| tokilamockingbrd said: Destuctiod (who is usually pretty harsh on games) just added their review and its an 85. Metacritic needs to think of a way to prevent click bait reviews from getting added to the total. I think any score 20 points outside of the mean should get dropped and the new score calculated without it. If more bad scores come in the total will get lowered and then the scores would be shown. So if a game has a 72 on meta All of the 10s and 95s would get tossed but so would the 20s and 40s.... |
How would you decide which to toss, though? I mean, at what point do you determine the "average", in order to throw out reviews that are way above or way below it? Polygon has become more unbiased as time has passed, but there was a time when it seemed like they legitimately lowered scores on Playstation exclusives or Playstation promoted games (ex. TLOU got a 7.5, Ni No Kuni got a 6.5, etc). What if those kinds of reviews came in first, making the game have a "low score", then higher rated reviews from more objective reviewers came out. Would they get tossed because they were "20 points outside of the mean"? Something like what you'e suggesting is completely arbitrary.
But I see what you're getting at. It's precisely why Eurogamer dropped review numbers and Kotaku has a Yes/No/Not Yet system for if you should play a game or not.
