Eurogamer dropping review scores

[Dominic Brehetto]

good news. The rating scale has been broken for a long ass time and needs to be replaced

Too many people vest all their opinion in arbritrary number that means nothing

 

[Dominic Brehetto]

Do you know how many games come out each week? Metacritic exposes you to games you would never have heard about. Like I just bought this game called LISA on the pc that I never would of heard of if it wasn't for metacritic. It's dark as hell and right up my alley. I would NEVER of heard about it if it wasn't for metacritic.

Y'all are forgetting metacritic gives exposure to indies that you'd never hear about anywhere else. "Oh this game got an 85? Let me read about that and check it out." Without that shyt, we're just gonna be playing big name games that have humongous advertising budgets.

Without reviews, it's all gonna be based on advertising. fukk that shyt

the reviews numbers are already based on advertising. IE. how much money the studios are giving the websites.

 

[dBoyFresh*212]

Yeah I don't agree with @Ciggavelli at all on this one. Review scores let's people get lazy.

Just because a game is a 9/10 average on metacritic doesn't mean everyone is going to like it. dropping the numbers gives people a reason to actually read the review and not just jump to the score.

BUT THEIR STILL GOING TO HAVE A "skip", "must have" type thing at the bottom so ppl who didnt read the reviews beforev and only numbers will just rely on that. also if they decide to be lazy thats on them doesnt mean whole review system sdhould change to bettter suite lazy ppl

 

[Ciggavelli]

the reviews numbers are already based on advertising. IE. how much money the studios are giving the websites.

Like I said before, that's an unfounded conspiracy theory

Do I gotta bring up destiny again? How much money was put into advertising? Wasn't it like half the budget?

Still, they got reviews in the 70s. You'd think with all the money the publishers put into these sites they'd certainly give the game a 90, right?

What about the other hyped up games that got mediocre scores? Checks bounced or something?

Come on now

 

[Liquid]

good news. The rating scale has been broken for a long ass time and needs to be replaced

Too many people vest all their opinion in arbritrary number that means nothing

exactly, I don't think @Ciggavelli realizes how much weight people put on a number over a whole review.

 

[chemicalsword]

i like the shift.
the arbitrary numbers made me say fukk a review.
everybody is different. I don't give a damn if a supposed professional thinks something is an 8.
shyt might be a 5 or a 10 to me. its happened too often for me. still not putting much stock in
even this type of review for a game i want to play but at least they won't offend me by
throwing a number at me like this is how i should feel about this game after playing it....

 

[Ciggavelli]

exactly, I don't think @Ciggavelli realizes how much weight people put on a number over a whole review.

It's better to put weight on a number brought about by 80 people, then to read one review with one opinion.

Only using 3 sources is always gonna be worse than using 80. Simple stats again breh.

Everybody shyts on metacritic on here for whatever reason, but what happens when a new game comes out? The first thing people do is look for the reviews.

The Order thread is gonna be full of review scores. Wait and see.

 

[Liquid]

It's better to put weight on a number brought about by 80 people, then to read one review with one opinion.

Only using 3 sources is always gonna be worse than using 80. Simple stats again breh.

Everybody shyts on metacritic on here for whatever reason, but what happens when a new game comes out? The first thing people do is look for the reviews.

The Order thread is gonna be full of review scores. Wait and see.

Showing a percentage of reviewers/gamers that like the game is better than a weighed average of numbers which doesn't mean shyt at the end of the day

 

[Ciggavelli]

Showing a percentage of reviewers/gamers that like the game is better than a weighed average of numbers which doesn't mean shyt at the end of the day

So you'd rather have pass/fail then a better breakdown? That makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.

The more you can differentiate the better. How hard is this?

 

[Dominic Brehetto]

It's better to put weight on a number brought about by 80 people, then to read one review with one opinion.

Only using 3 sources is always gonna be worse than using 80. Simple stats again breh.

Everybody shyts on metacritic on here for whatever reason, but what happens when a new game comes out? The first thing people do is look for the reviews.

The Order thread is gonna be full of review scores. Wait and see.

People use review scores as fan boy flame war shyt. They dont actually care and their position on reviews depends on wether it benefits their stanning.

 

[Ciggavelli]

People use review scores as fan boy flame war shyt. They dont actually care and their position on reviews depends on wether it benefits their stanning.

That is true, but I also think people use reviews as a tool to help them determine if they should purchase a game or not. We all don't have money to buy every game that comes out. Metacritic is a great tool to help you make an informed decision. It's not the only tool, but it's a good one

 

[Liquid]

So you'd rather have pass/fail then a better breakdown? That makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.

The more you can differentiate the better. How hard is this?

Numbers are not a better breakdown as a game that I consider a 10/10 might mean a 5/10 for you.

How hard is it for you to grasp this? You build NASA like desktops, mess with numbers all day and yet can't see how wrong you are in this argument?

There will be better breakdowns if numbers are eliminated because it will force reviewers to really make their point instead of hiding behind a number.

 

[Dominic Brehetto]

So you'd rather have pass/fail then a better breakdown? That makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.

The more you can differentiate the better. How hard is this?

Because the system is broken.

Why do bethesda and rock star games never get their scores affected by bugs and software issues while other studios specifically have their scores brought down for bugs.


It happens constantly.

Its an arbritrary number that means NOTHING. Reviewers literally pull a number out of their ass.

 

[Liquid]

That is true, but I also think people use reviews as a tool to help them determine if they should purchase a game or not. We all don't have money to buy every game that comes out. Metacritic is a great tool to help you make an informed decision. It's not the only tool, but it's a good one

That's the problem I am trying to get across to you.

They are NOT using the reviews as a tool to help them determine if they should buy the game or not, they are using the NUMBERS. A HIGH percentage of people don't even READ the review.

 

[Liquid]

That is true, but I also think people use reviews as a tool to help them determine if they should purchase a game or not. We all don't have money to buy every game that comes out. Metacritic is a great tool to help you make an informed decision. It's not the only tool, but it's a good one

I wish I could find the Greg Kasavin interview in where he could not believe that people were going crazy that HALO 2 ONLY got a 9.4 and caused people to say they will not buy the game because it did not get a perfect 10. If he would have just said that it was a great game the whole backlash could have been avoided all together