The Fall of Xbox - Video by Videogamedunkey

[COKTOE]

Hiku said:

SammyGiireal said:

Which is why Metacritic exists. An average rating of profesional opinions on games. BotW was 2017s game of the year in most mayor publications, that is all that matters. All those 10s moved switched units, in fact at one Point more copies of BotW had been sold than the console itself. I massively enjoyed HZD that year, but BotW was in truth a better game.

Professional reviewers critique and rate games based on factors that can have little, or some times nothing, to do with people's enjoyment of a game.
And most people would rate the game they enjoyed the most as their best game of that year. And there's nothing wrong with that.

God of War got nothing but 10's and 9's, and won GOTY in 2018 at the game awards. Yet I did not enjoy that game much at all. So I can never know how much I will enjoy a game just based on review scores or GOTY nominations. 

Yep. Uncharted 4, sitting at 93 MC, was my least favorite in the series, and my biggest letdown of all the PS4 exclusives I've played thus far. I REALLY didn't like the gunplay/combat, and there's lots of it in the game. I would have been one of the reviewers that got doxxed after giving it a 7, were that my profession. In a bit of irony, before I had played it myself, my final strike at N4G was when I referred to a reviewer who gave it a 7 as a hooker. I was trying to get banned, so please forgive the lowbrow pot-shot.

Not discounting the idea that MC or awards have meaning.

Last edited by COKTOE - on 20 September 2019