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Samus Aran on 05 December 2014
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Zekkyou said:
Samus Aran said:

Wrong as that would mean the critic score means bugger all as well for Nintendo games. In case you didn't notice, the gap between those two scores on Nintendo games is always very small. That's why I'm surprised it's so big with Captain Toad. And Wii U has many niche games like DKC: TF (sold like a niche game) and PIkmin 3. 

Not sure why you're talking about the immaturity of the XBOX or PS fanbase on metacritic, this is about Nintendo. 

Anyway, 3 people gave it a zero out of ten so far, right after I made the thread lol. Hmm, how mature of some. 

I'm simply explaining why the score is/can be so high. CT will have had a 9.9 from a combination of people who actually like it, fanboys throwing 10s around simply because it's a Nintendo title, and it being niche enough to be ignored by other fanbases. 

It's the same reason KH2.5 has such a high score. CT and KH2.5 may very well deserve those scores to the niche they appeal too, but we have no way to be sure of that. The ease of manipulating the scores (both up and down) invalidate their use.

On top of all of this, the sample size of both games is tiny. 3 0's being enough to drop it from 9.9 to 9.3 should adequately demonstrate how flimsy (thus useless) metacritic user scores are (regardless to the score itself).

I already know how useless user scores can be for PS and XBOX games, but like I said, I have always found them to be more accurate on when it comes to Nintendo games. And the Wii U has many niche games if we're going by sales. Bayonetta 1 is widely considered a niche game yet it sold more than DKC: TF will probably ever reach. Even Bayo 2 is currently outpacing it (but maybe that game is more frontloaded than DKC). 

I doubt any PS or XBOX fanboy cares enough to give DK a low score or anything. It's more plausible that frustrated people will give it a low score because the game kicked their ass. :)