A number means nothing, read what they say. A couple of the review briefs on Meta for DC said that the MP was great, yet one gave it 85, the other 70. In the end, MP is still great. The best reviews out there are ones without the score, or at least the score doesn't matter.

You really don't understand.

The number don't matter at all.

The issue is a company grimping a version in favor of other... the game can be 1080p or 400p and the issue will be the same.

And Ubisoft said it was done intentionally... that is a fact already.

Limited time or budget is what make reading review so important. I think you have it all wrong, If there a game your excited to play ... you're probably going to buy it anyways. It's a game like Shadow of Mordor, I knew very little about this game and never planned on getting it, once the positive reviews came out it peak my interest and now i'll probably pick it up once it get a discount from the full retail price.

I think metacritics is a great site and offer a good gague on quality of the game.  In a month from now, I'll pick up either Sunset overdrive, Shadow of Mordor or Destiny on the Xbox one.... I'll wait to see the review on Sunset Overdrive and make a decision on which game to buy.

To answer your question a 67 is a bad game that should probably be avoided. 

I haven't depended on Metacritic in my life, I stopped depending on reviews almost completely.

I've never let negative scores really dictate whether I get a game that looks appealing to me. I will read the reviews and see whether I'm still interested based on what they point out. However there are situations in a high metacritic makes me try out a game that I otherwise would have ignored.

I completely and totally depend on Metacritic as a number to further my argument if the collectiive score associated with the game that I am defending is high. If said number is low, then I say what a bunch of crap Metacritic is.

I don't. I usually decide when I see live streams. The scores give me an idea on what some people complain about. Like, take Destiny. I saw angryjoe's review, I read all the comments. But I fully decided to not buy it from watching 12 hrs of live streams on Twitch. I'd go ape shit over the shitty repetition and the loot system. Regardless of it being patched later. I need story content. So I have to wait till they release it, at the least. Needing a website to understand the characters is bs.

It's kind of easy. You read the scores from the people you trust and see if multiple reviewers say the same thing is a problem, then you know at least that aspect of the game isn't very well developed. Then watch some videos and decide if that's enough to detour you from buying.

Never did, never will.

I use every review i dont consider as total trash. When trying to find info on a game i dont already have a pretty good idea how it turns out/will turn out, i watch the GT review cause i know what ticks those guys and when they are just talking nonsense. I watch youtube videos of people playing it and video reviews of normal honest people.
Depending on the genre i might also check say RPGfan if its an RPG.

Anyways from all the info i get i build an idea of what the game is. Metacritic is just a number. If the number is very low it tells me that alot of people didnt like that game, wich isnt necessarely useful information, as i'm interested in knowing if i like it. I read the bad reviews, the good review and hear what they have say.

This all brings me to having an image of what i will find and wether i will enjoy it or not.

I imagine many people dont give it that much thought and just check meta and go yes/no depending on that. I dont blame them, because they probably have more money to dispose of than time. Since gaming is a hobby i love, i usually am quite well informed.

60 U$ is a big investment to do, and game reviews work as a guideline of the quality of the title. I usually use metacritic to define WHEN I am buying the game, and I have a list of sites in which the reviews share the same taste as me. I can still have a lot of fun with the tiltes, but maybe is not worth 60 U$, and that is the reason why reviews exist, to work as a guideline.