VGchartz's Demon's Souls thread

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ocnkng said:

epicurean said:

ocnkng said:
News reviews in
Gamespot: http://www.gamespot.com/ps3/rpg/demonssoul/review.html

Edge :P http://www.edge-online.com/magazine/review-demons-souls

There are so many 90/90+ reviews but don't realize why metacritic still has it at 89.

Statisticlly, 3/4th of the reviews are 90 or better, but the one 60 drags the average so far down.  It's the "flaw" within a metascore...

But even then if you add up all the scores and divide them by the total number of reviews, the average comes to about 90 - 93.

However I fail to understand why Metacritic is keeping the score at 89.

And since their algorithm is secret and proprietary, it just sucks.

Not all reviews actually count towards the average. 

Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but to them, reviews come in their teirs:

• tier 3 -- don't fucking matter.  These are from new sites that are still establishing themselves and random blogs and they just don't getp osted.,
• tier 2 -- posted, but not counted.  These are from the bigger sites so they get posted but aren't actually popular enough for them to go into the average score.
• tier 1 -- posted and counted.  These are from the bigger sites that constantly post so many reviews per month.

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