Creative freedom, bravery, and risk in games development/publishing

[JWeinCom]

Jaicee said:

JWeinCom said:

Last 10 First Party/Exclusive Nintendo Games

Hyrule Warriors AOC- Metacritic Score 77 VGC Score 50. -27 points below MC.

Monster Hunter Rise- Metacritic Score 88 VGC Score 7. -18 points below MC.

Bravely Default II- Metacritic Score 76 VGC Score 7.5. -1 below MC.

Super Mario 3D All-Stars- Metacritic Score 82 VGC Score 7. -12 below MC.

Paper Mario Oragami King- Metacritic 80 VGC Score 8. Even with MC. 

Pokemon Sword and Shield- Metacritic 80 VGC Score 7. -10 below MC.

Luigi's Mansion 3- Metacritic 86 VGC Score 6. -26 below MC. 

Mario and Sonic- Metacritic 69 VGC Score 7. -1 below MC.

Link's Awakening Metacritic 87 VGC Score 80. -7 below MC.

AC New Horizons- Metacritic 90 VGC Score 80. -10 below MC. 

Last 10 Sony First Party Games

Returnal- Metacritic 86 VGC Score 6.5. -21 points below MC. 

Sackboy's Big Adventure- Metacritic 79 VGC Score 7. -9 below MC.

Miles Morales- Metacritic  85 VGC Score 7.5. -10 below MC. 

Ghost of Tsushima- Metacritic Score 83 VGC Score 5. -33 below MC.

Iron Man VR- Metacritic 73 VGC Score 7 -3 below MC. 

TLOU 2- Metacritic 93 VGC Score 7. -23 below MC.

Persona 5 Royal- Metacritic 93 VGC 9. -3 below MC. 

Spider-man PS4- Metacritic 87 VGC 8. -7 below MC

Detroit: Become Human- Metacritic 78 VGC 8. 2 above MC.

God of War- Metacritic 94 VGC 9. -4 below MC.

...You have more facts than me. That's not fair!

Lol. I actually looked into review scores and their comparison to MC scores as part of an unrelated post about the review system in general that I never wound up posting. So I had like a 5 month head start.

I had generally the same thoughts as you regarding Nintendo games being underrated and started looking into it and found that the review scores are just low in general.  I think people are just more likely to take note of it when it happens to games/companies they feel strongly about.

I believe when they were looking for new writers they mentioned their review scores being lower than the MC average as a point of pride, so their applicants are more likely to score things negatively. So, they just sort of have more negative slant by design, although not against any particular company. I think that's a bad policy in general, but not my website. 

Last edited by JWeinCom - on 06 July 2021