| Parokki said: GameRankings and MetaCritic will probably do the same they did with Galaxy, and ignore every review of under 90 as trolling. Probably a good idea. =/ |
Site Inclusion Policy
Q. What does it take to get a site included in the composite score of Game Rankings?
A. This is the most commonly asked question. The things we look for when adding a new site are:
Q. Why don't you just use every review you can find in the composite score?
A. Consistency. Sites scores must effect all titles equally. Let's say a source always gives high scores and it's lowest score ever was an 80%. It would be fine if that site reviewed every game, or at least a good number of games, and affected them all by raising their scores. Then when you compare two games, they would both have been affected. However, if it is from a site or magazine that either, we could only get a few reviews from, or only did a few reviews, then it would raise a small number of games causing their scores to be skewed.
The METASCORE is considered a weighted average because we assign more significance, or weight, to some critics and publications than we do to others, based on the overall stature and quality of those critics and publications. In addition, for music and movies, we also normalize the resulting scores (akin to "grading on a curve" in college), which prevents scores from clumping together
They use the exact same rules for all games across all platforms ... Realistically, the reason that these excluded sites were giving games like Super Mario Galaxy a low score was because they're small and they benefit from the traffic a low review score will provide.
