We'll just have to see.

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OT: Since when is 81 a low average score

It's likely it won't really have an affect on sales at all.

Came in to ask the same thing. 81 should considered pretty good imo.

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Some genres have an easier time getting high review scores. Games like FPS appeal to more people, and games like JRPGs appeal to fewer people. 81 is kinda low for a shooting game, but pretty high for a JRPG.

Anyway, any game that gets 80 or above on Opencritic/Metacritic is a worthwhile purchase in my book. So long as said game doesn't include shady pricing like MTS, or on disc DLC.

I bet Far Cry 5 is getting a slightly lower score because of franchise fatigue. Some reviewers are just tired of the same formula being followed. It happens to a lot of games. Poke'mon started to suffer from it until X/Y reinvigorated the series.

That's not a bad score, actually.

The notion that people buy games based solely on their meta score is very depressing. Though scores can raise or lower my expectations and/or interest in a game, i rarely consider it that much influential. Many were the games with low scores that i had fun with, and even higher were the number of high scoring games that i despised.

1) Metacritic score means literally nothing, most of the critics on that website are SJW's who get offended by anything. Especially by Farcry 5 and its setting.

2) Why would you ever pre-order a Ubisoft title?

3) This game is still going to sell like a beast even if it's gameplay is more mediocre than Ghost Recon Wildlands.

I suppose it depends on how many people are slaves to an aggregate number created by a small group of strangers.