| noname2200 said: -snip- So what does metacritic tell us? It tells us what the critics selected by metacritic think, as weighed by metacritic's opinion of the worth of those reviews. Nothing more, nothing less. If it got rid of the weighing system, it might actually tell us something about what professional game critics think, depending on how you define that term and how generous you want to be with your confidence level and interval. But then this thread was never supposed to be about what "critics" thought, was it? -snnip- |
In regards to this specific part, it's worth noting that metacritic are fairly light in their weighting, and most of it revolves around the popularity of the sites in question (which is a reasonable method of doing so). For example, Bayonetta 2 has an actual score of 90, while the game itself is sitting at 91. Sunset Overdrive is sitting at 83, with a meta of 82. The difference is usually small enough, and consistent enough, that it doesn't pose a huge threat to the merit of using metacritic in certain situations.
That said, it does also add a bit of more weight to the (correct :p) argument that it should, in no context, be used as proof of something being an absolute fact.
