Just because the game has a low, or mid score, doesn't mean you won't like it.

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If you ever fall off the Sears Tower, just go real limp, because maybe you'll look like a dummy and people will try to catch you because, hey, free dummy.
 
It's more true for movies cause most of the good movies doesn't have a huge score while the games I mostly like usually does have a good score on Steam and others.
 
Looks like the OP was buying games based on critics scores… And now he's discovering that the reviews scores is just a marketing tools and console war fuel.
 
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Just because I'm fat doesn't mean that your eyes will see me that way.

You might be drunk that day. It's all just opinion anyway. Fat is a social construct. What weight is fat?

Edit: If an expert panel of judges looks at me and says I'm fat, and my mama says I'm just big boned, saying I'm not fat is coping. Just because a game is bad doesn't mean that you can't like it, but you liking a game doesn't make it good.

Saying everything is opinion and not calling someone fat is a utopia of your own making but the problem is that not everyone lives in the same world that way. You are trying to create a gaming utopia where no game is bad, but in reality for any game to be good we need some games to be bad. Without the bad games there are no good ones. It's like saying that everyone won the race and give everyone a trophy. It's like gamepass.

Games are not fungible people.
 
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Everything above metacritic 70 is playable. There's only difference in popularity, not in quality between 70-ish games and 80-ish games.
 
The biggest example for me is Spy Vs Spy on the PS2.

That game got 38 meta on PS2 and 53 on Xbox but I played a lot of it in local multiplayer when I was younger.
 
The truth.

Now that that's been said, what Metacritic mid game did you fall in love with OP?

My choice on this topic:
The Ascent
It was one of the best games that whole year, I believe I had Metroid Dread higher but otherwise it was one of my absolute top games. Can't say enough good things about it. Perfect controls, amazing visuals, punchy sound, awesome action, cool cover mechanic, great build variety, fantastic world building, etc. I would rather take a sequel to that than any new Halo, TLOU, COD, GTA, or whatever else AAA game that the critics always throw out 9s and 10s for.
 
Mownoc said:
The biggest example for me is Spy Vs Spy on the PS2.

That game got 38 meta on PS2 and 53 on Xbox but I played a lot of it in local multiplayer when I was younger.
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For me it was Minority Report on PS2/GC. Game was not great whatsoever, but damn did it make me laugh. So, it was entertaining enough, lol.
 
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Original Nier Gestalts but pretty crapy score with most reviewers but that didn't stop the game from being one of the best game I played in 2010.
 
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In the end, scores are given by other people, and they have their own opinions, which may be very different from your own.
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That is true, one of my beloved games from ps4 gen is this beauty, had superfun 120h playtime in it.

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Set between the events of STAR OCEAN: The Second Story and STAR OCEAN: Till the End of Time, STAR OCEAN: Integrity and Faithlessness takes place centuries after humans have left Earth for the stars. On a planet in the distant Faykreed star system, the swordsman Fidel Camuze and his childhood...
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IIrc it launched at 40 euro or something like that, so i got plenty fun out of it :)

Now if game is 70usd, published by big studio and got big marketting push/is given tons of brownie points from sellout reviewers, and still doesnt get at least 85 meta, especially if it pushes woke agenda, u know game is fucked up big time :)
 
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Aggregate scores are a good way to decide if one should spend their hard-earned money on a game or not.

It's weird to completely dismiss off reviews before making a purchase decision / decision to spend your time on a game.
 
Exactly.
a 7-8 game might end up as being your fav game. You never know.
Same with movies.

Games are more than a bunch of objectively scored parts. It might touch your sensibilities more than other people
 
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This.

Imagine someone calling a game with a 78 metacritic score mediocre.
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I mean, a 78 would be a C+ in school, so yeah, it's accurate. Though to some a 78 could be average or slightly above average depending on who you're talking to. It's all subjective.

But hey, the amount of fun you have is what really matters, and if you're having fun who cares what the score is? :pie_raybans:
 
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Can't say I disagree. Been following this mantra for the past decade or so. I understand my taste moreso than any supposed "critic" out there. Some of the games I prefer score poorly among the gaming media and its array of expert curators of taste.
 
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Thanks OP! I think you may be the first person in the history of video game forums to recognize that reviews are in fact people's opinions.
 
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People miss out on alot due to others opinions. As a kid i was un bothered and played alot of what people would consider trash.

Applies to highly rated games i may not like etc.

I really enjoyed Skull and Bones- its an opinion i formed on my own despite others or politics
 
I once accidentally played an 89 metascore game without realizing it.
Had to throw up almost immediately
Now I make sure I don't touch anything under 90.
 
Phoenix Point with Terror from the Void mod is a 90+ game to me although it got 74 on MC.
Rise of the Triad 2013 i love very much.
Civ 7 to me has very good foundation
 
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Speaking of this topic, I gotta say, the gaming media is really turning gaming into a mess. They give these often misguided free passes to games that "look pretty", but are usually quite banal, while games that try something different, with maybe not perhaps the greatest production values, often get smeared or trashed. Its quite likely one of the reasons gaming has taken such a stale direction. Creativity and new ideas aren't being rewarded. The degree of polish a game has is though.
 
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Bond007 said:
100% OP
People miss out on alot due to others opinions. As a kid i was un bothered and played alot of what people would consider trash.

Applies to highly rated games i may not like etc.

I really enjoyed Skull and Bones- its an opinion i formed on my own despite others or politics
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I've always told others if there's something that you're genuinely excited about, check it out regardless of the reaction. If you want to wait for it to drop in price JUST in case, I get it. But to completely skip something you were GENUINELY interested in because of the mouths of others is a shame. You can miss out on so many things you may enjoy/love.
 
Hawk The Slayer said:
It's more true for movies cause most of the good movies doesn't have a huge score while the games I mostly like usually does have a good score on Steam and others.
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I would say it is more true for games because of the huge range of games.
 
Heisenberg007 said:
Aggregate scores are a good way to decide if one should spend their hard-earned money on a game or not.

It's weird to completely dismiss off reviews before making a purchase decision / decision to spend your time on a game.
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You might be neglecting to take into account that some of those people behind those review scores at times aren't necessarily qualified to make that assessment.

If you want to fully entrust your faith into that aggregate score, regardless of how its attained and where its derived from, then you do you. I guess it counts as a sound and "safe" approach to decision making.
 
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