Gears of War - Metacritic (currently 85)

[DonFerrari]

Pemalite said:

DonFerrari said:

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.

Well it isn't just in the same timeframe but they also compare to the best games that released within the same gen.

We have seem many great games score within 85-90 even though we personally though it deserved 95, and usually it have to do with reviewers not evaluating what the game is and have, but what they wanted to be, what it doesn't have (even if the dev didn't want to put it and fans don't care) and details or mechanics other games have used.

If you force your memory to the start of the generation you'll see cases of games that were much better than last gen counterparts but received lower scores.

Anyway at least 85 is a pretty good score, but I'll trust you on that it should have been higher based on your impressions of the game.