Why a game with a lower review score could be better

[sales2099]

pokoko said:

sales2099 said:

pokoko said:

Metacritic is kind of crap. I feel kind of bad for anyone who takes it as gospel.

Just think about how ridiculous it really is: you're taking bad reviews from bad web sites, reviews from sites that use completely different grading methods and scales, reviews from writers that have different tastes and preferences than you, then you're combining them with reviewers that you actually like and respect, and you're giving them all the same exact weight.

Why would anyone really care about that?

"Well, this one writer I like gave it an 8/10 but this other guy I don't know who writes for a site I've never heard of gave it a 4/10--Ohmygod, it only has a 6/10 average?  What the hell!  I can't play this junk!"

Um.....Metacritic is pretty clear that they give weighted averages. Like a Gamespot/IGN/Game Informer review is worth more then a few reviews from a smaller, lesser known source.

It isn't perfect, but it is actually the best system have have. Trusting one review over 4 dozen.......hmm what to pick.

What does need changing is peoples perceptions of games in the 70's. I personally think 70's games are just as worthy of ones attention, but we seem obsessed with 80+ games. Anything below 70 I think we can safely say that the game has enough faults that can really detract from its strengths

So what?  You think IGN is automatically better than anywhere else just because it's big?  

......no. It's big because they built up a solid foundation on their delievery of content, as well as *mostly* delievering comphrehensive and reliable reviews. Offcourse many would disagree when their one perosnal favourite game gets a lower score then they wanted, but that is another matter.

I said before, the system ain't perfect, but its the closest anybody can get to seeing what every reviewer on the internet thinks at once.

But let us be honest, we all tend to fall into the same predictable pattern.....we praise metacritic for when our favourite games score amazing, and lament it for when it doesn't. We have to clean up own own personal broken standards before we criticize metacritics.