Very few games get 50 or below so it's quite hard to consider it average. Average is the type of game that you would like to play unless you have several must have still waiting on your backlog, not a game that you don't want to even try.

You must be new to this gaming thing.  The problem is a matter of perspective.  For example, there is a website that litterally scores based on 5 being average and 6 being abover ave, and so on up to 10.  The problem here is their score is added to metacritic, where a 7 is a ave/good game and so on, and drags thay score down.  Guess what, your way of thinking just kept you from enjoying a game you may have liked

because you are closed minded from lack of knowledge regarding how flawed the media is.

Then look at some of the overrated games out there.  Final Fantasy 13 had graphics and...yeah that it.  It had crappy plot, boring characters, and was fsr too linear for its own good.  Not to mention that horride battle system where you just mash autofight for 90% of all encounters.  BUT it got an 83 on metacritic so it MUST be at least decent right?  And here is a game you would buy and then be let down due to you lack of knowledge about how gaming media works.

Heck what youpropsose does not even make any sense.  If an 8 is average  why bother having 10 numbers?  A five star system would be more accurate on that case.  In the old days, 7 was (and still is) a good score.  6 is fair and might be worth playing to some  though a pass for most.  5 is horrible and anything below that is just a degree of how broken the game is.

So in the end, you are only limiting yourself by having such a closed minded view on review scores.  Just because you think a number means something does not mean the reviewer feels the same way, and that is the problem.  In a review based on what the reviewer believes your opinion on what the score means is absolutely worthless.  Think about that for a minute and let that sink in.

Yeah and it's all down to reviewers lol, it's weird how differently games are scored on Metacritic as opposed to films... seems like I see more films hovering around the 50 region that are considered average, whereas with games anything below 75 for some people is considered utter trash, there are even those who won't even touch a game if it scores below 80, which I find a little absurd, they could be missing out on some really great games, you don't always have to agree with reviewers, lol. The way games are reviewed is something I really disagree with, and it's also why I very rarely look to reviews to determine whether I want to buy a game or not :P 

But that's literally only one person- the OP.

Read some of the replies.

I agree with you and would be totally ok with the score using the full scale more often... but for games they score like if it at least can be played it already get over 50 on metacritic....

The gaming score seems like the dance of famous on Brazil TV or the Carnival where the minimal acceptable score is 95 (only total catastrophic get as low as 80) and even 99 isn't very much liked.

I have read, you should as well, and won't be a single person.

So in your eyes the very small minority is the consensus rather than the very big majority that is saying otherwise......okayyyy 

Nope, in my eyes you claim only OP said it, but more said, where you lying then? And again as originally said on the other thread what WAS the consensus not what currently is.