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Metacritic are doing a "Must-Play Games" badge for games rated 90 or higher
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So just like certified fresh on Rotten Tomatoes.
This is a great idea and that's a damn good list of games.
This is a great idea and that's a damn good list of games.
My biggest beef with metacritic is the use of colors. At least the sharp difference when going from 75-> 74
They have pretty much the exact same score but the colors tells another story.. that more than anything tells people "stay away from this"
At least use fading colors instead of totally different ones
They have pretty much the exact same score but the colors tells another story.. that more than anything tells people "stay away from this"
At least use fading colors instead of totally different ones
Why...
There are so many gems that I consider must play games before a lot of overrated 90+ games.
There are so many gems that I consider must play games before a lot of overrated 90+ games.
gamers get fired up over stuff like this under the guise of concern for developers, yet gamers treat develops like complete shit.
Surely if a game on one platform is lower than on other platforms it's because platform specific review sites value exclusives higher?
If you don't like review scores don't look at them. Stop crying about it and ruining it for those who, like me, find them useful.
Damn Switch has had a strong year.
This thread made me aware of Sonic Mania. First Sonic game to escape the Sonic cycle?
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.
I guess I need to give Celeste and Dead Cells a go?
This thread made me aware of Sonic Mania. First Sonic game to escape the Sonic cycle?
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.
I guess I need to give Celeste and Dead Cells a go?
0-80 Don't Even Fucking Think About It
81-85 Participation Award
86-90 Wait for Sale
90+ MC APPROVED
Depends entirely on your own taste. I prefer AAA over indies.
This sums it up for me as well. Of course this really isn't anything new since they been doing this for movies for years in Metacritic and Rottentomatoes. Still most of us knowledgeable enough about games and their own tastes only use the scores as a helpful guideline and personally as a fan of adventure games I find most scoring 70+ worth checking out.
Ah shit, I sold my PS4 copy of Monster Hunter World to subsidize the PC port but it looks like the PS4 version was the Must-Play game all along!
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
Maybe I'm overestimating people, but the numerous comments about how one game will be a "must play" and the same game on a different system won't be a "must play" and that it will create some huge problems seem pretty childish to me. Like, I don't see RDR2 getting a 90 on PS4 and an 89 on Xbox One and gamers in mass flooding the internet with memes of the game not being worth playing on Xbox One. There will be stupid fanboys but they were stupid fanboys without this badge.
Feels like some are making a mountain out of a mole here.
Feels like some are making a mountain out of a mole here.
0-87 Go home and be a salaryman
88-89 Play it with gloves on
90-98 8.5/10
99-100 True gamers only
This seems very similar to Opencritic's "Mighty" designation.
When I heard about what Metacritic was doing I thought they were copying Opencritic.
1 reviewer gave Dead Cells a 70 on PC. He did not review it for Switch. So it goes on the "must play list" for Switch instead but not PC.
I wonder how many other games miss the list based on 1 person's opinion.
I wonder how many other games miss the list based on 1 person's opinion.
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.
Based on their numbers, the median score is between 71 and 72. There are predictably spikes around 7/10 and 8/10.
I guess I'll post a bunch of OpenCritic numbers...
Based on OpenCritic, above 9/10 makes up more or less the top 1% of scored games.
So if those numbers can be generalised, maybe Metacritic based themselves on the logic or "rewarding the top 1%" with their medal?
If you put a certification starting at 8/10, you'd award 19.4% of all scored games, or one game out of five.
If you look at everything above 8/10, starting at 81/100, that's still about 16.6% (one sixth) of all the scored games.
Yup, there are a lot of games that fall into that range.
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.
Below that the game get a "Strong" mention (83 fall into the top 10.5%).
And for the curious, Vroom in the Sky is the last game on page 61 and is rated 19.
