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Last Post: 9:15:46pm, 11/04/2023
Doe posted...
The whole point of a Critic aggregator is that the average may be better reflective of reality than an outlier. You're criticizing Metacritic for trying to solve the problem you're complaining about.
Except that Metacritic doesn't give equal weighting to each reviewer, or to each site. An IGN review would be given more importance, no matter how incompetently it was done, because IGN gets a lot of web traffic.
ViewtifulJoe posted...
And the end result was a cult that worships the big number.
It's the Cult of Hype. They do their dances and rituals before a game comes out. Watch trailers and preorder based on highly curated content and bullshots. Hype themselves up into a frenzy. Then release is harvest time. The game itself barely matters, because if the reviews are high, it was a good harvest. But blood must always be spilled, to appease the Hype gods. One low review among a sea of high reviews is the typical sacrificial lamb. And if the scores are low, everything must burn.