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| Kakadu18 said: Most games function properly and are playable. That alone is why most games get at least ok scores. |
All movies are technically watchable from beginning to end, guess all of them should score at least 70.
...Okay, I know that's not the best comparison. But still, functioning properly should be the bare minimum, and 70 should not be the bare minimum line in a 0-100 scale.
If I'm being totally honest, I wish performance/glitches and stuff were rated separately from the game itself. So something like Cyberpunk 2077 got a good score on PC because it's a good game with few technical issues, whereas it had a "bad" (55-65 range) score on consoles because it was a good game filled with glitches and crashes and issues everywhere. I'd much rather there just be a score for what the game is, and then a score for its performance, which could be different between platforms. Anyways, that's just me, and it ain't happening, so whatever. Main point is, game scores are too high.
Either way this whole debate starts out of Metroid Prime's metascore being slightly lowered by one "bad" review from possibly the only professional reviewer who doesn't see 7.5 as a bad score. In the end it sits at a 94. It used to sit at a 95. The original had a 97. How does this matter? I don't think any of those numbers are undeserved for what the game is. All of them suggest that it's one of the greatest games ever, which it is.
