If that's the way then it's not right because critics are harsher now.

The Wiimote died before the Wii U. The Wii U died because it was the Wii U.

Nintendo also had their most embarrassing sales fall with the Wii. It wasn't sustainable. Nobody likes the Wiimote anymore. Nintendo did the equivalent of Activision stopping production of Guitar Hero games after people stopped buying them. And then making the Wii U. There's no real proper analogy to that.

All geniuses are.

I agree that it's a little silly that 74/100 is not considered good.

Founder of OpenCritic here...

First, SF0 has 72/100

We have this on OpenCritic so that we can settle the "what is a good score?" debate once and for all. The average score across all games that are reviewed is roughly 74/100.

So Star Fox Zero is below average when compared to all other games reviewed.

The main caveat is the massive selection bias. The reality is that truly awful games just don't get reviewed. There are a whole bunch of games deserving of 1/10 and 2/10. But the reality is that they don't market themselves, don't distribute review copies effectively, etc.

But... There are roughly 70 games that have higher review scores that have come out in 2016 alone, and over 300 if you start to include 2015. If you were someone that just went in order based on review scores, and you played 1 game every couple of days, you might not ever get to Star Fox Zero.

I don't say this to discourage you guys from playing - "good" and "bad" are completely subjective, and I can't know for you. I'm personally going to go see the next Star Wars movie because I love Star Wars, and the reviews don't change that.

Thanks for all that info. 

I actually wasn't referring to OpenCritic in my statement. I just meant that I thought it was silly how on MetaCritic, if a game gets a 74/100, it's yellow, meaning ''mixed scores." To me, a 74/100 indicates generally favorable scores. 

What you said about how 74 being the average is interesting though. It is a shame that different review sites use different scales in their reviews so it's difficult to consolidate them all. For example, IGN uses a scale where a 6.0 is 'Okay', 7.0 is 'Good', 8.0 is 'Great' and 9.0 is 'Amazing.' Most other sites would scale a 6.0 as being bad, not okay, so it's not clear how to compare the two. I do appreciate your efforts to try and accomplish this however. 

This game never excited me, so this score doesn't surprise me.

I tend to agree with this. In Japan they actually do bundle the Wii U with a Wiimote too ... sales never really saw a boost from that, and including the Wiimote in the Wii U was kinda pointless because everyone already has 1-2 of them. 

None of Nintendo's control gimmicks really have held up. Anyone dying to use the Wii Fit scale these scales? *crickets* 

Okey, that's interesting. I think that the sentence "SF:Zero is in the bottom 48,2% of games scored on OpenCritic" is a good measure for a comprehensive review method. What I was wonderfing about OC method is the sentence that says: "38% of reviewers recommend this game" or something like that. This percentage is based on the actual score (<75 is considered a "not recommended" review, for example) or is it based on actually reading the reviews and evaluating if the review is negative or positive? I think that percentage is misleading, since a 7/10 review from a certain site could be positive, and another 7/10 review from a different site could be negative. I'd even say that reviews are harsher nowadays, so, for example, the limits that Metacritic puts to say if a game has "mixed or average" reviews or "generally positive reviews" is too high. (75 is the limit, I think). It'd be interesting to have data about how reviews scores lowered in the past/new gen. I'm almost entirely sure about that.

I fully agree on what you said, good and bad are subjective, and nowadays we have enough info to know if we'll like the game/movie/whatever. But I like to discuss about reviews nevertheless! :P

about what i expected, 7's range as the score average

cant wait for tomorrow,hyped