| Boutros said: I don't really like the way gamerankings aggretates reviews. Metacritic stops adding reviews for a game after a certain period whilst gamerankings keeps on adding them. I find Metacritic's way more accurate as it gives a better idea of how the game was received when it came out. For example someone gave the game 6/10 in 2009 and it was added on gamerankings but not on metacritic. I don't think someone from 2009 can judge the game as accurately. |
That's fair, I suppose, but you also have to consider that gamerankings is presenting the actual mean average value of the reviews, whereas Metacritic gives a higher weight to some reviewers as compared to others. No one knows which reviewers get more weight versus less, or how big that influence is.
I don't care about review aggregates much, but if I had to choose one it would be gamerankings, if only because they present a more accurate snapshot of the average review.
