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Cerebralbore101 on 02 December 2017
Wyrdness said:
Cerebralbore101 said:

According to metacritic their average score is 65/100. They operate on the same scale as the rest of the industry, where 7/10 is only a decent game. Yes, they might say that 5/10 is the "average", but that doesn't reflect their scoring history. But oh well. I can respect a score of 7/10. If they didn't think it was worthy of a higher score I can understand that. Everybody's different and different people respond to different pros and cons of a video game. 

Edge's scale is 5/10 equals average that's well known among people who follow their mag, 7 is good on their scale, one reason people struggle to understand Edge's scale is because they're an industry magazine not a consumer one they score aspects like music, art direction, technical achievement, innovation, audio tech, visual tech, what type of game it is and what it does for the genre etc... on top of whether the game is good to play or not. This is why most good games score 7-8/10 in Edge because they don't tick all those boxes.

Oh wow. I always thought they were a consumer magazine. Now their scores make so much more sense. 



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Lawlight on 02 December 2017

Well, well, well. Another Sony exclusive gets way lower than the average.



Lawlight on 02 December 2017
Mar1217 said:
Lawlight said:
Well, well, well. Another Sony exclusive gets way lower than the average.

CONSPIRACY I TELL YA !!

No, they’re just biased.



Goodnightmoon on 02 December 2017
Lawlight said:
Mar1217 said:

CONSPIRACY I TELL YA !!

No, they’re just biased.

Or maybe it's you the one biased



Lawlight on 02 December 2017
Goodnightmoon said:
Lawlight said:

No, they’re just biased.

Or maybe it's you the one biased

No. I’m the ones with facts.



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Goodnightmoon on 02 December 2017
Lawlight said:
Goodnightmoon said:

Or maybe it's you the one biased

No. I’m the ones with facts.

Good joke



COKTOE on 02 December 2017
Lawlight said:
Goodnightmoon said:

Or maybe it's you the one biased

No. I’m the ones with facts.

I seem to remember some charts and graphs from years ago that demonstrated that they've been scoring PS games lower not only compared to other reviewers, but lower compared to how they score games from MS and Nintendo. It's certainly something I picked up on based off of casual observation.



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Goodnightmoon on 02 December 2017
ClassicGamingWizzz said:
Goodnightmoon said:

I'm having a hard time understanding how this can be better than Xenoblade Chronicles 2 but maybe they are right

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXiruJ93N0E

They are right.

It's possible, I don't even know how the game works, is just that the first impression I had from hat video isn't great but I'm curious about it.



pokoko on 02 December 2017

I still can't figure out why people here give so much attention to EDGE.  Is it because they still do physical print?  Or some other reason?

spurgeonryan said:
Wow, they were harsh on everything this month.

Was Battlefront 2 really that bad or are people just upset about what EA did?

People where I work are raving about it.  They probably just haven't been on the internet enough to know that they're supposed to hate it.



Replicant on 03 December 2017
COKTOE said:
Lawlight said:

No. I’m the ones with facts.

I seem to remember some charts and graphs from years ago that demonstrated that they've been scoring PS games lower not only compared to other reviewers, but lower compared to how they score games from MS and Nintendo. It's certainly something I picked up on based off of casual observation.

Edge generally scores PS games a little lower but overall I see them as trustworthy.

They also clearly recommended the PS4 after the consumer-hostile reveal of the XB1.