Sorcerys Meta doesnt look good

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I think meta ratings have been a genuine blessing for forums such as these. They basically remove a lot of baseless bias bullshit, because it is the ultimate arbiter. It totally defeats member manipulation to suit their own purposes. Which is what always happened in previous generations. Where the focus was moved onto the reviewer in question rather then the game itself. Now we have one accepted score, and you may disagree with that score, but you know what. You can't claim this reviewer sucks, or that reviewer was bribed, or this reviewer has an agenda. Basically Meta scoring means you can't pull half the underhanded sleigh of hand bullshit that you could in previous generations.

Speaking to using these services, and they are services, and not just numbers. They are a great place to get a even better feel of a game beyond trusting one or even a few reviewers. I personally read the highest review score, the lowest review score, and a couple scores in the middle. That gives me a lot of different inputs on a game. Which I might not get otherwise if I trusted sources that may be in line with one another.

A great example was a game I bought used Rise of the Argonauts which scored about sixty percent. Had I gone off of one or two reviewers. I might still have gotten the same score, but what I might not have gotten was a true feel for the game itself. Basically it is a Knights of the Old Republic clone that was somewhat dated by what are today's standards. That said it feels like a modest improvement overall, and seeing as I still play the Old Republic from time to time. I just didn't find the issues to be big for me as a player. So when I did pick it up I have a fairly good idea of the game, and you know else I had a lot of fun playing it. Hell Bioware could learn a lot from the staff that made this game. In many ways the dialogue, and leveling systems in this game were better then gasp dare I say it Mass Effect. Perhaps they weren't fully realized, but there were some really great ideas here.

Anyway stop ragging on the service, and learn how to use the service. It can help out a lot when making choices. I think it would have been a shame if I missed out on the above game, because I didn't get enough input to suss out what the game was really like. It is one of those hidden gems that gets blasted for having flaws, but when you get down to it those flaws only matter if your looking for a different kind of game.