Khuutra said:
Conegamer said:
Khuutra said:
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.
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Don't forget about some strange conversion ratings (B+ is 84, 4/5 is 80 etc.)
The weighting is good for the most part, however.
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Why, pray tell?
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Because it stops completely bias reviews from the smaller sites (like the AV Club Uncharted review) and insanely high reviews from smaller sites who are inexperienced in reviewing from skewing the score too much. On the other hand, reviews from sites like ONM, Edge, IGN, Destructoid etc. who do a lot more reviews, have a lot more respect and often get a lot nearer to the actual metascore of the game (on the actual quality) get a higher preference.
It's a strange system and one I'm uncomforable with, but I see why they do it.
