| golfgt170 said: I went and made this nice collage of games that scored the highly praised 94+%. Not only loved by critics, but from users aswell. Not something to argue i think. I beleieve we all (DESPITE our gaming prefernces) love these games, or believe that they worth all the praise they got: -snip- As you can see, critic scores are somewhat familiar with the scores that gamers gave, 4,5 points max diference. And then we have the critically aclaimed Zelda BotW that ravaged critic scores with a whopping 97% so far. But what about the users? -snip- As you can see, we are a bit torn between critics and gamers. a whopping 21% differnce surely is not something to go by. Sure 7.6 is still great (hence 7/10 from sterling), but to go up to 97%. And for a zelda game when previous entries where so close in scores? Too much to go by... |
Don't put any weight in metacritic user scores, a lot more goes into generating them than just quality. Nintendo were previously mostly left alone, but a combination of the Switch's launch and Zelda's critical reception helped bring a lot of attention to it. Uncharted 4, Halo 5, etc, went through the same thing. Horizon was at 7.0 for a while because someone was botting it with 0's, but they were so blatant about it (it was like 200+ votes within a short period) that metacritic noticed and removed them.
