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Acevil on 12 July 2016
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torok said:
Barozi said:

Because every Academy Award winning movie should have high 90s ratings? There are 24 categories. Just because a movie won an award for best visuals or best costume design doesn't mean that it's a good movie.

Also there's a difference between movie reviews and game reviews on Metacritic. An 80 movie doesn't have the same value as an 80 game. It's worth quite a bit more.

According to Metacritic, almost all 2016 Best Picture nominations are in the low 80s (http://www.metacritic.com/feature/2016-oscar-nominations-88th-academy-awards), which is pretty odd.

I understand that a 80 for a movie and for a game on Meta are different. However, I don't think they should be. For games, we would say that a low 80s for an Uncharted/Halo/Gears would be disapointing. For a film, a low 80s can even run for best picture. It's quite a gap.

That is exactly the issue, majority of those games are 80s if we actually were critical, bad games should get below 50, not 60-75. Gaming review system is screwed up. 

Every other medium uses the standard 5 as average (Mixed Reviews), and movies can actually get 0%-20%. Really hard pressed to find games to be even remotely near that.