Prediction: Zelda BOTW will not reach 90 metacritic

[d21lewis]

palou said:

etking said:

It just needs one single bad 50 score like Horizon got from USGamer. One single bad review and the 90 is out of reach. After the (mostly) very positive previews this got less likely but it still could happen for clickbait reasons alone. And for the fact that it is not a Dark Souls, because Dark Souls players cannot enjoy other combat styles anymore.

It's not just because of US Gamer, though. There were more reviewers that gave a score below 90 than there were reviewers giving a score above that (a score of exactly 90 having no impact on if it hits the mark or not.) A score very close to 90, above or below, seems to be fair, in that regard (though Metacritic should really implement a weighting system that reduces the impact of outliers.)

Last I checked, they did exactly that.