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Samus Aran on 28 December 2014
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DerNebel said:
Samus Aran said:
DerNebel said:

I really don't give a crap what people include in these lists, everyone sets the criteria in a way to make the console they want to look best look as good as possible anyway, at the end of the day it's utterly irrelevant, nobody is going to go on metacritic and base his/her console decision on a highscore comparison like that.

But there are loads of people on the internet that use metacritic as an argument as to why their console is factually better than the other.

And then they come with a list of games that consists out of mostly indie games that any old PC could play... 

My list only includes new games or relevant remakes. What's a relevant remake you ask? For example, the remake of the original Resident Evil that the PS4 will get next year... Or Metroid: Zero mission. 

Alright...? Honestly you're just proving the point I was making, people set all these different arbritrary criteria for their lists, so the result looks like they want it to look.

What makes a game or remake relevant? There is absolutely no universally right answer for that, every game can be relevant to a certain person.

For example most of the metacritic lists compare exclusives, but let's assume that someone that owns no gaming device at all uses a comparison like that for his console decision between e.g a PS4 or a Wii U. How is that not completely misleading and worthless?

People can make these lists as much as they want, that doesn't change that they really matter extremely little.

I would always include third party games, even if the Wii U has none (that are any good). And most people's lists include third parties, at least from what I've seen. 

What makes a remake relevant? When it improves considerably upon the original... Not just slightly better graphics. Doesn't count in my book. Never said my opinion was universal either. 

The original Metroid is barely playable these days for example. Then came the remake... Metroid: Zero Mission. And it rocks!