Can someone expalin to me how Game Rankings is credible?

[Kasz216]

fkusumot said:

ssj12 said:

tarheel91 said:
This thread makes no sense. Since when have averages ever been less credible than a single portion of it. Averages take many different opinions and find the average response to something. It's much, much more likely to be representative of the entire gaming community's opinion of a game than one site.

so including Nintendo Power, TeamXbox, and PSXtreme, gameTM, makes the scores oh so credible. If there wasn't competely obviously biased sites like these and many more they average in I would say yes they are hold water but with them included they shouldn't hold a grain of salt.

 Are you kidding? Nintendo Power is biased compared to IGN? I think this is bullshit until you come up with some numbers.

IGN rates Wii games .9% lower then the average on Gamerankings.

Nintendo power rates Wii games 2.8% higher then the average on Gamerankings.

Most likely they pad a bunch of the "middle" games, either that or are just unlikely to give bad games low scores like 2's.

That's where Gamerankings holds it's value to me.  You can see how the site rates games compared to other sites.

Still like Metacritic better though, because it gives you actual summaries, and links to every review that's online... so you have dozens of reviews at your fingertips... that you can actually read instead of just trusting some fairly arbitrary numbers.