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Only 90+ metacritic games for the rest of your life or only 1-89 metacritic games for the rest of your life?
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For me it comes down to can I live not playing a gta 6 or botw, and what ever else comes out. I think I would be happier sticking with 90 up.
All 90+ tells me is that a game has a very high marketing budget.
Hell, I compiled a list of ten games I love and as you'll see, all but one of them are firmly in the 80s:
The only two games I can think of that crack 90 is GTA: San Andreas (which is unsurprising) and Burnout 3: Takedown (because it's a fucking banger).
Hell, I compiled a list of ten games I love and as you'll see, all but one of them are firmly in the 80s:
- Def Jam: Fight for NY (84)
- Fallout: New Vegas (84)
- Forza Horizon 3 (86)
- Life is Strange (85)
- Pokemon HeartGold (87)
- Saints Row 2 (81)
- Star Fox 64 (88)
- Streets of Rage 4 (82)
- Tekken 5 (88)
- Watch_Dogs 2 (75)
The only two games I can think of that crack 90 is GTA: San Andreas (which is unsurprising) and Burnout 3: Takedown (because it's a fucking banger).
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quality over quantity
review scores have almost nothing to do with quality though, so i can't answer
review scores have almost nothing to do with quality though, so i can't answer
Is this about 90+ games going forward, or does it include every previous 90+ game as well?
Many of my favorite games of all time were 90+, but the majority of the modern games that hit those scores typically tend to be yawn inducing for me since it's the same names again and again, or games that play too similarly to one another anyway.
I'd still probably go with 1-89 though since I've had fun with a lot more games within the 80 - 89 range overall, and going forward I'm sure there will be way more games within that range that I would like compared to the typical AAA, "We spent five hundred trillion on these cutscenes" games that get all the praise largely because of production value and not as much for actual gameplay content.
Many of my favorite games of all time were 90+, but the majority of the modern games that hit those scores typically tend to be yawn inducing for me since it's the same names again and again, or games that play too similarly to one another anyway.
I'd still probably go with 1-89 though since I've had fun with a lot more games within the 80 - 89 range overall, and going forward I'm sure there will be way more games within that range that I would like compared to the typical AAA, "We spent five hundred trillion on these cutscenes" games that get all the praise largely because of production value and not as much for actual gameplay content.
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List of games from metacritic for reference:
https://www.metacritic.com/browse/games/score/metascore/all/all/filtered?view=detailed
https://www.metacritic.com/browse/games/score/metascore/all/all/filtered?view=detailed
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I mean by logic, there's probably only a handful of 90+ games every year. At most probably 5 on a great year?
Where as majority of the games that comes out are bound to be lower than that.
Where as majority of the games that comes out are bound to be lower than that.
Slay the Spire is below 90 on all platforms, using that as my metric I'd never choose the 90+ range.
A game scoring 90+ on MC doesn't mean I'll automatically love it more than games rated 89 and below. The guarantee of a satisfying experience is gone the moment you don't agree with the general consensus on a game. Plus, why miss out on other great titles based on an aggregate rating?
I don't pay attention to Metacritic for any games I enjoy, so I'm betting my favorites are below 90 most of the time.
I like how the ones choosing the 89- games can get the remastered, better versions of Xenoblade and Final Fantasy IX, while people choosing the 90+ have to stick with the original games on the Wii and PS1 : )
Yeah, there are some genres that just don't appeal to a large number of people and because of that they will inevitably score lower than genres that do, like say a milsim game versus a third person action adventure game. One of those genres has a way higher chance than the other, no matter how good they are, to score a 90+ aggregate score.
Most games well into the 90s just have extremely good marketing budgets and impressive presentation really. There are also tons that people argue were never good years after the fact, like Jet Set Radio.
If you pick 90s and up only I suppose you would be allowed to play Yakuza 0 on Xbox but no other platforms though.
If you pick 90s and up only I suppose you would be allowed to play Yakuza 0 on Xbox but no other platforms though.
Most of the Souls games seem to be in the 80s. Demons Souls (non-remaster) barely makes the cut at 89 too.
Mass Effect 1 and 3 at 89 as well, and 2 manage to get included through the remaster.
Maybe most important Pillars of Eternity is at 89, for some unfair reason, so I cant in good conscience say anything else than 1-89.
Much easier choice than I would have expected.
Ports and remasters really is a savior here. It might hurt a little bit, but you can even play Witcher 3 in the 1-89 segment, you just have to go for the Switch version.
Damn, all those games sitting at 89. If I could only pick a single metacritic score number of games to play at all, it seems like 89 is the perfect choice.
Mass Effect 1 and 3 at 89 as well, and 2 manage to get included through the remaster.
Maybe most important Pillars of Eternity is at 89, for some unfair reason, so I cant in good conscience say anything else than 1-89.
Much easier choice than I would have expected.
Ports and remasters really is a savior here. It might hurt a little bit, but you can even play Witcher 3 in the 1-89 segment, you just have to go for the Switch version.
Damn, all those games sitting at 89. If I could only pick a single metacritic score number of games to play at all, it seems like 89 is the perfect choice.
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I might go 90+ just because I'm a big Zelda fan and they're largely 90+. I'll be sad to miss out on a bunch of games, but I think I'd be sadder to miss out on Zelda.
For some reason, I thought more of my favorite games hit the sub-90 range. Not at all. In fact, I pretty clearly favor games above 90 overall, even if there are tons of exceptions.
Really split on this one. 🤔
Really split on this one. 🤔
Nah, it varies, depending on the specific game or version.
Demon's Souls PS3 89
Sekiro PC 88
Original Dark Souls 89
Dark Souls Remastered 84
Dark Souls 2 SotFS 87
Dark Souls 3 89
Dark Souls 2, Elden Ring and Bloodborne are above, but as long as you choose specific platforms, the others are available in some version.
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Lots of 90+ games I'm not interested in, even if they are technical marvels. Way more I'd actually want to play are below.
Most of my favourite genres rarely hit 90+, and the big games that reviewers love rarely interest me. Seeing as I mentally usually end up adding a few points to the genres I like and deducting them from type of games that bother the GOTY lists, I'm happy enough with <89. I suspect that vast majority of my favourite games don't have a massive metacritic score.
Option 2. I would rather have a world of Tom Chick well-reviewed games than zeitgeist ones, even if I don't always agree with him.
Am I doing this right
Am I doing this right
If i had to pick top 10 video games for me most would be lower than 90, hell maybe 85 so it's easy to pick. OP you should have posted the poll with 1-85 instead of 1-89 lol.
Voted 90+ only so I could at least try to play them all. Finding time to play seems to be the issue for me, not lack of games.
so one of the problems with this premise is that because MC from like 90-100 has a lot of great games, but their are a very large amount that are just the different ports of the same games. I know this because I wanted to play all the games in the top 100, but when i had to start accounting for duplicates it becomes very hard to tell when the list starts. Overall 1-89 would be a better choice because you could effectively play a 90+ game that just has a lower rated port.Also, If you also cut out all the dupes from 90 onward sticking with the highest rated ports then 90-100 gets considerably smaller.