| gekkokamen said: ^I don't see them including many asian reviews (Japan sites, magazines especially) , now do they? Oh, and many times games have differences depending on the region version. Let's say an australian version of a game got censored and ruined the experience hence it gets a lower score compared to the NA version. I doubt stuff like that it's reflected on Metacritic, but it affects the metascore anyway. |
I don't know what the policies are at metacritic, but I'm fairly sure you have to apply to have your reviews put on the site. Seeing as it's written in english, I doubt many non-english speaking asian countries will know or care about the site, when they can't even decipher what our letters mean, and so they don't apply for inclusion.
And using the lack of japanese/asian reviews to say that all other reviews not written in english should not be included is just wrong. Exclude all or exclude non? Except no one is being excluded...
And the case with L4D2, where the australian version is actually worse than what the rest of the world gets, is pretty rare.
