I know exactly how you feel.

Back in August 2012, I was really enjoying New Super Mario Bros 2. I thought it was a great improvement over the original game. It had more levels, and the power-ups, unlike the Blue Shell in the original, felt like they were included with the actual levels in mind. The coin emphasis breathed new life into the obsolete high score system and gave a few new gimmicks to have fun with. The coop was better than NSMB's competitive mode and Coin Rush is a far better feature than some recycled minigames from Super Mario 64 DS. And sure, the bosses were Koopalings again, but considering how the original NSMB featured a larger than average goomba as a boss, this was at least a step in the right direction!

Then I went to Metacritic, and saw the horrible truth. Just because it was a well made game with loads of content and some new ideas to top off what was otherwise a trip back to the old days, that didn't make it a good game. NSMB2 was a boring game with no soul with no imagination. And I am ashamed of having played and enjoyed it far more than the prestigious DS iteration, which was totally GOTY material.

If sales show quality, I'm sure you'll agree that Wii Fit is a better game than The Last of Us?

If there's a game that isn't over or undarrated that game is The Order. There's no consensus, therefore it stays in the middle of the fire. So IMO it's one fairly scored game letting people actually know what it is about and know why it has the average it has. Many many games of the 7th gen that received 90 or above end up being terrible for me because they don't meet my criteria and i DIDN'T BOTHER KNOWING WHAT THE GAME WAS ABOUT BEFORE BUYING IT. This score for The Order at least stimulates some homework first and exercise your mind and your wallet into knowing if its worth your time and money. Gimme more 60-70/100 games so i won't fall in the generic high score trap and buy any shit game critics want me to buy so that I may get disappointed. You see the message?

I agree. Reviews on the order have been clealy unfair. As for user reviews its nothing new. Everyone wants to make a difference and the best way is to give it max or min score. Both are trolls though, but the min ones are the ones provoking.
I have personally stopped caring about review scores ever since the beggining of last gen and to be honest most commercial reviews themselves. Why? Becase its rigged. To earn a good score you dont need to only make a good game, you must conform to the reviewers tastes. Reviews scores are quite honestly a joke, and we dont need them. I dont understand the need to slap a number into a game like there is any mathematical way to do it.
Even on my personal ranking i keep struggling to make a fair acessment when its much easier to say wether i liked the game, or didnt and why. That simple. I really dont care about contrived scales.

So, how do you account for Kameo getting a 79% Metacritic score?  A new IP that came out on the Xbox 360 within the first year.

Or Ryse: Son of Rome, which while it received a poorer Metacritic score, seems to have been received by the media much better than The Order has?

But that was not really smart wasnt it?

I mean how...  "random arbitrary number" >  "you liking the game so far" especially when you liked the game BEFORE you saw the scores.

interested to take a look myself,hard to believe it is a 2/10 game,must be unplayable by that score,wonder what ready at dawn have been doing

Wait!  Rol is a girl?

So spake the Playstation Prophet. I guess at least everyone knows where you're coming from and can interpret your posts accordingly.

But really thought this thread would be more than just a complaint about the Review scores for The Order.

There are reviewers who have been somewhat hard on the game who I respect. Though those reviewers have given scores in the 6-7 range not the 2-4 range. But still, they had a lot more than the game length as legitimate personal criticisms of the game. Some of what they describe as faults in the game design sound pretty annoying to me. I expect that over all I will like the game but I am expecting to think of the game as being a 6.5-7.5 game myself, and not just because of length.

You fell into the Rol trap. You've been around long enough to know better.