| Jumpin said: Meta scores are generally not a good thing to go by because they consider crap reviewers, biased reviewers, and youtube hobbyists that somehow get held up with the same respect as professional game journalists. Not to mention there is no unified standard of scoring, no unified quality of scoring, so basically it's an arbitrary number. |
For almost two years Opencritic let you blacklist any reviewers you didn't like. I blocked all the bad reviewers, youtubers, and biased reviewers. Most games still got within two or three points of the official metascore. So a game getting 81 on MC would wind up getting anywhere from 78 to 84 on my personal Opencritic settings.
But they took that away, so now I have to whip out a calculator at times and do my own math, whenever a game falls into the 80ish range. Or I'll just hit up Destructoid, and use Chris Carter's reviews as the final say so. Or I'll go to Easy Allies to see what they say.
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