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freebs2 on 24 May 2018
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CGI-Quality said:
yvanjean said:

What about the three reviews that gave 95%, they clearly failed to capture what the game will offer. If you go read their review and ignore the score, you will see that the critics are simply voicing their valid opinions and concerns.  

That's the beauty of metacritic you take three abnormally high 95's and add in two abnormally low 40's you get .... a meta of 73.  Once you get enough reviews, you will get a proper Metacritic  that will be off by +/- a few point a few over critical score good or bad won't matter. We put way to much emphasis on a number (myself included) and because of our over-reaction low and high score are used for click baits. 

As a fan of Xbox and State of Decay, the metacritic of 68 for State of Decay 2 is a huge concern. Not, because I think the reviewer did an awful job (some of them may of been overly critical) But, a low meta does show that there clearly some problem with the game that has consumers we should be made aware. 

Extremes in either direction can be cause for alarm, but when the general consensus is an "8/10", then a 4/10 is definitely questionable.

In the 1950s it was general consensus that white men and black women shouldn't marry each other. If you thought otherwise your opinion was definetly questionable.

Just a practical example of how general conensus is subjected to bias as well of personal opinions. Should we really give all this credit to it?