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shikamaru317 said:

coolbeans said:

Not sure if it was @Spade or someone else, but I wanted to revive that Star Trek: Resurgence OC score discussion:

https://opencritic.com/game/14957/star-trek-resurgence

See how a few tougher critics giving it flat 7's can bump u its recommended percentage to 40%, versus the mid-20% of before?

It was me, yeah. Glad to see the recommended percentage is up, was pretty crazy how low it was before when the average score was that high at the time.

And it's a good insight into how the sausage is made.  You can have this dynamic of a game continually floating in the 6.5-7.5 range with a tepid recommended rating, but then something else with a similar score nabbing a bigger share all b/c maybe more Top Critics were cleanly split between 8/10 or 6/10.  There's less muddiness between that disparity since most sites' avg. score floats around a mid-7.