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adriane23 on 20 March 2014
Nate4Drake said:
adriane23 said:
A fucking 81!? Preorder canceled cuz Metacritic is god!

If you want to make any Metacritic score more reliable, when all reviews have been released, remove the TOP 10 reviews and the 10 Bottom reviews, so that you have a more reliable score, removing some fake 5/10 or 4/10(example), and also removing some 'easy' 9.5 or 10.    So that most of 'fake' 9.5-10/10 and 'fake' 4-6/10 to get some attention and spot, are removed.  Try to do it with both Titanfall and Infamous, and you will have a score which reflects better the value of the game.


Or I can completely dismiss quantified opinions altogether and buy what I like.



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adriane23 on 20 March 2014
GribbleGrunger said:
Sucker Punch only have themselves to blame. If they'd removed the story, made sure the framerate drops regularly, added tearing and made it online only, the scores would have been much better.

And also make the graphics looks last gen. I think that's the key to an 86+ meta this gen.



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HEMSTAR on 20 March 2014
ps3-sales! said:

Simple question, difficult answer. With the recent metacritic reviews coming in Infamous Second Son has an average of 81; or a flop by AAA game standards. Where did Sucker Punch go wrong? It's obvious that the 54 critics on metacritic all agreed with one thing: The story sucks. 

It's a shame really. But I guess with Titanfall failing to be a great game with a score of 90+, we should have expected this. The next gen simply isn't very next gen if it can't even produce 90+ games on Metacritic because as we all know; great games must have at least a 90+ score to be great. 

Put simply: Infamous: Second Son is a flop; as is Titanfall. I guess we're still waiting for the first truely "next gen game". 

Discuss why Infamous is a flop in your opinion. 

 

 

 

 

*Disclaimer: I have not played infamous nor Titanfall. I am simply assuming they are bad games based on their subpar 90 meta-scores as most gamers should*


Neither Infamous or Titanfall are flops. You just had unrealistic expectations. I expected Infamous to be around 85 and Titanfall to be close to 90 and they only scored a tad lower than i expected. By the way 81 is no flop.



MARCUSDJACKSON on 20 March 2014

Lmao



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Zappykins on 20 March 2014

Ah, oh, well. I'm more surprised by Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zero lower score.



 

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ps3-sales! on 20 March 2014
spurgeonryan said:
Another post for this post hungry thread. It only flopped if the user score is low and it makes the next game in the series sell badly, since this one could push a million first week.


What are you talking about? Practically nobody posted on this thread.



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Homeroids on 20 March 2014

Technically speaking, 81 is not a flop by MC standards. Guess what? It's got a "green" coding. Is this OP kind of trolling? lol.

So is the OP's definition of NOT a flop anything over 90?



Justagamer on 20 March 2014

The problem isn't the score of the game, an 81 is pretty great. The problem is calling it aaa, its not one of sonys aaa series. Its bbb series, and thats still pretty good. The huge, big guns will come later. They bring good games now, then when theres a pretty big audience, they will release their best stuff... im thinking second half next year for games like uncharted..... im glad second son is scoring well... I will pick this up tomorrow after work, and go 90 all the way home to play it. It looks pretty damn fun to me. I think ill enjoy the story for what it is too, a fun story, on a game that looks beautiful and fun. I cant wait till 3:30 pm tomorrow.......



Justagamer on 20 March 2014
GribbleGrunger said:
Sucker Punch only have themselves to blame. If they'd removed the story, made sure the framerate drops regularly, added tearing and made it online only, the scores would have been much better.


Thats funny. Thank you for the laugh. Lol, so true. Stupid sucker punch.



GribbleGrunger on 20 March 2014
Justagamer said:
GribbleGrunger said:
Sucker Punch only have themselves to blame. If they'd removed the story, made sure the framerate drops regularly, added tearing and made it online only, the scores would have been much better.


Thats funny. Thank you for the laugh. Lol, so true. Stupid sucker punch.

If they had also made it unavailable in Africa, it would have got 5/5 from Sessler.



 

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