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This thread comes up for every big game that gets early top review, and every time we point out that the "not as good" reviews always come out weeks later and drag it down. There's just too many more review sources for all of them to agree on a high score these days, and reviewers are in general more critical on top of that.

OoT's score is based off of 22 reviews. Bioshock currently has 75 reviews. Statistically speaking top metacritic scores are a whole lot harder to get these days.