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[Swordfishtrombone]

metacritic user reviews are a good idea in principle, but fail in practice, due to people so easily forming totally black or white opinions on issues, rather than trying to stay fair and realistic in their evaluations. Also, it's generally only those who really get a chip on their shoulder from some aspect of the game that go to any length to let others know of their disappointment, and when they do that, they often excaggerate every negative aspect, and forget every positive.

Then you get the inflated 10/10 reviews from people seeing this negative excaggeration, and trying to up the overall score to something a little more fair.

Very few people actually give a considered, level-headed review and score.

[Jebediah Springfield]

Spaghetti_Ninja wrote...

Lucy_Glitter wrote...

 That's why you don't trust mainstream reviews. They have to be favourable to not anger the EA gods and lose EA's support of their company.

Trust the user scores and the indie reviewers. 

It's the exact opposite. You can only trust professional mainstream reviews, because users tend to mass downgrade a game out of spite - or heap nothing but praise on it, creating extremely polarized scores. MW2 and Battlefield 3 are the most recent example of this, with fanbases waging war on each other. Same with TOR and Guild Wars 2 fanboys.

At least the ''game review industry'' isn't completely bought like SOME people would like us to believe, even though there are some examples of corruption. But it's nowhere near that bad. Most professional reviewers may give a game a good score, but still point out flaws.

The only score I put stock in is the professional reviewer average on Metacritic.

You really believe this? The professional reviewers are out there to make money, and part of making money is in advertising the games. There is hardly anything negative in the IGN review and when you look at the review it is clearly laid out as an advertisement. Because it is an advertisement. The Destructoid, Videogamer and Giant Bomb reviews are decent. And there are a lot of keys in these reviews that suggest that 80 is the highest score ME3 should be getting. All of the other reviews are just paid for hype. In a month we'll know a lot of the average user ranking of this game. And if we look to Skyrim it was a consensus of GOTY for the first few months because of economy boosters, but really it was recycled, unfinished trash. I am hoping ME3 will not be the same, but it's starting to look like it.

[JohnDoe]

seems metacritic players are not playing the game per se, but complaining about the protean DLC.
and how they should boycott bioware. Kinda hilarious since similar stuff as happened to the likes of games like Modern Warfare 3.. and they still bought the game.

Jebediah Springfield wrote...

You really believe this? The
professional reviewers are out there to make money, and part of making
money is in advertising the games. There is hardly anything negative in
the IGN review and when you look at the review it is clearly laid out as
an advertisement. Because it is an advertisement. The Destructoid,
Videogamer and Giant Bomb reviews are decent. And there are a lot of
keys in these reviews that suggest that 80 is the highest score ME3
should be getting. All of the other reviews are just paid for hype. In a
month we'll know a lot of the average user ranking of this game. And if
we look to Skyrim it was a consensus of GOTY for the first few months
because of economy boosters, but really it was recycled, unfinished
trash. I am hoping ME3 will not be the same, but it's starting to look
like it.

I agree, there was this scandal too, when they fired some reviewers because they gave the game "kane & Lynch" a bad score.. and the publisher demanded a better score or they would pull their lucrative ads.

Modifié par JohnDoe, 06 mars 2012 - 04:07 .

[Duncaaaaaan]

The truth lies somewhere in the middle whenever it comes to metacritic.

[Alraiis]

For all the claims of "unreliable" games journalists and "bought" reviews, I'd still take any of those over first-day Metacritic user scores. Maybe it's just easier to translate Hype to English for me. I don't speak Troll.

[furryrage59]

Acidrain92 wrote...

furryrage59 wrote...

Have always found meta critic useful, if you actually take the time to read through them you can get a feel of why a lot of people don't like/like a game.

Waving them ALL off as trolls is just naive.

metacritic is the opposite of useful =/

I must have accidentally read three major spoilers on that site today.

those user reviews are full of troll posts and spam masquerading as troll posts.

I've always found it useful, sorry.

The posts i've read have detailed why they dislike or like whatever.

Someone can dislike a game without being a troll, that's just a cop out and an excuse.

[Han Shot First]

Stick to reviews by critics.

Most fans only know how to rate a game a zero a ten. There is literally no in between. You either get people trashing a game and saying it was the worst thing they've ever played or fanboys crowing about how ridiculously amazing it is. If you just looked at user reviews you'd think every game ever released was either a classic or a turd, with no games in between those two extremes.

[Lucky Mame]

"It’s so easy to see the galaxy in black and white. Gray? I don’t know what to do with gray." This is indeed true with reviews. You can love or hate the game if, and only if, you have valid arguments. If reviewer loves the game he/she might not care about the negative things. That doesn't mean that they should be left out. Mentioning something like "this thing wasn't so good, but I didn't care about it when playing the game" is a good thing to do. It gives the reader impression that others might not like it even though the reviewer did. On the negative reviews people also seem to forget the good sides of the game. Honestly, if ME is so succesful then it must mean there's something good about it. If it's ****, then it's good ****.

The reviews that are on the neutral area are usually the best ones. They bring out the good and the bad sides and then leave the reader decide whether they these things matter or not.

[xtorma]

The game is so good , steve jobs came back from the dead to play it. thats got to be worth something.