| Catlana said: Metacritic represents a variety of opinions. To be honest as more opinions come in, the value tends to get closer to the average value placed on a game by the gaming community. People will get upset when their game of choice is lower rated than another one that is simply human nature. Metacritic is not perfect but Metacritic is the closest thing to the average value from the gaming community. |
Exactly.
There will always be people who like a lower rated more than a 90+ game, but contrary to that you'll find much more people liking that certain 90+ game more than the lower rated game.
Many Metacritic naysayers don't understand the meaning of the numbers. The scores are not 100% correct, but they give a very good hint at the games quality and how many people with a couple of years of gaming experience would like it.
If you're for example not a fan of racers you most likely won't even like the highest rated racing game, but that's not the point, because your subjective feeling of racers completely destroys your objective rating.
The average Joe on the other hand would certainly like the game and a fan of the racing genre even more.
Also reviewers aren't 100% right on everything, so there does exist a margin of error, however the more reviews you get the more reliable is the average score.
