| Torillian said: I love your use of Metacritic Starcraft since you just blindly take the end number and don't care about how the two are different. If you'd looked you'd know that the PS3 version has far fewer reviews (obviously) and those sites that reviewed both are only 3, Eurogamer (same score) IGN (360 better) 1up (PS3 better). So the PS3's lower score won't really mean much until the sites that gave the original game it's higher scores (Play, G4, Cheatcodecentral) weigh in on the new version. editted edition: I just wanted to add that I'm not interested in this game and don't really give a crap which one ends up better. I simply wanted to call into question Starcraft's extremely basic and flawed analysis. |
Actually I did look at the number of reviews.
IN my opinion (and in Metacritic's opinion) a dozen reviews is enough to get a first impression of where a game will go. Also, there are exceedingly few titles who's aggregate scores trend upwards after the first ten or so reviews are out. This is due to the fact that publishers generally stipulate that lower scoring reviews cannot be released until after the release of a game.
As for my "flawed analysis?" I offered no analysis. I tend to think that an aggregate is more important than direct reviewer by reviewer comparisons. Especially when you consider (and you clearly did not) that some publications (like 1UP) have DIFFERENT reviewers scoring each version.
No apology necessary Torillian, you're stunned silence will suffice.
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