| shikamaru317 said: Honestly this whole discussion may be purely academic. I'm not even sure if there are still some publishers doing the whole metacritic bonus thing, after Bethesda pulled it on Obsidian and got called out on it, creating a bunch of negative PR for them. Hopefully the practice was abolished after that, but I'm not sure if it was or wasn't. I also agree that it would be nice if Metacritic and Opencritic took sites different review scales into account when averaging the scores, but I don't think they do, I think Metacritic at least only weights review scores based on how popular a gaming site is, the most popular sites like IGN and Gamespot having a higher weight put on their scores than the less popular sites do, and I don't think Opencritic weights scores at all. |
Ha, weighing the 'alternative' score heavier. I can see why putting different weights on less trusted sites but that's a whole other can of worms I used to visit gamerankings up to a couple gens ago, I see they closed last year. I don't know how they dealt with the influx of new review sites. Back then you mostly had big sites coming from actual magazines like Edge making up the combined scores (Are they gone as well?)
It's all a bit of a mess nowadays with who knows how many goty awards and every new game there are new review sites I've never heard of before lol. For example, when half-life 2 came out
https://web.archive.org/web/20041117043434/http://www.gamerankings.com/htmlpages2/914642.asp
The average review ratio for all 13 editorial reviews has been 97.6%, which went up to 24 selected reviews by the 20th (97.4%)
There are 81 reviews on Metacritic for half-life 2... No way to tell which are original.
It is what it is, 46 'reviews' already for Cyberpunk and another 18 pending and the game isn't even out yet, and that's just based on the PC version.
The last of us pt 2, 121 'critic' reviews LOL Things have gotten out of hand, that's over double the reviews compared to the biggest blockbuster movies.
