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Zekkyou on 28 October 2014
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Veknoid_Outcast said:

Is this a joke thread? I thought at first it was, but now I'm not so sure.

If it is a joke thread, disregard the following question:

Is it your contention that Metacritic scores are objective indicators of quality? In other words, a game with a Metacritic score of 90 is, by definition, better than a game with a Metacritic score of 89? And that a game with a score of 70, however popular and beloved, is a poor game? Are you saying, in the end, that our own personal evaluations of individual games are immaterial, and, by extension, all the debates on this forum are pointless?

Or are you just messing with us?

P.S. Velocity 2X isn't a new IP.

Metacritic is a poor way of directly measuring the quality of titles, and even worse for comparing them (especially when from different genres), but it's a pretty good method of objectively comparing the probable quality of something, especially on larger scales. Even with metacritic's fairly limited sample size, a game with a 70 meta can have multiple 9+ scores.

The 70 should be looked at as the most probable score that a generalize mainstream personality is likely to give it (within a certain degree), rather than an outright measure of quality (the latter being what most unfortunately use it for). To that extent, it's a useful way of objectively comparing two libraries, (though niche titles are always problematic, regardless of scale).

It's utterly useless on a person by person basis though. Generalized probabilities doesn't mean much when you add preference to the mix lol.

Anyway, the way the OP has done the list makes proper quality comparison pointless (for completely different reasons), but i think he's trying to demonstrate quantity. There are other issues with that, but a lot less than with the former.