Gears of War - Metacritic (currently 85)

[Pemalite]

DonFerrari said:

Pemalite said:

Which is absolutely baffling... Because Gears 5 is superior to Gears 4 in every single way on PC and Xbox, reviewers need to take note of what older games scored and score successive titles in relation to that.

Was always unnecessary to me! There are games that ranked highly on metacritic that I absolutely dislike... And other games which ranked poorly which I  absolutely adore.
Personal taste is a very big and real thing.

The detail is that usually reviewers will give a lower score if the sequel is at the same level or not much better.

Also the more and better games released besides the game under evaluation also pressure the score down.

Funny observation from Azz because on the Sony metacritic he was defending the lower scores as being valid plus on SoT and some other MS games that 70+ were great scores plus scores already not being important to determine if the game is good or bad on a generic term.

Sea of thieves deserved it's score, it was a pretty bare-bones and average game on release, even if it's premise was relatively unique.

But you are right, a games score should be reflected against games releasing around the same time as well... But I don't recall any big AAA releases in this current release window that would drag down Gears of War 5.

Gears 5 is certainly a superior title over Gears of War 4 in every regard, so it still baffles the mind that it's score doesn't reflect that.