A better system than Metacritic? Halo 4 really at 90.9%

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Veknoid_Outcast said:
I appreciate the sentiment here, I really do, but I don't think this is the answer. Aggregate scoring sites like Metacritic will never be perfect, but I think limiting input to only the biggest and most read review sites would be a mistake.

My suggestion has always been to find two or three reviewers you trust, and follow their reviews. Odds are they will recommend games you'll like.

In any event, Metacritic has become something of a monster. When publishers started linking developer bonuses to Metacritic scores, things went sideways fast.

Pretty much this.  Metacritic is for people too busy to read individuals reviews and just want a general idea of the quality of a game, or for people looking for bragging rights because their system's game scored 0.43% more than the one on the other system.

The only other reasonable approach, as has already been suggested, would be to discard a number of the lowest and highest scores and then calculate the average.In the end though I don't think it's really worth it and you'd be better off finding some reviewers/websites whose tastes fall in line with your own. 

I learnt, long ago, not to lose any sleep over Metacritic or Gamerankings scores as they are often, for my mind, significantly off the mark.