Sea of Thieves is Microsoft's fastest selling first party new IP of this generation.

[DonFerrari]

flashfire926 said:

DonFerrari said:

Kirby being good or not (or any other game) have nothing to do with metacritics, but for the life of VGC sub 80 points have been scuffed at. Metacritic won't ever be a good measure, for me it is at most usable when I can't really do a proper investigation before buying a game I don't know anything about and if metacritic is too low I'll avoid, and that is it.

Seems like you haven't read CGI warning.

Farcry on this very site is being questioned about the possible impact on sales because of bad reception.

No, that is only one misguided person. Look at every single reply in that entire thread. So far sales figures show it is having the best debut in the series. And how is 81 reception "bad'?

No, sub-80 is only scuffed at because there are way better games available to play, that people don't bother with just average/decent games. For example I'm not going to touch sea of thieves. However, 7 is merely an average score. The claim that 80 is average and 70 is bad is pure bullshit, sorry to say.

But seems like you haven't read the warning since you're here just to take lowkey shots at the game.

Saying below 80 metacritic on VGC have been considered bad for a long time is taking a lowkey shot on a game? If you are asking me about reading warnings be careful about the part of keeping civil.

You said yourself, when the best game and which people want to play are near 90 score, a 80 is considered an average game so 70 is on the bad portion. Games aren't looked as arithmetic mean, it is just that for something that you have limited time to play or budget, a 69 isn't considered average or good, for most people it's considered not worth to try.

flashfire926 said:

hudsoniscool said:
Ya a 80 is not “average”. I think a 80 is very good. Since reviewers have cracked down this gen I think it’s
5= bad
6= below average
7= average
7.5= good
8= very good
8.5= great
9= amazing, and in the discussion for goty
9.5+= near flawless and goty tier.

THIS^^^

Have you bothered to check the caveat he put with "cracked down this gen"

You are quite new to VGC, for several years games below 80 were scoffed at over here.