Review Inflation

[forest-spirit]

r505Matt said:

forest-spirit said:
It's because of the many flaws (imo) in the scoring system that I simply can't trust scores and the only good information I get is from reading the review. Drop the scores and force people to actually read the reviews (yes, I'm that evil...)

Other people are saying this too, and it's not that I disagree, but I don't agree either. Unfortunately, to rely on a critic's score, you need to know the critic well. Observe how he/she rates other games. Just looking at a number will not help at all.

Metacritic stuff is just awful, don't even look at that.

My suggestion, find a few critics you trust, and really observe/analyze how they rate, what they think of as good or bad in a game. Some things will be small quirky things, but maybe you have the same small quirky likes/dislikes.

I agree with that suggestion.