IllegalPaladin said:
sapphi_snake said:
Reasonable said:
Andysw said:
I just looked at the metacritic scores for the xbox 360 and pc versions of mass effect 2. To my suprise, the pc version scores a 94 vs a 96 for the xbox 360 version.
I don't get this. You have two identical versions of the same game, and yet one version scores higher than the other. Can someone explain?
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This happans a lot - look at Halo PC vs Xbox for example. The fact is PC reviewers will be reviewing vs PC titles as well as PC historic titles. For example if you've played a while on PC Bioshock wasn't an amazing leap forward but the latest incarnation of a game like System Shock.
As such it's not uncommon for titles to be seen as less amazing on PC. The fact the scores are so close, and high, shows that on both systems the title is very good. As a PC gamer myself I often mind myself less impressed than console specific gamers with many titles due to this. ME2 is really good though.
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Hmm... You are aware that Halo came out on PC 2 years after it released on the Xbox right? For a port of a 2 year old game that had to compete with more recent games I'd say Halo PC scored beter than most ports would under those circumstances. If you want to give good examples use games that are released simultaneously on both PC and consoles (like say... Modern Warfare 2).
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I know that you're talking about scores so maybe what I'm saying does or does not apply. I just want to say it as I own Halo PC and it isn't that good.
The Halo port was still a rather poor port regardless of when it came out. Also as the post you were quoting said, Halo PC wasn't alone on the PC like it was on the Xbox. It was also going up against big guns like Counter-Strike, Half-Life, ect. Heck, System Shock 2 came out in 1999.
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I believe I can near enough guarantee you that had Halo released on PC right way it would have scored pretty well but not as well as it scored on Xbox. On Xbox it was a revolution. On PC it would have been another very good FPS with some new features. That's the point I'm making.
Also, as naznatips points out, quite correctly, console games get the advantage of a few almost guaranteed great reviews from the official mags that always skew a premium console titles scores upwards a little.
