Metacritic: mass effect 2 (xbox 360) vs mass effect 2 (pc)

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The truth is, only 36 people have reviews the PC version, compared to 81 for the 360. The people giving the scores didn't play the PC version to give it the 100(or 0) they otherwise might have given it. It should not be spun as a point of pride for PC gamers when they have less people reviewing their games. If taken as a sign of anything, it certainly shoudn't be taken as a positive sign on the state of average PC library quality as it is being spun here, and dare-I-say-it, the anecdotal PC library quality guestimation crowd can ill-afford to thumb its nose at a game as good as Mass Effect 2, nor could any console, for that matter...

A few of you make no sense to me because:

A. The game having better or worse graphics depends entirely upon the PC from which you play it.

B. Tons PC reviewers DID give this game a 10/10. That doesn't seem very strict at all.

C. Being a harsher reviewer and having higher standards are not the same thing.

Here are a few statments.

I'm not saying the PC version isn't a superior game, assuming it is being played on superior hardware, but the game is basically the same, hardware differences aside. The largest differences I assume would be graphics, UI, DRM protection of some kind, installation times, and non-uniform hardware enduced crashed or glitches, since there were no mods pre-release, and you can't review what isn't there. Assuming reviewers have modern gaming rigs, most would probably give the graphical comparison to the PC.

The same thing happens a lot of times with the PS3 vs 360 versions of a game. The reason usually is there are a lot of sites that don't review the PS3 version of a game, but give the 360 version a 10/10. In a lot of cases, we see this happening, but we never credit it to a plan or a scheme by reviewers.

You see, reviewers might be smart, but they aren't smart enough to communicate a conspiracy theory of generally low reviews, and they don't all conform to your preconceptions of "very pickey snobbish gamers."

Make of that what you will.