Requirements for game to be considered AAA

[Dodece]

@DragonLord

Metacritic gives Madden NFL 08 for the 360 a score of 85%. Thats just a prime example of why you have to have a stringent system. The more nebulous you make the definition the more unsightly games sneak in. The interesting thing about a score average over 90% is the fact that it permits no dissent what so ever. The majority of the scores for the game must be 90% or above, and there can't be any low scores even if they are tiny voices in the wind.

While I appreciate the accolades you thrust upon your fellow players. Deep down you have to know your playing with millions of brain dead fools. No I am not talking about every gamer, but there is a silent legion that buy certain games for the most asinine of reasons. We see it every time we look at the charts.

Take Mario Party 8 for an example. Metacritic has it pegged at 62%. Yet we know the title has sold 4.5 million copies. Should I believe a slew of professional reviews that it is a bad game, or take the word of 4.5 million fellow gamers. They can't both be right, but I am reasonably sure there might be ten million idiot gamers out there. Never underestimate stupidity on a massive scale, or when it is entrenched inside of a mob mentality.

No the people don't know what they necessarily want, and more to the point they wouldn't know quality if it slid up their nose and laid eggs in their face. Watch late night infomercials, and realize with a dull ache in your heart that the reason they are in is that they are actually selling products to people. Thats right there are people who need knives so they can cut up their old shoes, and think they can replace a barber with a box.

The only bright side is the fact that there is a sizable population of intelligent gamers that diligently buy wonderfully made games, because they are wonderfully made.