| Pemalite said: I usually don't even look at reviews anymore. |
The vast majority of my favorites are 80s-tier games according to Metacritic. A lot of the 90s-tier stuff bores me. A lot of games I like are 70s, even a couple of 60s. I honestly stopped caring much about Metacritic after what happened to Obsidian with Fallout: New Vegas, which I absolutely loved. Most people would probably say my tastes in games suck. Oh, well.
I think part of the problem with aggregate scores is that we've been conditioned from our years in school. 70 is supposed to be a C (75 in some scales), which is "average". In reality, my mother would start chewing me out and restricting my gaming privileges if my grades dropped below a B. When I was in nursing school, you had to have a minimum 72 (C-) to pass. There was no "D." If you made a 71, you failed. So we're conditioned to see 70s as borderline failing grades. And when letter scores are involved, Metacritic tends to weigh a B as 75, a C as 50, a D as 25, and F as zero. At least they did the last time I saw one of those. And one less than stellar grade from some hole-in-the-wall site that barely has enough recognition to be captured by MC can sink a game's aggregate.
7.8 out of 10, too much water.
