weaveworld said:
Barozi said:
weaveworld said:
Barozi said:
weaveworld said:
chingrin said:
it's getting a 77/100 from metacritic "critics" but it's getting an 8.4/10 from the actual players. match that with mass effect 2 which is gettinga 96/100 from the "critics" and a 9.0/10 from the users. it seems that maybe listening to "critics" isn't all it's cracked up to be |
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But critics play ALL games extensively while those user scores are made up of:
A) Fanboys
B) Guys who played the game for 5 minutes at a friends house
C) Fans who were hyped for the game and bought it at launch (and in MAGs case already played the Beta before) so they already knew they'd like it.
Last but not least it's not possible to give an exact score for user scores at Metacritic.
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Eh... not all critics play all games extensively, or can you prove that point...?
yeah it's their job and they play it for several hours. This alone is easily better than case B)
My taste is more comparable to other users taste then some critics taste or opinion. It's all about what the gamer likes whether critics give a game a 6 or a 10. You can use an 'official review' as a guideline... not as a standard.
And where in my post do I disagree with that ? I just take an opinion from a professional reviewer more serious than from some random internet dude, who could be a fanboy, someone without any gaming knowledge or some guy who justfies his opinion by talking about screenshots or trailers.
And certainly do not go by just some average number... i for one tend to READ users reviews to make up my mind.
Well you QFT'd him and he's only talking about average scores except for the last sentence. How the hell should I know that you don't care abour averages ?
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eh first highlighted wasn't an attack on anything you said... just my cup of tea
second part dito.
Actually he doesn't say a thing about average scores, all he says is that maybe critics reviews aren't all that... (or something like that)
And indeed users reviews aren't all that either, if you know what to look for they can be useful though. But like i said, just don't go by the numbers...
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He compares the average user score for MAG with the average critics score for MAG and then he does the same with Mass Effect 2 and basically concludes that MAG and Mass Effect 2 are according to users opinions on the same level.
So he tries to prove that the average score of users is more reliable than the average score of reviewers.
Which is quite interesting, because I've heard more "negative" opinions of MAG here on VGC than of Mass Effect 2....
