| Jereel Hunter said: How does that matter? For every site that gives too many games good reviews, there's another site that rates games too harshly. The idea of a composite reveiw site is that these outliers shouldn't effect the overall score too much. Or at the very least, should influence almost every game equally. |
This is true iff there is a sufficient number of reviews for a game to reach the limit for what the games score should be. Since some games have as low as 5 that would instantly throw it out. Hell at 20 you could still easily have it swayed too far to one side or another. Metarankings would have to include far, far more sites than they currently do in order to achieve the critical number of reviews for every game.
The fact that they reject so many review sites cuts this argument out at the knees though. They attempt to weed out overly high and low scores completely which will always have mixed results.
