Seece said:
Kenryoku_Maxis said:
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. |
Its not about getting mad that a game has a lower rating. Its about trying to use opinions as facts. In this case, as you said, Metacritic is a guage of a grouping of opinions. How is that any basis of guaging if a game is 'AAA' quality? As someone else said, an AAA game can be stated as the games where a company put their most time and money into. So let's take the example of New Super Mario Bros Wii. It wasn't panned by Critics, but just because it doesn't have a 90 avg on metacritic, its now not an AAA game? Yet it was clearly one of, if not the top offering from Nintendo in 2009 and hardly anyone will dispute a top quality game with AAA written all over it.
Long story short, opinions, even that of 'critics', shouldn't guage what makes a game 'the best'. Or in this case, 'AAA' status. It goes right back to what I was trying to say about 'AAA' status just being a major grey area.
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Well, it is, and it's something you need to get over because it isn't going anywhere.
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Somebody get out the stone and chisel. We got a new word of law here!
