What does Metacritic color scheme have to do with it when very very very few games are below 50 and if you pull the average it's close to 70?

If the guy doesn't want to give a score then don't give. But if you are going to give, keep consistency on it.

When you are very far (half of the score) for a game then you certainly deserves scrutiny. And when you read their justifications they don't enforce a 40. Because as I said, they are basically just scoring on "how much did I like". That is no standard or coherence at all since the magazine have several different reviewers. And you can't really go and defend their totally bullocks 100 for broken games, very rare low score for good games but mixed in it a BS score for a good game can you?

I already gave you a links to the body of their work. At the end of the day they can give it the score they want to give it's suppose to be unbiased. 

http://opencritic.com/critic/577/colm-ahern

http://opencritic.com/critic/65/tyler-treese

Man If only they had a scoring policy??? To justify their 2 stars out of 5 & 4 out of 10 reviews.

4/10 - Poor Enough
More a shoddy game redeemed by a few good points rather than a decent game knocked down by a couple of subpar elements. Might contain a few bright spots, but essentially fails more than it succeeds. For every Punch Drunk Love and Wedding Singer that Adam Sandler has, he’s got far more Cobblers, Jack and Jills and Pixels.

Not sure why 1 or 2 points below 80 would make you take this decision, but ok.

I have too many games already. The backlog is real. I have to cut myself off at some point, or else I'll just wind up buying 50-60 games a year and only really getting through 24-30 of them. 

But shouldn't the cut be about games you want or not instead of hitting a minimum threshold? I would understand someone that doesn't know the game looking at sub 80 and deciding to wait, but since you know and is interested I got curious why the 1 or 2 point drop would make this a hold. Look for comments like the ones from CGI to see if the game is one that would get your attention.

Detroit is rated below Heavy Rain on metacritic. Yet, as far as I'm concerned, and that's coming from someone (like CGI) who rated Heavy Rain quite high, Detroit is a much better interactive narrative experience than Heavy Rain. So I really couldn't care less about how high (or low) its aggregate is. 

The style of Quantic Dream comes to maturity in Detroit as far as I'm concerned. 

But shouldn't the cut be about games you want or not instead of hitting a minimum threshold? I would understand someone that doesn't know the game looking at sub 80 and deciding to wait, but since you know and is interested I got curious why the 1 or 2 point drop would make this a hold. Look for comments like the ones from CGI to see if the game is one that would get your attention.

Problem is I want all the games! Well, almost all of them. 80 is my cut-off point, but I'm still interested in games that get 74-79. Sometimes even games that get below that, I"ll want to play just because of the genre, or developer.