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BMaker11 on 27 November 2013
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kirby007 said:
BMaker11 said:
This game has a 5.3 user score on Metacritic, based on 457 user reviews.

I, along with others, realize that in some places, the user reviews are higher for this game because people need to justify dropping $500 on a console. But you're gonna need to do that for a game that has a larger sampling of people singing its praises.

As it stands, I'd take the Metacritic user reviews more seriously than Amazon by virtue of there being more reviews, therefore being, statistically speaking, more accurate. Seems like the users do disagree with the pro reviewers. Just not in the direction selnor wants us to believe it is.

you realise 50% of those reviews is written by haters who dont even have it.

for example the majority of the written reviews is positive. not this guy tho:

masonwallace42
Nov 23, 2013
1
so i've bought both new systems. people gave Knack a bunch of crap, but I'd rather play that than ryse. ryse, despite being good to look at, is ridiculous.
he gave knack a 10
75% of the reviews is anonimous rating which tells me some sony trolls had some spare time

And you don't think the opposite is possible on Amazon, where people say that Ryse is so awesome and it's just so they can feel good about their purchase?

Since there's no way to confirm anything, I have just as much backing a statement such as "you realize 50% of Amazon reviews are just by Xbox fans with confirmation bias".

All I'm saying is that if we're going to go by user reviews, use a set of reviews with the largest sample size so the results can be more accurate. And if you want to say anonymous ratings are just trolling, you need to do it across the board and ignore the positive reviews as well (can't just discount the negative reviews. That's biased). But then, that would eliminate all reviews because you can't tell if it's trolling to put negative reviews or fanboyism to put positive reviews. 

And that would leave the professional reviews. And in Ryse's case, the game is less than mediocre