Ryse scoring well with the consumer

[BMaker11]

roborad 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.

Lol...metacritic is even more abused than amazon's system.  

All you have to do is a simple google/bing search to realize that metacritic user reviews has been known for it's ludicrous number of issues.  

At least in Amazon, you get some sense of reviews that have been posted by people who have actually purchased the game and have given their feedback over it (verified buyer reviews).  

Not all of reviews are from verified buyers. I just counted and of the 66 5-star reviews on Amazon, only 31 are verified purchases. So less than 50% are confirmed to have actually bought the game and gave it a 5-star review. Going by what Kirby007 said, I can just as easily say the other 35 reviews are from people who want to hype the game. 

And you admit that, while less so than Metacritic, Amazon is an abused sysem. So there's just as much validity in saying many of the reviews are just hyping the game as there is saying that the Metacritic reviews are just trolling