Metacritic is often touted as a good measuring stick when comparing games and consoles but if you do that have you actually looked at the review sites.
Example number 1 why is terrible Gaming Age Scores are included, why is that bad? Because they have given out over 180 perfect scores and they don't use a 5 point scale either. If that wasnt bad enough they are actually 4 points below the Meta average. Why because stuff like Just dance gets a 0. Siren has a Meta avg of 72 and they gave it a 16. Over half the review they talked about stuff they liked. I am sorry but a game you give a 16 should have ZERO fucking redeeming qualities.
Another Gameshark using a 100 point scale they gave out over 150 perfect scores. WTF! 10% of their reviews got a perfect score.
These are just a few examples and there are many more? Should metacritic be used as much as it is by developers to gauge a games quality? I say no what about you?
