By the way I agree with the point. Using the opinion of somebody else that may not even have the level of experience you do in the series or even genre over your own is bat shit stupid

I used metacritic.. along with my own mind to make decisions..

People who gets offended by it is the problem.. no like? dont use!.. simple..

What I don't like about people using Metacritic for both arguments and game purchasing decisions is that Metacritic, for most people, has no context. A few bad reviewers can drag a games score down even if the game really is spectacular. Most people just look at the combined score and it's far too difficult to wade through all the reviews and disregard the trash ones. Metacritic is just too flawed to be taken seriously. Halo 4 is the best Halo game yet it has one of the lowest scores in the series. That is preposterous.

So by that logic metacritic scores should decay over time. Some parts of me agree, but other parts see the problems with this. Then again I think metacritic is already flawed so it doesn't matter.

@BOLD That irks me. If a sequel is better than its first, it should score better regardless of the competition. If we end up with twenty 90+ platformers in a year, we only need to stretch out their scores still keeping the same relative position.

Sounds like you have a problem with that Halo guy. :P

Kidding, anyways metacritic never really works debating quality, only thing it really tells you whether a game is terrible or not. (In most cases).

In that sense every COD should score higher than the previous one since each iteration makes small improvements to the formula.

Yes, they should. If we use metacritic to tell us which game is best then COD needs to score higher and higher.

The focus on metascore is completely and utterly ridiculous this gen, I agree. For me, a metascore is as important as the smell of the head developers' farts.

A score simply says nothing on how much you will enjoy the game and I have never experienced loathing so many highly praised games as in the 7th gen, the list is unfathomably long up until now.

The LBP 1 and Uncharted 2 metacritic rants bother me (yes I still get those).

However the system, not perfect, is the best system we got.

"Someone might like CODBlOPS: Declasified more than Uncharted 2, or Halo 4 and that's 100% valid"

That sentence is upsetting. This is why we use metacritic. Those people are wrong, their opinions are wrong, their tastes in gaming are wrong, and its every bodies job to tell them that they are wrong and play better games for their own good even if they dont see it themselves.

I agree! for example ps all-stars has a 75 on metacritic but i'm enjoying the game so much that i can't believe!