Does metacritic correlate with your gaming taste? Average metacritic score of your current-gen gaming collection.

[Veknoid_Outcast]

Congrats on your first thread! This is a really interesting question :)

For me, Metacritic is all over the place. Some games are scored perfectly in line with my own assessment. For example, my top 10 is:

1) 99
2) 90
3) 97
4) 96
5) 92
6) 96
7) 92
8) 94
9) 90
10) 91

Others are 10, 20, sometimes 30 points away. It's very frustrating. I've been searching for a particular publication or reviewer whose standards match my own, but I've had no luck.

What's interesting is that, when it comes to movies, Metacritic is a really useful tool for me. The average score almost always corresponds to my personal opinion - with a few exceptions here and there. Not so with video game metascores - especially during the seventh generation when score inflation was rampant.