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Should console-exclusive sites be allowed on Metacritic?

Yes 31 63.27%
 
No 18 36.73%
 
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Lucca on 27 March 2018
Cerebralbore101 said:
Jranation said:
They should remove the ones that give it for "Click bait"

Yep. This is why I use Opencritic. I can use my own personal settings to "ban" clickbait sites like Slant, and Metro. 

Slant Magazine's scores are ridiculous. These are some crazy scores I found only looking through the first page:

Far Cry 5
Slant's Score: 50
Metascore: 81

Sea of Thieves
Slant's Score: 40
Metascore: 70

Ni No Kuni II
Slant's Score: 50
Metascore: 86

Yakuza 6: The Song of Life
Slant's Score: 60
Metascore: 83

Kingdom Come: Deliverance
Slant's Score: 20
Metascore: 76

Radiant Historia: Perfect Chronology
Slant's Score: 60
Metascore: 84

Monster Hunter World
Slant's Score: 70
Metascore: 90

All of this was only on the front page of their game reviews. On OpenCritic, they usually score 10.71 points below the average. It doesn't take a genius to see that they don't score based on game quality but on how many clicks they can gather.



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Xen on 27 March 2018

Lol, Kingdom Come Deliverance - 20...



pitzy272 on 27 March 2018
Azzanation said:
pitzy272 said:

It doesn’t take a 10 to make a review an outlier when a game gets such a low score (e.g. SoT). That Xbox score is 8 points higher than any other score and 19 points higher than the average (which will surely drop several more points, likely down to around 66). 

8 out of 18 Reviewers gave the game a higher score than average yet you are going to complain about the Xbox bias sites? I personally played the game and I think the game is an 8/10 and I can see other sites loving the game while others will hate it. I don't see your point here. You want them to give the game a lower score on purpose? Isn't that what opinions are for? Maybe those Xbox sites love Sea of Thieves just like the other 6 sites rating it higher than average.

What are you talking about? I’m not complaining; your argument just didn’t make sense. Giving something a 10/10 isn’t the only way to inflate a score when a game’s aggregate score is 70. But I’m not gonna argue about it. It’s obvious, and everyone else sees it. It’s just that we have little doubt similar things have been done by PS and Ninty sites as well. Not sure why you’re choosing to play ignorant. 

And for the record, if you say you would give SoT an 8/10, why did you give it a 10/10 on metacritic?



Lucca on 27 March 2018
pitzy272 said:
Azzanation said:

8 out of 18 Reviewers gave the game a higher score than average yet you are going to complain about the Xbox bias sites? I personally played the game and I think the game is an 8/10 and I can see other sites loving the game while others will hate it. I don't see your point here. You want them to give the game a lower score on purpose? Isn't that what opinions are for? Maybe those Xbox sites love Sea of Thieves just like the other 6 sites rating it higher than average.

What are you talking about? I’m not complaining; your argument just didn’t make sense. Giving something a 10/10 isn’t the only way to inflate a score when a game’s aggregate score is 70. But I’m not gonna argue about it. It’s obvious, and everyone else sees it. It’s just that we have little doubt similar things have been done by PS and Ninty sites as well. Not sure why you’re choosing to play ignorant. 

And for the record, if you say you would give SoT an 8/10, why did you give it a 10/10 on metacritic?

Actually, all the 10/10s that he gave to the Microsoft exclusives is baffling. And it's impossible to see all his scores, but he gave a 0/10 to Street Fighter V Arcade Edition, a game that coincidentally is a PS4 console exclusive.



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Azzanation on 27 March 2018
pitzy272 said:
Azzanation said:

8 out of 18 Reviewers gave the game a higher score than average yet you are going to complain about the Xbox bias sites? I personally played the game and I think the game is an 8/10 and I can see other sites loving the game while others will hate it. I don't see your point here. You want them to give the game a lower score on purpose? Isn't that what opinions are for? Maybe those Xbox sites love Sea of Thieves just like the other 6 sites rating it higher than average.

What are you talking about? I’m not complaining; your argument just didn’t make sense. Giving something a 10/10 isn’t the only way to inflate a score when a game’s aggregate score is 70. But I’m not gonna argue about it. It’s obvious, and everyone else sees it. It’s just that we have little doubt similar things have been done by PS and Ninty sites as well. Not sure why you’re choosing to play ignorant. 

And for the record, if you say you would give SoT an 8/10, why did you give it a 10/10 on metacritic?

Of course you can slightly increase the score same way sites slightly reduce the score. There opinions.

Also my personal review is a 8/10, the 10/10 was due to the amount of 0/10 the game is getting. Never go by User Scores, its a stupid system that does not work.

The game is getting mixed scores and some high scores which aren't all Xbox scores which shows variety, if it was only the Xbox sites giving the game high scores I would step up and say its misleading however guess what? There are others that actually like the game. There are many out there enjoying the game just like the many who are playing it right now. 

I believe many in here just wish hate on the game and want nothing but poor scores, many who haven't actually played the game. 

