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Intrinsic said: 

You are right, but you are also looking at it wrong.

No matter what, the individuality of human nature will make any opinion subjective. However' said subjectivuty is pulled from generally objective facts. 

This is the very reason why every major decision making role in human society is based on averages from a pool of people as opposed to the voice of a single person.

MC does just that for game reviews, if a game scores 95 on metacritic, it means a greater average of its reviewers scored it above 9. The majority of reviewers.

In that case, the one or two people that score it a 5 simply cant be taken seriously. Mind you, this goes both ways. If the majority of reviewers rate a game a 5, then one person that gives it a 10 has to be ignored.

Its flat out folly when looking at a generally independent data set to then somehow give more credence or value to the single number that deviates from the majority.

Let's just agree to disagree, then.