Conegamer said:
Sadly true, actually. Pretty much every game I've seen has Gamekult at the bottom. I mean, do they even give out 10/10 anymore? EDIT- Answered my own question. Have a look here: http://www.metacritic.com/publication/gamekult?filter=games 4% higher than metascore 1% same 95% lower Normally end up being 14.7 points lower than average review score. Average score- 58
And what's the point of using a 10 point scale if you've NEVER given a 10? And only 4 9's? (Red Dead Redemption, Galaxy 2, OoT 3D, Wings Of Liberty), and miles below the metascore? (Portal 2- 70%)
These guys should be kicked off Metacritic. I say add VGC! |
Perhaps they use a more sensible scale that has 5 as an average game instead of ridiculously using 75%.
Theirin is the problem with Metacritic and gamerankings, there are all kind of different scoring systems melded into a single score that therefore no longer makes sense. a decent chunk of game reviewers admitedly use a similar 100 point scale, even if such a varied scale is ridiculous except for 1 person to compare games against others (lets say IGN had 1 reviewer give MW2 a 9.1, then a different guy did MW3 and gave it a 8.8.... GameInformer also have 2 different guys reviewing MW2 and 3, giving them a 9.0 and 9.5 respectively. This pretty much makes comparing any of the reviews scores against each other meaningless)
If publications always used only 1 reviewer for everything (or 1 per platform or 1 per genre) THEN the 100 point scale would be fine, as they don't... a 5 or 10 point scale (that means integers only... no 9.5s) would be far better.
Either way metacritic is ridiculous without at least the vast majority of publications using a similar scale.
