| Goodnightmoon said: An asshole has lowered the entire score of the game on metacritic by giving it a 5/10. Kill Screen is a freaking joke, why metacritic allows this clickbait publications to count? They did the same with Undertale, Rise of Tomb Raider, Bloodborne the old hunters, Super Mario Maker and now XCX. Their intentions are just too obvious. |
I'm more upset with Metacritic's balancing and weighting system. The whole point of the average being weighted is to give more reliable/consistent critics more credence, balance out different metrics, and help the meta reflect the general consensus. The game has 28 scores of 90 or higher, and Kill Screen rates lower by an average of over 7 points, AND Kill Screen is highly inconsistent, bouncing between high and low scores. They should be either thrown off Meta - given Game reactor got tossed for no reason I can find it can't be that big a move - or be weighted so as to not be able to drag scores down for the sake of clicks. If Metacritic wants to do weighting, they need to be responsible.
