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Seece, have you played any Wii games? You said earlier you'd have to play a few Wii games to determine whether there's bias in reviews or not. I'm just wondering, does that mean you've barely played any Wii games, or you've never played any Wii games? And I'm not asking to go "OH SNAP IN YOUR FACE!" if you say you haven't played any.

And I'm not opposed to the idea of metacritic. My problem is THIS:

We are at a transitional period in the history of video games. All of a sudden, out of thin air, a bunch of crazy new stuff happened. Everything changed except for the critics. The critics aren't really ready to criticize all this new stuff, and many of them are just picking teams, and deciding to hate the new and love the old. This happens with every drastic change in technology or style in every art medium. (Many film critics and even filmmakers actually HATED the addition of sound to films, if you can believe that. It completely changed the way people acted and directed and edited. No longer would a close-up of a subtle facial expression show you how somebody felt! They'd just tell you how they felt with some stupid words!)

So after all the dust settles, the Wii is going to be the most successful video game system of all time, with the most million sellers (and 10 million sellers and 15 million sellers, holy hell), and yet the most critically-hated game library of all time. People on the internet will go "see, I told you the Wii sucked, it has the least 90+ games!" but they will only be referring to the averages of review scores of people who had NO critical backgrounds, and who threw their professionalism aside to bash the new things they didn't like.

TL;DR version:

How often does your favorite movie of any given year win the Academy Award for Best Picture? If your favorite movie doesn't win, do you change your opinion to match those of the critics because their opinion is somehow more important than yours?