Halo 4 gets a 20/100 on Meta, proves eview system is broken.

[kain_kusanagi]

GameOver22 said:

kain_kusanagi said:

I totaly see where you are coming from. I have a love of niche games as well and I also don't expect the reviews of those games to be as high as I would score them. However, I still believe that a game like Halo 4 that gets an average of 92.7 from the top review websites can't possible get a 20/100 from a legitimate reviewer. It can't be both total broken shit and one of the best games of the year. Since the top websites agree that it's very good, the ones calling it total shit are suspect.

I mostly agree with that. I just think there's going to be some variation about the mean. Some reviewers are going to be stricter, others are going to use different grading scales. If you read the review, it doesn't seem the guy is saying its a broken game. His main criticism seems to be that the game isn't innovating. I mentioned before too, in terms of how other sites grade, his score is probably closer to the 40-60 range....still low but not as low. If you want the truth, I personally don't think the body of the review is that bad, outside of one paragraph. The score seems a bit harsh though.

The impression I got for that review was that he wanted Halo to be something else. He doens't like Halo so the only way he'd grade it high would be for it to have been fundimentaly changed into something else. As a person he is entitled to that opinion. As a reviewer he should have known he couldn't objectivly give it a score reflective of it's merits because he doesn't like those merits. But merits they are.