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Lucca on 28 March 2018

Ideally, a totally average game should get a 50, meaning that it got 50% of everything right and 50% of everything wrong. Unfortunately, nowadays the average seems to be 60-70. Still, 81 is well above average.



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KManX89 on 28 March 2018

I'd say a 60 is hovering around average since it's below the norm for games on MC while 50s and below is below average.

Reason I say 50s is below average is because, by that metric, Transformers: the Last Knight has a barely average score on IMDb despite the fact that pretty much everyone says it's garbage and one of, if not THE worst movie of 2017.



GameOverture on 28 March 2018

You shouldn’t cancel a game you’re excited about because of metacritic. Though to be fair, I think you should never make preorders anyway, unless it’s something you need to play despite the quality.



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TheBlackNaruto on 28 March 2018
contestgamer said:
Shadow1980 said:

Still relevant:

 

Dont blame gamers, blame reviewers. Back in the early 00's (late 90s) my unofficial cuttoff (for lack of MC) was about 80 based on eyeballing scores from various magazines. Back then reviewers were a lot tougher on games. Nowadays reviewers give high scores like candy and so my cutoff has been moved to 85.

So you never played games like Legend of Dragoon, Bloody Roar, Shinobi, Dino Crisis, Jade Cocoon, Rival Schools, Legend of Legaia, Parasite Eve 2, Tomb raider 3, Lunar Silvar Star story complete, Tenchu 2, Fable 3, Unreal Championship, Devil May Cry 2 or 3, Baten Kaitos, Knockout Kings 2001, Valkyrie Profile, Need for speed Underground, Motorstorm, Darksiders 1 & 2, Shenmue 2,  InFamous 2 or inFamous Second son, Tekken 6, TTT2, Midnight Club 3, Baldurs Gate: Dark Alliance, Just Cause, Mirrors Edge, Saints Row Resident Evil Code Veronica, Lost Odyssey, Xenosaga series, Crackdown, Alan Wake, Def Jam 1 or 2,  Resident Evil 0, Luigis Mansion, Dead to Rights, Super Smash Bros 1 etc.....plus lots more games because they ALL fall below your meta criteria.....really?

Wow that is crazy my friend......you are really missing out on some great games then.



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Ajax on 28 March 2018

Pathetic



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Dgc1808 on 29 March 2018
contestgamer said:

So reviews are in and the MC for FC5 is 81 atm, and will probably fall to 79-80 once all the reviews are in. I canceled my pre-order for the game, although I was looking forward to it and it got me thinking - how many other potential sales do you think were lost over the low MC score? (lifetime, not just launch pre orders)

If I had to guess at least 1-1.5M compared to an MC of 85 (my cutoff score for playing games) If there have been any "studies" on something like this please link as I'd be interested.

Lol. That made me laugh irl.

Dude, 80 is a good score. Personally I was never buying this thing at full price because of my backlog and lack of time. Gonna wait for a cut to $30 at most.



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KManX89 on 29 March 2018
TheBlackNaruto said:
contestgamer said:

 

Dont blame gamers, blame reviewers. Back in the early 00's (late 90s) my unofficial cuttoff (for lack of MC) was about 80 based on eyeballing scores from various magazines. Back then reviewers were a lot tougher on games. Nowadays reviewers give high scores like candy and so my cutoff has been moved to 85.

So you never played games like Legend of Dragoon, Bloody Roar, Shinobi, Dino Crisis, Jade Cocoon, Rival Schools, Legend of Legaia, Parasite Eve 2, Tomb raider 3, Lunar Silvar Star story complete, Tenchu 2, Fable 3, Unreal Championship, Devil May Cry 2 or 3, Baten Kaitos, Knockout Kings 2001, Valkyrie Profile, Need for speed Underground, Motorstorm, Darksiders 1 & 2, Shenmue 2,  InFamous 2 or inFamous Second son, Tekken 6, TTT2, Midnight Club 3, Baldurs Gate: Dark Alliance, Just Cause, Mirrors Edge, Saints Row Resident Evil Code Veronica, Lost Odyssey, Xenosaga series, Crackdown, Alan Wake, Def Jam 1 or 2,  Resident Evil 0, Luigis Mansion, Dead to Rights, Super Smash Bros 1 etc.....plus lots more games because they ALL fall below your meta criteria.....really?

Wow that is crazy my friend......you are really missing out on some great games then.

This.

He clearly doesn't know what "low" is. An 81 is not low by any metric.



TheBlackNaruto on 29 March 2018
KManX89 said:
TheBlackNaruto said:

So you never played games like Legend of Dragoon, Bloody Roar, Shinobi, Dino Crisis, Jade Cocoon, Rival Schools, Legend of Legaia, Parasite Eve 2, Tomb raider 3, Lunar Silvar Star story complete, Tenchu 2, Fable 3, Unreal Championship, Devil May Cry 2 or 3, Baten Kaitos, Knockout Kings 2001, Valkyrie Profile, Need for speed Underground, Motorstorm, Darksiders 1 & 2, Shenmue 2,  InFamous 2 or inFamous Second son, Tekken 6, TTT2, Midnight Club 3, Baldurs Gate: Dark Alliance, Just Cause, Mirrors Edge, Saints Row Resident Evil Code Veronica, Lost Odyssey, Xenosaga series, Crackdown, Alan Wake, Def Jam 1 or 2,  Resident Evil 0, Luigis Mansion, Dead to Rights, Super Smash Bros 1 etc.....plus lots more games because they ALL fall below your meta criteria.....really?

Wow that is crazy my friend......you are really missing out on some great games then.

This.

He clearly doesn't know what "low" is. An 81 is not low by any metric.

Not low at all!



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contestgamer on 30 March 2018
Xen said:
contestgamer said:

I am the OP...

Indeed you are. That's why I told you that that comparison is not so good

Its the same thing, I'm using an average score (data) to make a purchase determination. For hotels 85, for food 4-4.5 and for games 85. It's the exact same system, just using a different site for market specific review averages.



VGPolyglot on 30 March 2018
contestgamer said:
Xen said:

Indeed you are. That's why I told you that that comparison is not so good

Its the same thing, I'm using an average score (data) to make a purchase determination. For hotels 85, for food 4-4.5 and for games 85. It's the exact same system, just using a different site for market specific review averages.

As I said though, games are different than those as unsanitary food and hotels can get you sick, but video games don't have those issues.