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After years of looking at review scores, and seeing where my own scores land among them, I acknowledge there is value in the critical aggregate. I find myself landing ~10 points below the average pretty consistently, so I typically target titles no lower than high 70s (which is high 60s to low 70s for me).

The critical consensus is wrong at times, but I find it’s more likely to overrate than underrate.

As for the user score, that, for me, is less reliable, due to review bombing and console warring.