Why is the Review System Broken?

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richardhutnik said:

Xxain said:
I say this time and time again: Metcritic and Reviewers need to disappear because ppl dont understand wat they mean and how to use...especially this gen where these numbers control ppl like sheep...somebody tell me difference between a 8.9 and 9( remember 9 up means AAA)..ppl cant make decisions for themselves

Game executives have now pushed into that area in regards to games, needing to have a game get high ratings on Metacritic to be able to get more sales.  Metacritic and so on are like Rotten Tomatoes.  Metacritic is more selective in who it lists though, as opposed to Gamerankings.

Rather than abolish these, one may want to come up with a quality review site that reviews the reviewers, and list the best review of a bunch read for different games.

You may already know this but this is how a proper medical/scientific metareview occurs. They sit down with all the papers/reviews on a particular topic and then a panel critically score the papers according to methods, standards, bias etc and then only the best ones that have adhered to the highest standards get included in the meta analysis.

I have my doubts whether many of the major game publications out there would survive such scrutiny.