Detroit: Become Human Reviews: 79 Metacritic, 80 OpenCritic

[DonFerrari]

yvanjean said:

DonFerrari said:

Man if reviewers really used consistently used the full scale I wouldn't have much issue with they giving 40 points to a working game they think isn't good. But on general the scales start on 5 for very bad games and average sits on 7 a 4 seems to low for this game (more comparing to their other reviews).

It isn't a checkbox, but evaluation on specific critereas. This was the norm until gen 7 at least.

Good reviews have a standard to follow. If you don't have coherence, consistency and standard them your grade is meaningless.

This is where you are wrong.... you said " But on general the scales start on 5 for very bad games and average sits on 7 a 4 seems to low for this game (more comparing to their other reviews)." Just look at Metacritic color scheme for game negative (red score) are rank 49 or less, Mixed (yellow) are rank 50 to 74 and Positive (green) is 75+. Review website set their own standard there no industry standard in ranking. Beside if you ask any reviewer they all say how they hate putting a score to a game. Because guy like you will only look and judge them base on the score and for the most part won't even bother reading the review (not saying you din't read the review). Sites analytic show that majority of people that come to check a review skip the entire article and scroll down and only look at the score.  

You even go has far as accusing them of click baiting and just disregarding their opinion because its not align with what you want to see. Video games is an art and it's very subjective and it will not click with all people. You even mention that the score need to be higher because the average 80, how would that make unbiased reviews if they had to use the average score to assign a score. 

What does Metacritic color scheme have to do with it when very very very few games are below 50 and if you pull the average it's close to 70?

If the guy doesn't want to give a score then don't give. But if you are going to give, keep consistency on it.

When you are very far (half of the score) for a game then you certainly deserves scrutiny. And when you read their justifications they don't enforce a 40. Because as I said, they are basically just scoring on "how much did I like". That is no standard or coherence at all since the magazine have several different reviewers. And you can't really go and defend their totally bullocks 100 for broken games, very rare low score for good games but mixed in it a BS score for a good game can you?