yea u are right, gamerankings IMO does have a better system than metacritic, especially with the letter grades. Also, from wat I've seen, they dont have reviews from random sites like Variety hating on LBP and R2. It seems like they actually only take gaming sites into consideration.

Gamerankings seems to use the more reputable sites for their averages. If I wanted anymore than that i would go to N4G, they do not just pick and choose like Metacritic, they just add in every score released. I believe even N4G does the letter grading more professionally than Metacritic as well.

I do not know why everyone goes by Metacritic. What started that whole metacritic thing?

exactly,,,,metacritics chooses their sources inwhich they could easily manipulate the metascore,,,but in N4g as long as it's not from a blog(and it's from a website)it will be added to the score.so no manipulation what so ever in n4g.Gamerankings also is a better source than metacritics.

for example in fable 2 metascores,metacritics has added a 100/100 from a website called level which is a blog in Czech language.(only to push fable 2 over 90)with no link in the refrence.

wait a 7? who the hell it's this people

those are the same that gave LBP a 8 =(

damn and those are are too good to be anything over 9

^ I have seriously never understood Metacritic.

It doesn't even go just for Fable II, it goes for any game that has received an A. It shows that according to Metacritic a site like 1UP gave the same exact score to a game like Fable II that they did for a game like LBP, yet LBP received and A+ and Fable II received an A.

People really need to start trusting better sites if they wish to judge their purchases on fair and consistent (Not consistently wrong) averaging sites.

It just seems that some people quote specific sites because it looks better for their console of choice and I personally would not do it this way.

It's back up to 89 after the Xplay review. I think that's the only 100 the game has gotten so far. Xplay always plays em kind of loose.

They'll also give gears 5/5.

91...

Fuck metacritic.

Valve uses Metacritic, EA uses Metacritic, im sure the big console companies use their rankings also.

Doesn't that give them legitimacy?

Some hollywood trash should not review games, they are far to ignorant to do so.