Metroid Prime Remastered Reviews: 95 Metacritic / 95 Opencritic

[mZuzek]

Kakadu18 said:

mZuzek said:

On another note, it's really ridiculous how people see 7's as bad scores in game journalism. Like if you go on Metacritic, sure, Sterling's score of 7.5 still counts as "positive", but as much as one decimal lower and it'd be yellow. Any game you play and say "eh it was fine" is an 8/10. Whereas for any other type of media, the same feeling would probably be a 6/10. All Sterling is doing is giving 7's for games they enjoyed. But since everyone else inflates scores so much, we end up with an infinity of games in the 80-95 range, and within that you have games of vastly different quality.

You may not be aware of that, but the overall average is in the low to mid 70s. On Opencritic the most common scores are 70-72.

https://opencritic.com/game/14280/metroid-prime-remastered/charts

Here you can see a graph with the score distributions with Metroid Prime Remastered being in the highest 1%.

You haven't done much to dismiss my point. Of course the average is going to be below 80, when it's an average for literally every game made. There's a lot of shitty games out there. Yet in spite of that, as we can see by the graph you posted, a majority of games score over 70 - the average score is roughly 73. So we have an entire scale that goes from 0 to 100, but over half of the games are occupying less than 30% of the scale. In other words, the scale is useless.

By the way, I had no idea this graph existed, it's really interesting and useful, so thanks for posting it.