Lack of controller support?

Console port. No toolset. Non-traditional arpg. Leaving room to give Starcraft goty? IDK. Should be 94 meta. on the box too but so should Bioshock, Orange Box and GTAIV imo.

The thing is also that when it comes to reviewing PC games, it doesn't have all those Xbox/Playstation/NintendoOfficial Magazine and PS/Xbox/Wii Planet/world/Galaxy/universe/player/community sites that whenever an exclusive or AAA title comes out they quickly give it a 10 and ignore all negative part of the game which boosts up the Metacritic of the console games. PC Gaming takes no side because you there is no side. Also most of the reviews for Mass Effect 2 which you see in the PC section were actually done on the Xbox360.

The controls aren't actually as good on the keyboard side as a gamepad. However theres no gamepad support.

The PC gaming standard is relatively higher than console. Reviews are given based on the platform. Hence, a game that pushes a weak platform might score higher than the same game if it was released with the same features on a significantly more powerful platform.

For example, I have no doubt that super mario galaxy would have scored a lower score had it been released(in its current state) on an X360/PS3 due to the graphics and sound.

PC reviewer standards are higher especially in graphics.

It is also entirely possible that a majority of reviewers, like the majority of gamers, prefer to play their hardcore games on televisions with consoles.

Yeah, pc games are expected to do marginally better.

The truth is, only 36 people have reviews the PC version, compared to 81 for the 360. The people giving the scores didn't play the PC version to give it the 100(or 0) they otherwise might have given it. It should not be spun as a point of pride for PC gamers when they have less people reviewing their games. If taken as a sign of anything, it certainly shoudn't be taken as a positive sign on the state of average PC library quality as it is being spun here, and dare-I-say-it, the anecdotal PC library quality guestimation crowd can ill-afford to thumb its nose at a game as good as Mass Effect 2, nor could any console, for that matter...

A few of you make no sense to me because:

A. The game having better or worse graphics depends entirely upon the PC from which you play it.

B. Tons PC reviewers DID give this game a 10/10. That doesn't seem very strict at all.

C. Being a harsher reviewer and having higher standards are not the same thing.

Here are a few statments.

I'm not saying the PC version isn't a superior game, assuming it is being played on superior hardware, but the game is basically the same, hardware differences aside. The largest differences I assume would be graphics, UI, DRM protection of some kind, installation times, and non-uniform hardware enduced crashed or glitches, since there were no mods pre-release, and you can't review what isn't there. Assuming reviewers have modern gaming rigs, most would probably give the graphical comparison to the PC.

The same thing happens a lot of times with the PS3 vs 360 versions of a game. The reason usually is there are a lot of sites that don't review the PS3 version of a game, but give the 360 version a 10/10. In a lot of cases, we see this happening, but we never credit it to a plan or a scheme by reviewers.

You see, reviewers might be smart, but they aren't smart enough to communicate a conspiracy theory of generally low reviews, and they don't all conform to your preconceptions of "very pickey snobbish gamers."

Make of that what you will.

Or maybe the exact opposite?

I'm fairly certain, that both PC and consoles have their respective reviewers, who doesn't use the other platform for gaming / reviewing. Or that's atleast how it's been done in most of the biggest critical subjects in the industry.

Also on the topic, yes PC gamers and reviewers have much higher standarts than console gamers / reviewers. When PC game comes out, it's compared to the whole back catalogue in every possible aspect. On the console, you are comparing that game usually only to the back catalogue of that given console, therefore Wii game can get 10/10 in graphics department, while it visualy doesn't hold a candle to crappy multiplatform on HD. The same way Gears of War was a great success on the Xbox, with critically acclaimed graphics, but it floped on PC. PC gamers and reviewers had their standart set much higher.