That's a little less useless than the current systems people employ, but if everyone isn't using the same metrics, it's only going to do so much good.  I agree though, many people don't read the reviews, which is silly.  It's just easier for me to trust friends who have like-minded tastes in gaming.

As a fan of the series I feel that it could indeed be bigger. But it has done EXCELLENT if you ask me. And also I am not sure why you feel it would have gotten more success as an Xbix exclusive there is zero evidence that it would have been bigger on Xbox than it currently is on PS. Multiplatform yeah more than likely but as an Xbix exclusive I do not see what reason you would have to even think that.

God Of War is one of the few PS exclusives which makes Xbox owners feel jealous it sold many more PS3s to Xbox 360 owners than you could imagine. Its easily one of PlayStation's most unique exclusives. And it certainly would have done better with Xbox's more western-games centric audience and bigger NA market where God Of War sells the most.

i have both xbox and playstation and can tell  i don't feel jealous of sony having GOW. i even played and finished all availble GOW games and can say with all honesty,, the game is entertaining but far from phenomenal or groundbreaking imo

Ryse has more in common with Beyond than Heavy Rain, and Beyond is at a 70 metascore. I think Ryse would have performed much better in reviews had they found another way other than constant button presses to reward you for executions. It was an immediate, insurmountable criticism for some people. Like Beyond, all the presentation and story in the world won't make up for core gameplay mechanics that people simply didn't enjoy.

LOL @ calling Ryse a piss poor GoW attempt. I am guessing these people making this comparison have never played Ryse or GoW or maybe both.

Well it was actually well received by most critics and user scores are very generous.

Hence, that shows the validity to this thread.

no it doesn't, the reviews of beyond don't mean Ryse wasn't crappy or was somehow just mistunderstood. You're still certainly allowed to like the game, but don't pretend that the games reviews were bad for any other reason than issues with the game.

Ryse is a shit game period...Beyond wasn't good, Heavy rain was excellent, not rocket science, anything else is pure spin. Doesn't matter who makes the game a bad game is a bad game and LOL at reviews rating it bad because it was not QD? Ryse story cannot hold a candle to HR or it's characters and choices that had real weight.

An obvious stealth troll attempt to incite a reaction, why didn't OP mention tell tale games that have won numerous awards and are highly reviewed?

You just described quantic dream's games

These are the rules of metacritic.
(1) A game is either inflated when it is exlusive, unless a war is happens. 
(2) Incase of a war, a game is rated horribly at the start but eventually recovers.
(3) Anything below 75 is considered Mixed since gamers only know 8-10 scale of gaming. 
(4) Why are you on this horrible site.
(5) For heaven sakes they allowed the Toronto Sun in.
(6) Seriously get off it.

Now I will say Heavy Rain was entertaining but Beyond was just a clusterfuck, not many praise it. Infact I know some sony centric fanatics that hate it, not here sadly.