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Veknoid_Outcast said:

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.

I think user reviews have value taken alongside the critic score. The PSN user scores are pretty decent cause people only rate if something is very good or bad so if you see something that's a 3 or less you known fairly well it's a shit show and if you see something rate 4.5 and above then it's gotten be something to look into further. This is all just to get to that research point mind, not actually buying the game. Gotta HLTB check it and then start researching to see if the game is for me or not.