DigitalIncision posted...
I've got some extra hosting and love startin up some new sites. Anybody here interested in starting a metacritic-esque site and creating a panel that decides, based on some sort of algorithm, to weigh sites and their reviews? as in, as someone noted, an eight from eurogamer being different than an eight from IGN? This is definitely something that's a possibility, and not something that I want to take on by myself.
You could probably do this by gauging the average review-score for each source and weighing that appropriately against each game they review (probably best to do this based off of the source's past year or two rather than their entire history). That would be a good way to out-Metacritic Metacritic...but if you have issue with how Metacritic simply compiles scores and reports the answer, this alternative is no solution.
Metacritic's fine for what it does (though I prefer GameRankings): let me see what the general consensus is and link me to the reviews from the sources I trust most. It absolutely shouldn't have the final say on a consumer's mind, but the real issue's how we often rely on numbers instead of details anyway.
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