| starcraft said: Very well. We have (for better or worse) an established gaming media. There is almost nothing in the world that can be quantified as better than anything else except through popular opinion. And you can bring up all sorts of completely unrelated similes such as the one-time popular belief that the world was flat, we are talking about video games here. The popular opinion of the gaming media has established that there is currently a set number of "brilliant" games out there on each platform. This of course does not preclude there being a large number of "good" and "great" games on those platforms. There is. And the gaming media has highlighted them as well. Of course people such as yourself, and indeed myself, would be of the opinion that there are "AAA" games that have missed out on such a 90% designation. But our opinions in those cases would not be in the tangible majority. |
I really hate this whole "AAA" talk about games, especially as AAA is a term used by developers to describe a games production values as opposed to its eventually quality. Sure metacritic is a great guide when it comes to getting an good overview of a games quality but it should never be taken as any sort of absolute quantifiable benchmark (which you seem to agree with in your last paragraph). As I pointed out in an earlier post there are 3 games which despite being widely regarded as identical on both platforms still scored differently, most likely due to differing reviews by the respective consoles exclusive magazines. If Dead Space had scored 90/89 on the 360/PS3 as opposed to 89/88 I don't see how that could make it an AAA game on the 360 yet the identical PS3 game wouldn't be.
Another problem is that a lot of 360 XBLA games or DLC are given 90+ but I don't see how they are more benefical to the 360 than full games such as VC, Uncharted, Infamous ect simply because they score slightly higher when being reviewed under different conditions.
Also, the idea that it was once popular belief that the Earth was round is just a myth 
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EDIT: Nothing personal against your views as I appreciate you're only saying that metacritic is the 'best' guide to a games quality which I largely agree with.
