5% of Metacritic score) PS3 4 : Uncharted, R&C ToD, Motorstorm PR, MGS4 360 2 : TomClancy GRAW, GeOW Games trashed by Edge (-25% to -15% of Metacritic score) PS3 4 : Infamous, Valkyria Chronicles, Resistance, Killzone 2 360 1 : Mass Effect Games despised by Edge (-35% to -25% of Metacritic score) PS3 1 : Resistance 2 360 0 Adding all % differences to Metacritic, Ps3 gets -157%, 360 gets -33%, so on average PS3 gets -13,1% while 360 gets -2,7%. Not only this, if you take a close look at what were the specific games downscored things are even more biased, as some ps3 platform defining heavy hitters are treated the worst. For you as a gamer to take their word as an independent/unbiased magazine. |
I'm curious, what would happen if you did the same thing to Eurogamer? I actually asked someone about Edge and from what I gather they're tough on games just like Eurogamer is.
I imagine that big difference is due to a mixture of two things:
- they're tough on games
- opinions are opinions are opinions.
and if you did the same thing with Eurogamer you would probably see something pretty close just because they are so much harder and don't always base games solely on hype.
