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.










