| Bristow9091 said: Can't say I've played it myself, so I have no idea how good it is, but I never go by Metacritic to tell me whether a game is good or not anyway. There's games in the 90's I reckon should be in the 70's and vice versa lol. Then again, I'm the sort of guy that thinks Knack should be higher than 51 so meh... |
I agree, Metacritic is nothing to take seriously. I have also played games that are scores low and deserve higher and vice a versa.
| AngryLittleAlchemist said: This is an extremely odd position for you to take. You are constantly on this site defending games that are much lower rated, and have even pointed out a couple of times that the people arguing against you were only using metacritic as their basis. Now you're doing the same thing? Especially with Xbox exclusives, which you seem to praise so often, that often get similar or lower scores than Hitman 2 ... Yes, I can tell you with confidence Hitman 2 is one of the best games of the generation. And no, it's not funny to mock that opinion by saying it's an opinion held from 2002, especially while having the avatar of a franchise who hasn't had a full fledged game since 2004. If you think that IO isn't a worthy studio for Microsoft because of a Metacritic score in the 82-84 range, newsflash: That's far above what many Microsoft games get. In fact, Hitman 2's Metacritic score is tied with Hellblade's on PC and Hitman 2's score is a point above Hellblade's on PS4 ... guess Ninja Theory wasn't a worthy acquisition either. |
You are looking at it all wrong. As i mentioned above, Metacritic is nothing to take seriously.
When it comes to actually playing the games Metacritic has no effect on me. What i normally debate on this site is sales. When someone says this game sold more = better. Except to the brand, then Sales means more and Hitman.. well i dunno.
I am really focusing on the quality of the company that is rumoured to be brought by MS. I personally see no point in IO being brought. Hitman is not a sort after game, there just not bad games. It wont make a difference at all for Xbox if Hitman was exclusive or IO was under MS, i dont see it anyway.
Sure MS release games with worse scores, but those games see huge popularity and have been exclusives in the past like State of Decay 2. Undead Labs is also a small company and probably didnt cost much to purchase. That purchase makes more sense to me.
Its a nice opinion on your behalf, you obviously love Hitman 2, I personally havnt played it so i cannot judge it.
To me, and this is just my opinion here, there are better studios that would fit better for MS than IO.
Off topic - Half Life will forever remain a masterpiece, something Hitman has never accomplished, and Half Life did it twice. Theres alittle difference there when it comes to IP power. Half Life 3 weather its a flop will be a marketing dream and will push units. Hitman 5 or what ever number there up to.. well not so much.
On topic - Ninja Theory has shown talent and they made a game at Hell Blades calibre with very minimal expense. Money hungry corps like MS drool over companies like that. I can understand that purchase.
