The Quantum Break Metacritic/review thread, Current meta: 77

[Goodnightmoon]

AEGRO said:

Goodnightmoon said:

Well, half of those +90 games are from the last gen, two of them are not even a game but a chapter and a dlc expansion,  and some other have a bigger scores because the low number of reviews (Shovel knight is 90 on Ps4 yet not on any other platform) There is actually only 3 +90 games from this gen, and only one is exclusive.

Something similar happens with the other list, is plenty of dlc, indies with low numbers of reviews, chapters of games, last gent remasters, etc

So do you think reviewers have been harsher this gen?

Or that games just havent been that good?

Whats your opinion on the matter?

Its a mix. I think last gen critics were too impressed by HD gaming and the hardware possibilities of the new generation and they gave really high scores to anything that looked impressive in some way, now it seems they are not that impressed already, the difference between both gens is not that big.

 But I also think triple A gaming is getting worse and worse everyday: games broken at launch, incomplete games with expensive dlc, too much care about the graphics and cinematics over the gameplay, overambitious games with unreasonable budgets that need to sell 10 milions and trying to appeal to absolutely everyone finally end up without any kind of soul, etc 

I think its a bit of both. But great games like Bloodborne or Bayonetta 2 still get great scores anyway, a 78 nowadays has more value than some years ago, but certainly is not the usual score of a great game. In this case probably because it isnt.