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Corrodias.. I was looking at Metacritic's aggregate. 98 for 360, 97 for ps3. PArt of that is because they have to convert the star rating to a 100% score, and a lot of those 5/5 scores turn into 100% which is part of my point of 'perfect scores'.
Also, the 75-100% was as I said the "Reviewer score", as in that's the one given. Where 70% is a failure, and 90% is average, and higher is a good game. It muddies things out and makes it pointless.
Sometimes the viewer reviews help, but this one is getting the point where it's either a 10/10 it was good or a 0/10 overhyped. A few middle choices balance things out but I admit it is a good way to get a rough score, which is at about 80%.

I admit the escapist review was pretty helpful... it's a good game but it has faults. That's the sort of thing I wanted. I'm not buying the game until it comes on pc, if, but in the meantime I want to see if it really WILL be worth it, and as I said, the more perfect scores I see the more worried I get there's really some fundamental problem that's being papered over by the final scores.
Dragon Age 2 is my favourite example, because a lot of the reviews were like the PC Gamer one, where the review said "Eh, it's ok, but it's not that great a game" and the final score was "94% OMG GAME OF THE YEAR" obviously by the editor who has to watch they don't piss off the publishers. It was known around it had some real fundamental issues the whole way through, but the scores were inflated, and obviously so.

That's why I was wondering if this was really more prominent in the console world, not really playing those games, and it looks like the answer is "not really too much more than otherwise".


Also, what happened to Carolyn Petit? Also also, I take it they never went the obvious route of 3-player co-op which it seems all but designed for? Shame.
 
Gondar said:
Also, what happened to Carolyn Petit? Also also, I take it they never went the obvious route of 3-player co-op which it seems all but designed for? Shame.
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Carolyn Petit made several mistakes, she didn't give it a prefect score, she called the game out on its misogyny, she is a woman and the biggest sin of all, she used to be a man, that led to a torrent of abuse on Gamespot, Youtube and Twitter that beggared belief. There was even a petition started to get her fired.
 
Ahhh, people. They associate with a game, they like a game. Thus, anyone who dislikes the game or thinks it isn't perfect is attacking something they associate with, and thus by association, them. So they lash out. It's a sadly very common human trait, and we all tend to exhibit it here or there.

On the other hand, a lot of metacritic's problem is that they have to rescale reviews.. when a game is given 5 stars, that means it's 100%. Because it's impossible to get the granularity of full out percentages in a 5 point system (and they're loathe to use half-stars, but even then that's still 10% a pop) the result is a lot of 5 stars to say "Great game" while if they used percentages it'd be somewhere lower but still high. The star reviews seem more common for console reviewers too, which may be why they get rated far higher. Even ignoring the obvious paying off or strong-arming the review sites to rate high (something which is known to exist, there's no denying it) that alone causes major issues.

I note that the actual user aggregate is even though it's a lot of 10/10 or 0/10 the total seems to probably be closer to the REAL review score, although let's face it, numbers are arbitrary. Anyways, by the time it rolls around onto PC, the reviews will be closer to what it should get, as oddly it seems the PC reviewers are more variable and prone to be harsher on a game even from a big-name. At least some of them are.
 
I've seen advice that you have to knock 10 points off of any highly marketed AAA game such as this to approach an accurate result. It looks like that's probably true, except that it would necessarily cap at 90, then. Perhaps a drastically logarithmic scale. Oh well. I've defended ratings in the past, but i'm finding it harder to do so as people consistently abuse them.

Then again, maybe these people had the best times of their lives playing GTA5; i can't say they're wrong.
 
That's... a very good review. I can't attest to if he's being unfair to the plot or not (I'd say he's being unfair about thinking the previous games for being great biting satire.. really, sorry but I've never found Rockstar to ever be that great at that aside from some funny names and a few nice references) but the rest seems right on, and a lot of the misogyny is pretty true it seems. To be fair, a lot of the fanboys would never notice.. most 'adult' games seem to include that sort of stuff to seem edgier or 'more true' or whatever. Thanks for the link, I doubt it'll ever end up part of metacritic's aggregate review system.. at least not without fanboy backlash of "OMG how can u not give it 12/10 u suck wtf". Except with worse spelling.

Welcome to game reviews! Where everything's made up and the points don't matter! :D
 
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