Fair enough.
Metacritic needs to die, or to completely change.
- game on one platform 90 (must play)
- same game on different platform 89 (not must play)
- some publications weight much more than many others
- Stephens sausage roll 90 must play (9 reviews); Nier 88 (101 reviews). Where s barrier to entry, like 30 reviews or something?
Should be below 85 = "must not play".
0-80 Don't Even Fucking Think About It
Depends entirely on your own taste. I prefer AAA over indies.After Super Meat Boy, Hotline Miami and Hollow Night, I am thinking I really need to pay more attention to indies, they seem to be more fun than the AAAs.
Good idea! Of course review scores aren't everything, and sometimes the critics get it wrong, but in general a 90 Meta game is well worthy of that badge. And people should check them out!
gamers get fired up over stuff like this under the guise of concern for developers, yet gamers treat develops like complete shit.
0-87 Go home and be a salaryman0-80 Don't Even Fucking Think About It
81-85 Participation Award
86-90 Wait for Sale
90+ MC APPROVED
lol0-80 Don't Even Fucking Think About It
81-85 Participation Award
86-90 Wait for Sale
90+ MC APPROVED
That's pretty funny.
It's almost as if the people who dislike review scores and score aggregate sites and the people screaming insults at developers are not the same people
There are thousands of games in the 80s that are must-plays too, and I could name a bunch of video games in the 90s that aren't and my opinion won't be even controversial.
Is MGS5 a must-play? Most would agree now that it isn't. Is RE7 a must-play on VR? Most people would say so.
Hopefully Opencritic won't do something this dumb.
That reminds me of OpenCritic's graph of scores distribution.I get that but 90 is way to high. I mean these days people consider an 8/10 game average, this will only make things worse. Look at the Shadow of The Tomb Raider review thread lol.
If you put a certification starting at 8/10, you'd award 19.4% of all scored games, or one game out of five.Above 80 should be certified fresh, above 90 must play pretty medal on every box
On Opencritic, it seems like they chose to cut off the top 10%. So starting at 84 (top 8.1%) they give games a "Mighty" mention.This seems very similar to Opencritic's "Mighty" designation.
When I heard about what Metacritic was doing I thought they were copying Opencritic.