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UshiromiyaEva posted...

Numbers aren't worthless, aggregate numbers are worthless.

If someone who hates all the games you love and loves all the games you hate gives this game a 2, that gets added to the same pile as the rest. If you read his review you know his 2 is worthless to you personally, but if you look at a metacritic score his review has the same weight as everyone elses, you suddenly care about his 2 by proxy.

Sure, but regardless, universal acclaim almost always signals the game is something special. The way i look at it, getting a 90+ on opencritic is pretty damn rare. Especially something thats like a 97 with 150+ reviews all in agreement. If something that high doesnt signal goty potential, idk what does. A critic giving TOTK a 2 seems highly unlikely, and even then, his review would pretty much vanish under the weight of the other 149 reviews, and hed probably lose all clout anyway. Theres definitely an invisible hand to all this, and if youre someone with limited free time, its not a bad way to go.

And also high rotten tomatoes scores are literally advertised on streaming services and the fronts of blu ray boxes, so these aggregates definitely hold a lot of influence whether you think theyre worthless or not in your mind