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slowmo on 18 April 2012
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pezus said:
slowmo said:
pezus said:
Millenium said:
pezus said:
*Waits for Edge to give it a 9/10 despite giving the PC version 6/10*



Why would EDGE do that? Are they usually partial?

OT: A PS3 port done by the developer themselves is unlikely, I don't think they have the man power next to their other projects.

I expect the final metacritic to be between 90 and 94

They tend to rate 360 games higher than PS3 games (when compared to avg. scores), not sure about their PC history.

People see what they want to in scores, unless you can provide adequate proof of such a claim along with valid reasons for why they were incorrect in their reviews and hence have some bias you shouldn't make such claims imo.

I'll probably put this on my Christmas list as I've got too many games to play at the moment to consider it for now.

 

*Edited from my original far too grumpy response* - Note to self to not post late at night.

A while back somebody did a comparison and Edge rated 360 exclusives higher than PS3 ones on average (when taking the metacritic scores into account).

Edit: Found it! - http://edgevsmeta.blogspot.com/

"The consistency of the score differences is remarkable. Whether comparing the top 10,20 or 30 games, the 360 is always scored higher by EDGE, followed by multiplatforms, and followed by PS3 exclusives in the last place. The lines are relatively straight and flat, with no lines crossing each other or switching places after the top 10. If EDGE really scored games irrespective of their platforms, we'd have expected the three lines to cross each other and be all over the place, but this is not the case. There is a strong pattern of discrimination for 360 exclusives and against PS3 exclusives."


So in summary the big complaint is that 360 exclusives seem to be reviewed with higher scores than PS3 exclusives?  Has that been checked again since the large number of Kinect exclusives as I doubt it would be quite as heavily weighted now.  The simple fact is by and large most Microsoft exclusives have been very very good and the PS3 may have the same number of good exclusives but they have released far more that fall into the utter tosh bracket this gen too like for example Lair.  This isn't a knock against Sony, many people prefer a large variety of genres and games and choose to make their own mind up.  Oh well, I guess if it's such an issue PS3 owners should just ignore them, it's not like one score has a huge effect on anyone's enkoyment or the metacritic average.