GTAexpert said:
I have more reasons than that to call them biased: 1. They gave SM3DW GOTY of 2013 when the rest of the world was giving it to either TLOU or GTA V. 2. They also gave it a 10, way above its metacritic average. 3. They gave MK8 a 10, again way above its metacritic average. 4. They gave Infamous: Second Son and Driveclub a 7 and 6, way below their metacritic averages. They even criticised Driveclub for not being open-world and not having a festival like FH2 did. 5. They declare this as the best-looking game of this year. 6. Their recent article of PS4's first year, and not even mentioning its highlights like Infamous: Second Son. |
Wait, what?
1 & 2. SM3DW has a Metacritic rating of 93. No, not the highest of the year, but one of them. It's higher rated on MC than 5/10 of the games in your signature. It has over two dozen perfect scores posted out of a total 82 reviews. For Eurogamer to name it their GOTY isn't bias. It's basic statistics. Surely, if 25 people say that a game is perfect, one of them will also say that it's the best game of the year?
3. See above.
4. Driveclub has a Metactic rating of 71. Nearly half of its reviews are mixed or negative. Its user score is even lower at 5.5, indicating that it really wasn't as well-received as you thought. EG's score wasn't atypical. You have a little more of a point with ISS, as it was well-received by both critics and gamers, but it's still not that far off the average to give it a 7. 19 others gave it a 7 or lower, so where's their bias?
5. So did a lot of people, because MK8 is gorgeous. Only game that could give it a run in 2014 is Infamous: Second Son in my opinion. Both have phenomenal art direction and presentation.
