I don't get how Mass Effect 3 was a bad game (major spoilers)...

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hudsoniscool said:

JWeinCom said:

hudsoniscool said:

Scoobes said:

Because user scores are such a reliable metric...

Right, certain people spam negative reviews for hours. And I guess looking at meta scores is cherry picking.

In a conversation about whether or not people actually liked the game, yes it is cherry picking.

And if you want to point out how people can spam negative reviews for hours, I can point out how Mass Effect 3 ads ran on many of those sites that contributed to that 93 metascore.

Neither metric is 100% reliable, which is why taking one or the other alone is cherry picking.

 

Lol taking around 90 reviews from the top game critics, supposedly non biased reviewers, and averaging them out to a 93 is in no way shape or form "cherry picking". Taking a handful of these sure call it what u want but the whole of them, no. This score of 93 on meta is what u call reliable data. The meta userscore is not reliable data in any way. As I've seen reports and probably agreed by most on this site that more than half the user reviews on certain games are scored by someone who never played the game. Adding that angry or unsatisfied players are far more likely to spam reviews than people who actually liked the game they played makes the user score metric completely unreliable and to be honest never even worth a mention.

I know game quality is subjective, but metacritic is about as close to an independant metric as we can get atm...