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twintail said:
Cerebralbore101 said:

That's part of why I don't like them though. They insist that 5/10 is the average when the rest of the industry has long accepted that it is 7/10. Their own reviews don't even agree with that. According to metacritic the average score issued by Edge is 6.5/10. 

Sorry what's the connection between their 5 and the 6.5 scores?

On their site they say that 5 means average. But if you take all of their review scores, add them up, and divide them by the number of reviews you get 6.5. For example let's say I am a game reviewer. I give three different games three different scores. The first game is given a 10, the second game is given a 7, and the third game is given a 4. The average review score handed out by me in this situation would be a 7, since (4 + 7 + 10)/3 = 7. But when people complain about the extremely low score of 4, I say that 5 is the "average". But if 5 is truly the average then getting a 10 should be that much harder.