Rank the 98+ club (Metacritic)

[COKTOE]

Mr_No said:

COKTOE said:

Going to hop back in to defend GTA IV. I played through it twice. It had it's failings, but I liked it, and was one of the votes that has it in (distant) second. And to belabor my opinion, I like all of these games enough to say that I think they deserve their scores, in spite of the fact there are games I like more than these ones. Analysing and comparing meta is a mostly fruitless task in general. Doing it it with games spread across a 10 year gap is even more difficult. Or supremely easy, depending on how much weight you give your opinion as opposed to the opinions of others. As I suspected ( well, basically knew ) the older games have a much smaller body of reviews as compared to GTA IV as well. That makes it's meta score more impressive.

You know, that's another point that is not addressed. If many reviewers nowadays were tasked to review this game, the metascore wouldn't be up there in 99. There would've been many reviews that would've muddied the score overall for a myriad of reasons. And I agree with you that GTA IV holding up with a metascore of 98 after 64 reviews is quite impressive, and I'm 100% sure that if OoT had many more reviewers, it would have 98, maybe even less. A lot of people love hating on GTA IV, but the game did pave way for other games which improved on its base, GTA V being a good example.

64 on PS3, 89 on XB360! And since both the 360 and PS3 had "exclusive" reviews, it's total is probably over 100.