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mornelithe on 24 October 2014
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LudicrousSpeed said:
Mr Puggsly said:
Ninsect said:

Especially when that "mediocre" racer is rated higher than Forza 5, which he calls "great". A bit hypocritical.

I still say NFS is medicore regardless how it scored. I'd take Forza 5 or Driveclub over NFS:Rivals.

Forza 5 took criticism primarily for having less content than previous games. GT6 got criticized for being GT5.5. Driveclub is being criticized for just being mediocre.

Not to mention, Need for Speed only outscored Forza 5 on the PS4, where it had no competition. On Xbox One, Forza 5 scored a 79 and NFS scored like a 74 or 75. So there's no hypocrisy there.

Not to mention it's different genres of racing. NFS Rivals is an arcade racer, Forza 5 is sim. That's like saying if an NBA Jam game outscores NBA2k, then Jam must be a better basketball game.

Or like Destiny's meta being 1 pt higher on the XB1 than PS4.  You're right, no hypocrisy at all.  Joking aside, it's actually to do with how metacritic works (or how it elects not to), when you have a more popular machine, it usually gets the vast majority of reviews.  In the case of NFS, it's lowest score (50) is on the PS4 and it's highest (100) also on the PS4, but because there are 53 reviews on the PS4 versus 18 for the One, it messes the whole thing up.  It's strange though, because the Giant Bomb review (60) shows on both...no idea why, unless GB reviewed on both machines.