Do you feel some games are rated better because of the franchise name?

[Veknoid_Outcast]

Teeqoz said:

Veknoid_Outcast said:
It's a fair question. There may be some people who award a game an inflated score, consciously or not, based on its pedigree. However, there may also be some people who award that same game an artificially lower grade because of unrealistic expectations of the franchise.

Reach is an interesting case. I do think some of the praise was over-the-top, but the median score it fairly accurate. With Reach, I think the number of critics celebrating its story -- and by extension its place in the Halo universe -- was offset by the number of critics who judged it against the series' earlier, superior games. In other words, I think there was a decent number of reviewers who would have awarded Reach a higher score had it been a new IP without a decade a baggage attached to it.

do you mean median or the average score? I hardly ever see anyone using the median, always nice to see someone who knows their statistics terms lol.

I meant median, but the average is fine too. I just used median to represent the basic central point of Reach's scores, which is 91 or 92.

That's probably the most I've talked about statistics since college :P