The Order 1886 is Ryse Son of Rome

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SlayerRondo said:

The reviews are in and The Order 1886 stands at a metascore of 65 barely five point higher than Ryse Son of Rome's 60 which we should take off given that the latter was a launch title.

Both games hyped from the beginning to extreme proportions.

The only merit to either game was their beautiful graphics and they suffered from to many quick time events boring story and imited gameply variety and length.

After Dying light and Evolve being disappointments this is just one more for the pile.

I just hope Bloodborne does not follow the trend.

One big difference between Ryse and The Order is that the metascore for Ryse = the median review score = 60. This means there are no outliers skewing the metascore up or down and making that might cause the metascore to not properly represent the reviews that make up the metascore.

The median review score for The Order is 70 whereas the metascore is 65. This suggests, at the moment,  a few especially low scores are skewing the metascore lower than what it probably should be, and perhaps the median score is a better representation of the reviews that currently make up the metascore. I think metacritic should provide both the median and the weighted average for all games so that people can see whether there are outliers that are having a skewing effect.

The arithmetic mean, especially when you have to apply a weighting factor (which introduces web-site bias into the metascore) is not necessarily always the best sort of average to use as a measurement.