again, variety didn't give resistance 70.. and it didn't give gears of war above 90.. metacritic did, on behalf of variety

who the f@ck cares about the scores! LOL! enough with this crap

Sad very sad. Lol with all thats going on in the world people go out and think they find reason why GAMES(of all things) are not doing so well as they first thought they should be. Have you ever thought that maybe you guys just over hype things to much and set yourselfs up for this. I have noticed how many pro sony people hype there exclusives way to much to almost the point that there is no way the game can live upto your goals. At the end of the day one bad score will not bring teh avergae down more than 1 or 2% at most. One more thing have people ever thought that games have to be judged on the type of games that they there meaning there are many great shooters out there so to get a high score you really have to STAND out from the pack. While a game that doesnt have as much comp doesnt need to produce that extra something to stand out. Not sure if I explained that well or not lol. Anyway Conspiracy over game reviews is just stupid.

 Variety can think whatever they want, honestly I just stopped caring. Metacritic has always been a joke in my opinion. I have stated this for quite some time now. They can't even distinguish the difference between an A and an A+. This goes for games on all consoles. The only thing they are consistent in is being wrong. Dead give away for me was when 1UP said in an article "We rated Fable II an A and somehow Metacritic translated that into a 100". Do you need to think any further?

They should just fade away.

As I said plenty of times. You want mainly high profile gaming site review averages? Go to Gamerankings. When have you heard anyone bitch about them? They also get the number grading right. Metacritic supposedly rates their letter system from 0-100, meaning pretty much 8 points per letter grade (F-A+ I believe, 13 grades right? Somewhere around 7.69 per grade). Now why does B- to C+ range 12 points? Easy, to cover up for the A and A+ rating laziness. It is not between these 2 grades either, you will see plenty of them being seperated by more than they should be due to them idiotically assuming an A and an A+ = same exact score.  *facepalm*

Do you want more than just those high profile game sites? Do you want them all and not just a pick and choose basis where a blog gets in but some other sites do not? Go to N4G. They leave nothing out.

There are 2 much better choices.

All my opinion, so relax if someone has some response of epic proportions.

 Agreed, I have personally got myself caught up in all that stuff plenty of time before. Although please understand, not everyone thinks the way you do. Plenty of people use these as a reference to insure their money is spent more wisely, not everyone can just go out on game spending sprees. Some of us can buy a game every couple of months if we they are lucky.

If people do put their trust into these sites, the least these sites can do is well... do it right. We have 12 year olds on this site who can figure out the letter system and how to properly average scores yet we have a "professional" site that has their heads up their asses.

*Both of my posts so far have nothing against Variety, it is Metacritic only.

not sure how much of that was directed at me.. but i in large agree.. the only time i look at metacritic scores is when someone here links to them for bitching purposes.. i've said it in a few previous threads, it'd be a better gaming world if they just cut out quantifying their opinions, and let people read and come to their own conclusion about what is important to them.. 

seriously.. a reviewer can complain about a b and c, and praise d e and f.. who are they to say which aspect is the most important, and how they should effect the overall numeric score.. that comes down to the individual.. people should read it and think either "well.. i'm not really getting the game for the purposes of a b and c.. so i think i'll still love it" or "d e and f aren't really that important to me, i'll give it a miss"

Like the variety review for super mario galaxy .. it is a complete joke.. but i could still read through it and think with my own head "ok.. their complaints aren't important to what i'm hoping to get out of this game".. thats why despite their clear inability to play and review games well, they are still among the better reviewers, because they allow the user to make judgement of how good a game is, not themselves

 LOL. Actually I don't think I was trying to quote anyone on that post.

Yeah they are Microsoft biased, so they gave Too Human 3.
Its all a conspiracy, poor Sony bad Microsoft.

Seriously...is N4G trying to look ridiculous???

Variety a subsidiary of Microsoft? Do they even know what that means?

This is the most ridiculous article I've ever read. It refers to a distribution partnership between MSN & Variety. To publish Variety content on the MSN network. There may be more to this partnership down the road but as far as the press release goes that's all there is to it.

And just LOL at all the conspiracy theories in this thread.

Well that's not very fair at all....