God of War review thread - Meta: 94 OC: 95

[Azuren]

the-pi-guy said:

deskpro2k3 said:

He basically says it, "score inflation is a big problem." --- In other words, he is against "overinflated reviews" which ultimately affected this review.

I don't think he's saying that GoW's reviews are inflated, but all game reviews are inflated and that GC takes issues with that.  

As in the average game review is a 74, so the average game review is inflated by 24 points.  As opposed to 50 being an average.  

 

He's basically arguing that the bottom part of the scale is becoming meaningless, and using GoW's 75 as an example.  

In other words, a 75 is a fantastic score that's well above what should be the average.  

He's arguing against the norm and attempting to change the way about how people perceive game scores. The issue is no one else is giving number scores with that in mind, nor does anyone think the way they want. They're playing by a different standard and as a result, they're hurting the game's metascore.

 

If they wanted to maintain integrity, they would drop the number system altogether (not unlike Kotaku, though integrity isn't their strong suit). Instead, they're actively hurting games' scores because they don't like public perception of game scores, despite similarly giving over inflated scores to games that don't get very high MC scores. They're being disingenuous here, and they either need to change their scoring system or MC needs to remove them from the vet list.