What do you think of Metacritic?

JTK said:
I've watched the video just to see what it was about.

Here is something I now understand, and this term can be used not only in gaming, but in every day life under any circumstances... "Nobody knows what they're talking about." That's right. You, me, everybody.

When someone makes a statement, the cold, cruel and brutal truth is, they are making an educated guess at best or a shot in the dark at worst. This is why a number of people are interested in science. A scientific fact is something that can be repeated a million times. "1+1 will always equal 2" and why Frame Data is so useful.

Let me give you some examples.

When it comes to gaming, I've come to find that everybody has different views on games. One of my favorite games ever made was Tenchu Z for the Xox 360. Tenchu Z didn't score very well at all because of the obvious bugs and glitches it had. Online play was barely existent, but I played this game faithfully for years almost every day. Would I recommend it to anybody? No. Because the quality of the game was awful, but I still loved it.

Skyrim, a great RPG that has amazing reviews, I can only play for a few hours at a time. Others are probably still playing their first character since it has launched on 11/11/11. Would I recommend it? Yes, because a majority of players like it, regardless of how I feel about it. I got 3,000+ hours on its prequel; Oblivion, which is far more than I ever got with Skyrim.

So with this term, "Nobody knows what they're talking about," I don't look at what score the games get any more. They're just numbers to me now. I look at reviews, mainly IGN and Gamespot to watch videos and learn what features the game has. I ignore the numbers. Before I buy a game, I look at the gameplay and the details/features of the game before I buy it.

When I look for a game, I look for something I can play for an almost unlimited amount of time. Fighting games, Minecraft, Elder Scrolls, Fallout are the ones that *I* can do this with, but others may not agree, nor do I believe the should, because after all, I don't know what I'm talking about.

Keep this in mind when selecting a game. My advice to you is, choose a game based on whether YOU will enjoy it or not, rather than what others are thinking, because they don't know what they're talking about either.
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What you say, definitely holds true. But the whole point of reviews imo are to convince people on the fence whether or not they should buy something. If someone knows they will enjoy a game, they will buy it regardless. Same with disliking a game. I think this video tries to illustrate the point that these poorly written reviews will give people the wrong idea. Some people didn't even play the game and gave it a 0. Others gave it two different ratings on each console. Which makes absolutely no sense unless there was an obvious flaw with one of the consoles. A website where reviews are easy to write and everyone's opinions are there. It's useful sometimes but also can be dangerous. When a large number of gamers are 12 year old boys, I actually don't want their opinion haha.

My biggest gripe about this video is he complains about people reviewing the game without playing it. But then he's telling people they are wrong about their reviews without him playing the game either. So in that sense, he's a gigantic hypocrite. Even though I think he brings up some valid points throughout the video. Which if you look closely, aren't even his. I don't think he wrote the article about this issue. He just made a video to talk about the article about this issue haha.
 
Le_Bello said:
Beg your pardon.

I don't get why Metacritic has this weird buzz around it, it's just another review site, why do people focus on it so much?
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They visit it very often to see what major reviewers think of recent media and the sight of immature user-reviews is a shameful display.
 
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