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What will be the final Metacritic score Average?

>94 14 9.66%
 
90-94 48 33.10%
 
85-89 68 46.90%
 
80-84 13 8.97%
 
75-79 0 0%
 
70-74 2 1.38%
 
<70 0 0%
 
Total:145
Cerebralbore101 on 04 September 2018
shikamaru317 said:
deskpro2k3 said:
Similar words but the scores is all over the place. This is bullshit.

"Marvel’s Spider-Man is the best game you will play this year" - 100
DarkStation

"This feels like the most authentic Spider-Man game" - 90
The Daily Dot

"best Spider-Man game to date" - 80
We Got This Covered

"The best Spider-Man game ever made" - 70
Metro GameCentral

"This game shows tremendous love for all things Spider-Man" - 60
Guardian

My guess would be that the Daily Dot and We Got This Covered critics played Spider-Man 2, and liked Spider-Man PS4 more than Spider-man 2. The Metro critic can't possibly have played Spider-Man 2 if they think that a 70 is the best Spider-Man game, must be comparing it to the recent Beenox Spider-Man games. 

The Guardian is a newspaper, and they hired out Rick Lane, a freelance writer to do the review. A quick view of his profile on Opencritic shows that he hates almost everything. http://opencritic.com/critic/767/rick-lane He reviews 25 points lower than the average critic. He's a clickbait reviewer. 

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mjk45 on 04 September 2018
CGI-Quality said:
I still say the hype was proportionate to the words of the reviewers (people often focus on numbers versus the actual text - much why I say the numerics should go). An example of something that promised more than it delivered was No Man’s Sky. In Spider-Man’s case, arguing for overhype, based on 3, 4, or 5 points is just silly. 87 is a very high grade, but far more importantly, the game has delivered. Thus, it received a proportionate amount of excitement.

Another thing to look at is the sheer number of reviews a title gets, the larger the volume the  likelihood of the score dropping increases.



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DonFerrari on 04 September 2018
deskpro2k3 said:
Similar words but the scores is all over the place. This is bullshit.

"Marvel’s Spider-Man is the best game you will play this year" - 100
DarkStation

"This feels like the most authentic Spider-Man game" - 90
The Daily Dot

"best Spider-Man game to date" - 80
We Got This Covered

"The best Spider-Man game ever made" - 70
Metro GameCentral

"This game shows tremendous love for all things Spider-Man" - 60
Guardian

Seems ridiculous that they can think the best game ever made deserves a 70 unless they think everything else is trash.. and that all the love for spider deserves a 60 do they hate it?



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

Cerebralbore101 on 04 September 2018
DonFerrari said:
deskpro2k3 said:
Similar words but the scores is all over the place. This is bullshit.

"Marvel’s Spider-Man is the best game you will play this year" - 100
DarkStation

"This feels like the most authentic Spider-Man game" - 90
The Daily Dot

"best Spider-Man game to date" - 80
We Got This Covered

"The best Spider-Man game ever made" - 70
Metro GameCentral

"This game shows tremendous love for all things Spider-Man" - 60
Guardian

Seems ridiculous that they can think the best game ever made deserves a 70 unless they think everything else is trash.. and that all the love for spider deserves a 60 do they hate it?

When someone reviews a game at the Guardian they have to give it either 1 Star, 2 Stars, 3 Stars, 4 Stars, or 5 Stars. If you told that paper's editor that there was such a thing as a score of 3.5 Stars, or 4.5 Stars his head would explode. 

PwerlvlAmy said: 
I think people just need to accept that not all game reviewers think the game is the best ever and that some of them are going to disagree and give it a lower score. Not everything can be 9's and 10's and just because it doesn't match the score you personally give it,does not negate that reviewers score that put it lower. 87 is a great score and shouldn't be frowned upon at all. Everyone go out and buy the game, regardless of any reviews

I can live with a 70 or 80. That's fine. Hell, I can live with a 60, a 50, or a 01. So long as said reviewer isn't a whopping 25 points away from the general consensus of the game. 

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DonFerrari on 04 September 2018
Cerebralbore101 said:
DonFerrari said:

Seems ridiculous that they can think the best game ever made deserves a 70 unless they think everything else is trash.. and that all the love for spider deserves a 60 do they hate it?

When someone reviews a game at the Guardian they have to give it either 1 Star, 2 Stars, 3 Stars, 4 Stars, or 5 Stars. If you told that paper's editor that there was such a thing as a score of 3.5 Stars, or 4.5 Stars his head would explode. 

Then give it a 4 star if it really gives that much love.



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

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zorg1000 on 04 September 2018

Looks like this game is merely great, rather than amazing



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Intrinsic on 04 September 2018

Wait.... So this is a bad game now cause its not in the 90s?

And what did Batman sell that this game supposedly can't outsell?



flashfire926 on 04 September 2018
DonFerrari said:
Cerebralbore101 said:

When someone reviews a game at the Guardian they have to give it either 1 Star, 2 Stars, 3 Stars, 4 Stars, or 5 Stars. If you told that paper's editor that there was such a thing as a score of 3.5 Stars, or 4.5 Stars his head would explode. 

Then give it a 4 star if it really gives that much love.

Not to take any sides, but 3 out of 5 in the  "good" in the 5 stars system, whereas when it's translated into percentage it's 60%, which is "mediocre to terrible". If this same reviewer used the percentage system, I bet he would score above 70 at least, probably in the 75-80 range.

Therfore, I don't think metacritic should accept scores that are given on a 10 point scale or lower. For example, Gamespot uses the 10 point scale (1,2,3,4, to 10,....no decimals), and if some thinks the game is deserving of, lets say, 8.5, the reviewer is forced to round to to an 8 or round up 9, higher or lower than what the reviewer actually thinks of the game.

IMO metacritic should take any reviews under the 20-point scale (1, 1.5, 2, 2.5, 3, to 10, counting by 0.5), and encourage review sites to use the 100 point scale (1.1, 1.2, 1.3, like IGN).



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The Switch will outsell 3DS (based on VGchartz numbers), according to me, while Intrinsic thinks the opposite will hold true. One month avatar control for the loser's avatar.

AngryLittleAlchemist on 04 September 2018

I will be excited to see if this can get me to like Spider-Man as someone who finds most super heroes conceptually boring.

An 87 is an incredibly big score and while there were a lot of people overhyping it it's no big deal (I think in any post Arkham world this is a pretty reasonable score).



HandofPrometheus on 04 September 2018

Looks like its setting around 87-88. My prediction was right.