and I thought they were giving high scores.

I think they are being fair. Last gen they were way too generous. Even average games were getting good scores which they didn't deserve.

They are being fair now, most of the time at least.

It's called bribe incentives.

Thank Arceus we have Nintendo!!!!! :P

I guess its better than them being too generous. We need innovation and new IPs. Reviewers need to be on the lookout for that.

cause we have games being rushed out the door and filled with glitches and game breaking bugs.

Pretty much.  A meta of 80 is actually really good now like it should be.

Games aren't "next gen" enough for them.

I don't have a problem with reviewers being a little harsher this gen, problem is that that wasn't communicated with anyone so a lot of people still operate under the assumption that everything has the same standard as 5 years ago, metacritic not changing their coloring system doesn't help with that either.

Imo you can add on average about 5 points to an aggregated score nowadays and you'll get about what the game would've gotten a couple years ago. Exception would be Nintendo games, they are still reviewed the same way as in gen 7, kinda appropriate to think that Nintendo is a couple years behind in that regard as well.

Thats true but for wat its worth, it had few games and it has the current highest Metascore game of this gen :) http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=193641&page=1