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Faxanadu on 14 October 2009

Coool, I can see Super Mario Galaxy on that chart!!!!



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Killy_Vorkosigan on 14 October 2009

very good job OP



nuninhuh on 14 October 2009

thats not galaxy :P its brawl...

@OP, excelent work! i wonder why no one remembered before to the same... That most certainly explains a lot of things. Could you please try with a diferent kind of graphic, istead of a linear correlation do a polinomial or logarithmic correlations, maybe it would give R closer to 1.



09tarheel on 14 October 2009

Thanks for the compliments guys. I had thought about doing something more in depth, like using a larger sample size, but wanted to see if there would be any interest before I spend more time on it.



mike_intellivision on 14 October 2009
Hephaestos said:
you should have removed the outliers from your top 300 list.... there it seems you managed to get wii fit and wii play.... two badly reviewed games that skew the wii graph...

While you can make a case for removing outliers (if you can define them as such), this particular arguement does not hold much water.

While Wii Play is medicore (61%), Wii Fit's metascore (81%) is on par with de Blob and Klonoa.

 

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famousringo on 14 October 2009

Well, no surprises here.



"The worst part about these reviews is they are [subjective]--and their scores often depend on how drunk you got the media at a Street Fighter event."  — Mona Hamilton, Capcom Senior VP of Marketing
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09tarheel on 14 October 2009

@Mike, your right, the games certainly aren't outliers based on their review scores, so it doesn't seem fair to exclude them.