the Ps3 Casltevania is a PS1 port no? No achievements or upscaled grpahics... I could be wrong though.

Shadow complex was amazing at first, but the game becomes too easy and the art direction is non existant... It ends very non-climactic too.

Its like a really good looking and playing junk food. If Casltevania SOTN is 89, this shouldn't be in the same realm. Music alone in SOTN needs to get 89 :)

i kinda agree , it was exploration at first, then you get all these powers and armor. and it turns out into an easy Metroid game.

though i liked it, since i miss that type of games, it was more of a fresh air.

in music/level variety/artstyle there is no comparision between the two. Castlevania wins easily.

oh and yes that Castlevania is the PS1 port. there is no difference between the XBLA and PSN one except Achievments on Xbox, and being able to play it on PSP on PS3.

all PS1/PS2 games get upscaled on PS3 btw

Lost Painting is a true masterpiece. One of the best OSTs in a game ever.

Wait are you telling me Xbox has more games than PS3? You have to be kidding me. /sarcasm
Look at that list, there are only a couple worth mentioning. Compare 89,88,and 87s, PS3 - 19, Xbox360 - 23. 4 Games, oh no!

Read the opening post, he doesn't even mention the PS3 other than saying he's usually one of its bigger supporters.  Please don't bring the console war into this thread if it doesn't need to be there.

My favorite games (or most of them) aren't among those 12, which tells me just how unimportant these metacritic scores are.

All of them truly great games.

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Burnout Revenge is different from the las gen version in several ways. Enough for me to buy it again.

Lol...you win the "most self indulging post of the day" award. Games don't appeal to ME...therefore they are not important!

I think Shadow Complex is better than a lot of $60 retail releases, for a $15 game, it is AAA.

Erhhh, no it just made me realize two things. I like some games that have low scores, for good reasons because there are some big flaws but they are still incredibly fun.

1. Scores don't matter at all.

I also happen to like some games that got great reviews but because a couple of ''haters'' or ''extreemly critical'' people gave it an 7.5 those games that also got many 9.5s suddenly get taken down from 89 average list.

2. Metacritic scores are unimportant because they also count reviews that mention flaws you haven't noticed or simply don't see as flaws.

So I was using my own experience to make a statement about metacritic scores, but aren't we all talking about our own experience here? None of us can be considered the ''average gamer'' for the simple fact that we participate on this site. We don't know what others might think so I thought it would be useful to explain what my ''metacritic scores are unimportant'' comment was based on. I can't be sure ofcourse if others feel the same but when it is obvious we are not talking about facts then I don't think it isn't necesary to add ''imo'' before everything we say.

EDIT: WHat I'm trying to say is that up until know I always thought metacritic scores were important but I realized that individual reviews are far more important because you can see how the score was decided. Where as the metacritic averages are based on reviews that might look at gaming from a compleetly different point of view.