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I replied to a guy on Miiverse who had COD Ghosts on order, but was going to return it without playing it after seeing 3/10 on the meta user reviews. I pointed out that the clue was in the title "user reviews" and would most likely be people trolling. Thankfully he took my advice and is now loving the game, he actually thanked me which is nice.

Personally i think review scores should be abolished, the reviewer should do a written review of his/her opinions then instead of a scoring system do a pros and cons list. This will allow us to make our own minds up if a game is worth purchasing. I had a massive gripe over the inconsistent review scores of Sonic lost world recently, there was no consistentcy in the scoring.



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anything that scores higher than 2.7 on metacritic user scores is a great game.



DerNebel said:
Absolutely. Metacritic user reviews are a joke, if a game prior to launch had some controversy attached to it, it will get alot of bad user reviews, if a game is from series that is generally hated on the internet it will get tons of bad reviews, if a game is a big exclusvie to one platform it will get 0s from the fanboys of opposing platforms, while at the same time getting 10s from the fanboys of the platform. It's never about the game it's about the companies behind the games and how much you love them or hate them, or how much think they fucked up.
The only case where I would consider saying that user reviews can be representative of the quality of a game is with small games without much hype surrounding them.

Also just for the fun of it, here's a user review, can you guess about which game it is?

I have 5 reasons I hate this game
1. Another zombie game in which zombies can hear the slightest sound miles away(exp. a gun bullet falling to the ground)
2. Awful story and bad voice acting
3. Some of the worst lines/quotes
4. Bad controls
5. The human AI's don't fear guns and for some reason have unlimited ammo but no once can you take their weapons

0/10

The Last of Us



I wonder if Turkish will enter this thread.



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Make Believe:





Metacritic is a joke period.



lol i was also looking for real user reviews for ghosts, im gonna get it with my ps4 this yr but wanted to know how good or bad the campaign is compared to the others i had no luck on that even cant find fair utube reviews on it



                                                             

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Mmmfishtacos said:
Metacritic is a joke period.


There's something to be said for being blunt. I like it and agree with this statement.



Aggregate scores in general are a joke. A 7/10 game for one "critic" can be a 4/10 game for another. Averaging out opinions is one of the stupidest ideas in the history of rating systems. To add to the absurdity, Metacritic allows random people to rate movies, games, and music with even less oversight than critics.



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