Splatoon Review Thread - MetaCritic 81% / GameRankings 81.46%

[Zekkyou]

JNK said:

Zekkyou said:

I think you missed my sarcasm. OlliOlli is significantly cheaper than Splatoon (and still a great game, even if it doesn't appeal to you). Even if it's held to the same general standards, it's going to be scored differently on that fact alone. You can't just linearly compare scores, they have a context that needs to be considered.

nah this still makes no sense.

Just similar to my example above.

Review of 2 PCs.

1. Made by Alienware, modern hardware, 1000€ -> "metascore" -> 81

2. Made by any unkown chinese company, crap hardware, 200€. "metascore"-> 82

 

Price have nothing to do with pure score.

In germany we have the term "Preis/Leistung". This means pretty much "Price/Greatness" so a additional indicator how good the score is compared to the low/high price. But the score itself shouldnt be influenced at all by the price.

People like to know if what they're buying is worth the money. Reviews have always followed the 'context + quality vs price' formula. You don't have to personally like it, but the majority seem happy enough with this system (and seeing as we're discussing generalized scores, the majority are the most relevant). Knowing if something is worth the entry price is just as important to me as knowing if it's actually any good.