Modern gamer - The Metacritic is more important than the actual games themselves.



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Azzanation on 27 March 2018
LuccaCardoso1 said:
pitzy272 said:

What are you talking about? I’m not complaining; your argument just didn’t make sense. Giving something a 10/10 isn’t the only way to inflate a score when a game’s aggregate score is 70. But I’m not gonna argue about it. It’s obvious, and everyone else sees it. It’s just that we have little doubt similar things have been done by PS and Ninty sites as well. Not sure why you’re choosing to play ignorant. 

And for the record, if you say you would give SoT an 8/10, why did you give it a 10/10 on metacritic?

Actually, all the 10/10s that he gave to the Microsoft exclusives is baffling. And it's impossible to see all his scores, but he gave a 0/10 to Street Fighter V Arcade Edition, a game that coincidentally is a PS4 console exclusive.

Umm WTF? I own SFV.. 



Lucca on 27 March 2018
Azzanation said:
pitzy272 said:

What are you talking about? I’m not complaining; your argument just didn’t make sense. Giving something a 10/10 isn’t the only way to inflate a score when a game’s aggregate score is 70. But I’m not gonna argue about it. It’s obvious, and everyone else sees it. It’s just that we have little doubt similar things have been done by PS and Ninty sites as well. Not sure why you’re choosing to play ignorant. 

And for the record, if you say you would give SoT an 8/10, why did you give it a 10/10 on metacritic?

Of course you can slightly increase the score same way sites slightly reduce the score. There opinions.

Also my personal review is a 8/10, the 10/10 was due to the amount of 0/10 the game is getting. Never go by User Scores, its a stupid system that does not work.

The game is getting mixed scores and some high scores which aren't all Xbox scores which shows variety, if it was only the Xbox sites giving the game high scores I would step up and say its misleading however guess what? There are others that actually like the game. There are many out there enjoying the game just like the many who are playing it right now. 

I believe many in here just wish hate on the game and want nothing but poor scores, many who haven't actually played the game. 

Modern gamer - The Metacritic is more important than the actual games themselves.

So what the game was getting a lot of 0/10? You're supposed to give the score you think the game deserves, not give a 10/10 to raise the user score. You're the kind of person that ruins the user score.

"Never go by User Scores, its a stupid system that does not work."

Well, that's ironic. It's like if you punctured a car's tire on purpose and started complaining that the tire is punctured.



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Lucca on 27 March 2018
Azzanation said:
LuccaCardoso1 said:

Actually, all the 10/10s that he gave to the Microsoft exclusives is baffling. And it's impossible to see all his scores, but he gave a 0/10 to Street Fighter V Arcade Edition, a game that coincidentally is a PS4 console exclusive.

Umm WTF? I own SFV.. 

I didn't say you don't own SFV. I just said that it's weird that you give 10/10s to Microsoft exclusives and 0/10s to PS4 console exclusives. A game has to be completely broken and unplayable to deserve a 0/10.



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Azzanation on 27 March 2018
LuccaCardoso1 said:
Azzanation said:

Of course you can slightly increase the score same way sites slightly reduce the score. There opinions.

Also my personal review is a 8/10, the 10/10 was due to the amount of 0/10 the game is getting. Never go by User Scores, its a stupid system that does not work.

The game is getting mixed scores and some high scores which aren't all Xbox scores which shows variety, if it was only the Xbox sites giving the game high scores I would step up and say its misleading however guess what? There are others that actually like the game. There are many out there enjoying the game just like the many who are playing it right now. 

I believe many in here just wish hate on the game and want nothing but poor scores, many who haven't actually played the game. 

Modern gamer - The Metacritic is more important than the actual games themselves.

So what the game was getting a lot of 0/10? You're supposed to give the score you think the game deserves, not give a 10/10 to raise the user score. You're the kind of person that ruins the user score.

"Never go by User Scores, its a stupid system that does not work."

Well, that's ironic. It's like if you punctured a car's tire on purpose and started complaining that the tire is punctured.

I don't give a damn about User scores, I did it for the laughs. Gamers wanted to give it 0 so I said stuff it. User scores have been a joke for a very long time and its time gamers start to realise that.

LuccaCardoso1 said:
Azzanation said:

Umm WTF? I own SFV.. 

I didn't say you don't own SFV. I just said that it's weird that you give 10/10s to Microsoft exclusives and 0/10s to PS4 console exclusives. A game has to be completely broken and unplayable to deserve a 0/10.

So you are assuming I hated on SFV because its a PS4 title? For one its a Capcon title not a Sony title, 2nd I own it and I disliked it. I played less than an hour and haven't gone back. Same for No Mans Sky. Lucky for No Mans Sky I haven't reviewed. 

Personal opinion, I am loving SoTs, I am playing it right now, SFV was a forgotten $79.

I only rate the games I played mate.



ArchangelMadzz on 27 March 2018

Every console has them. But I'm gonna say no, it seems a bit.. yeah I wouldn't allow them.



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