Codename: S.T.E.A.M has a metacritic of 71.

[Nuvendil]

RolStoppable said:

Nuvendil said:

Polygon should lose its Metacritic status for publishing such a review. It's one thing to be pretentious dicks, it's another thing to be unethical. And no, disclosing it does not make it ok.

I also think the green on Metacritic for games should start at 70 not 75.  It starts at 70 for movies, why do games have a more strict standard? 

Because game reviewers have had less strict standards for the longest time.

While I generally agree, games rated seven usually aren't of mediocre quality.  But that might just be my experience.  The more important issue that needs fixing is the lack of a standard for "average" in scores.  As it stands, some sites have it at 5, others at 6, and still others at 7, which makes combining them into one score a crap shoot at best.  If the major sites would all say "ok, 5 is average from here on" or 6 or whatever, it would help balanced things out a good bit.