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A Look At Metacritic’s Many Problems
26Today, the gaming website Eurogamer announced plans to ditch review scores, joining outlets like Kotaku and Rock Paper Shotgun in Fighting The Good Fight against the arbitrary and meaningless quantification of video game quality.
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The 22 Best-Reviewed Games That Don’t Have Sequels (Yet)
It’s the unwritten rule of the video game industry: “Have Hit, Will Franchise”. Of the 441 video games on review aggregator Metacritic with a rating of 90 per cent or above, 419 have been developed into a series, or are already part of a franchise themselves.
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Warren Spector Sure Wishes Metacritic Was Less Relevant
Add Deus Ex and Epic Mickey creator Warren Spector to the list of people who think the video game industry should stop caring so much about Metacritic.
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Did Sports Video Games Really Get Any Better In 2012?
Earlier this week, Metacritic bemoaned 2012 as a year of poorer review scores for video games than the one preceding it. Fewer titles surpassed the all-important 90 — which practically guarantees job security to those who developed or greenlit the project — than in 2011. Interestingly, the three console platforms’ average review scores all improved…