| maenthoven said: Founder of OpenCritic here... First, SF0 has 72/100 We have this on OpenCritic so that we can settle the "what is a good score?" debate once and for all. The average score across all games that are reviewed is roughly 74/100. So Star Fox Zero is below average when compared to all other games reviewed. The main caveat is the massive selection bias. The reality is that truly awful games just don't get reviewed. There are a whole bunch of games deserving of 1/10 and 2/10. But the reality is that they don't market themselves, don't distribute review copies effectively, etc. But... There are roughly 70 games that have higher review scores that have come out in 2016 alone, and over 300 if you start to include 2015. If you were someone that just went in order based on review scores, and you played 1 game every couple of days, you might not ever get to Star Fox Zero. I don't say this to discourage you guys from playing - "good" and "bad" are completely subjective, and I can't know for you. I'm personally going to go see the next Star Wars movie because I love Star Wars, and the reviews don't change that. |
Okey, that's interesting. I think that the sentence "SF:Zero is in the bottom 48,2% of games scored on OpenCritic" is a good measure for a comprehensive review method. What I was wonderfing about OC method is the sentence that says: "38% of reviewers recommend this game" or something like that. This percentage is based on the actual score (<75 is considered a "not recommended" review, for example) or is it based on actually reading the reviews and evaluating if the review is negative or positive? I think that percentage is misleading, since a 7/10 review from a certain site could be positive, and another 7/10 review from a different site could be negative. I'd even say that reviews are harsher nowadays, so, for example, the limits that Metacritic puts to say if a game has "mixed or average" reviews or "generally positive reviews" is too high. (75 is the limit, I think). It'd be interesting to have data about how reviews scores lowered in the past/new gen. I'm almost entirely sure about that.
I fully agree on what you said, good and bad are subjective, and nowadays we have enough info to know if we'll like the game/movie/whatever. But I like to discuss about reviews nevertheless! :P
