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Forums - Nintendo - Codename: S.T.E.A.M has a metacritic of 71.

The low scores probably cancel out the overly high scores. And besides 7/10 is good.



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Polygon should lose its Metacritic status for publishing such a review. It's one thing to be pretentious dicks, it's another thing to be unethical. And no, disclosing it does not make it ok.

I also think the green on Metacritic for games should start at 70 not 75.  It starts at 70 for movies, why do games have a more strict standard? 



RolStoppable said:
Nuvendil said:

Polygon should lose its Metacritic status for publishing such a review. It's one thing to be pretentious dicks, it's another thing to be unethical. And no, disclosing it does not make it ok.

I also think the green on Metacritic for games should start at 70 not 75.  It starts at 70 for movies, why do games have a more strict standard? 

Because game reviewers have had less strict standards for the longest time.

While I generally agree, games rated seven usually aren't of mediocre quality.  But that might just be my experience.  The more important issue that needs fixing is the lack of a standard for "average" in scores.  As it stands, some sites have it at 5, others at 6, and still others at 7, which makes combining them into one score a crap shoot at best.  If the major sites would all say "ok, 5 is average from here on" or 6 or whatever, it would help balanced things out a good bit. 



Polygon is just pathetic how can they release the review without even finishing the game? They should be banned from metacritic site for 6 months



Polygon proves time and time again what a horrible site it is. Not finishing games for their reviews, Clickbait articles, pathetic.



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Tachikoma said:
kotaku needs to go die in a fire, their agendas and sister sites included.

Then I will pee on the ashes.

Wrong thread? I don't see a Kotaku review on Meta. With this strong response I'm pretty curious now which thread this was intended for.



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Too bad, I was hoping this would be good. Oh well one less game for me to worry about.



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Mnementh said:
Tachikoma said:
kotaku needs to go die in a fire, their agendas and sister sites included.

Then I will pee on the ashes.

Wrong thread? I don't see a Kotaku review on Meta. With this strong response I'm pretty curious now which thread this was intended for.

Nope, its pretty much this, Polygon is the spawn of Kotaku, and thus is Kotaku.



Tachikoma said:
Mnementh said:
Tachikoma said:
kotaku needs to go die in a fire, their agendas and sister sites included.

Then I will pee on the ashes.

Wrong thread? I don't see a Kotaku review on Meta. With this strong response I'm pretty curious now which thread this was intended for.

Nope, its pretty much this, Polygon is the spawn of Kotaku, and thus is Kotaku.

Ah, I didn't know Polygon is associated with Kotaku. Still, seems a pretty strong response for a random bad review.



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sc94597 said:
When a game has a review score in the low 70's it tells me a few things.

1. The game probably doesn't have bugs or huge faults which will detract too much from the desired experience presented.

2. It is a game that some people like a lot and other people don't like much at all.

So yeah, I don't mind a score in the 70's for a game I know will be love/hate depending on the reviewers value placed on the gameplay. Anything lower, and I read for the objective faults (bugs, poor controls, etc.) Anything more and I'll consider a game in a genre which I'm not a big fan of, but might want to get into.

I agree. The style of this game (graphics and gameplay) is hit or miss. I love it, but can see why other don't. The fact that there's no bugs that make the game unplayable is the only convincing I needed to give it a go...

... when it is released here in May



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