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Metacritic User Score - reliable?

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dorimi

Hey

so i was searching what to buy either COD or BF4 and noticed that COD has less than 2 pts on Metacritic while BF4 has quite normal scores.

I tend to rely on User Score and to ignore Critics reviews. The last time i bought a games based on critic pre-release reviews was ROME:2 preorder. That was a huge mistake, and now i am totally agree with the current User Score for ROME 2 (i could give it +1 or 2 more scores).

User score was a reason why i avoid to buy Company of Heroes 2 and SimCity (because of always online). I guess the only publisher which games i would always pre-order is Paradox Interactive, since they are always deliver :D CK2 and EU4 are most recent examples.

How about you and User Score?

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Exactually

Nope, watch reviews or gameplay on youtube. Then make your decision.

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jurm02

I generally read reviews. I like reading long reviews, where there specifically point out what they do and do not like (of course, it is entirely subjective and sometimes with fakes inbetween)..but I also love rage reviews for the entertainment value. And I watch gameplay. I don't pay much attention to the scoring, because certain reviews can bring a score up and down drastically.

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Skylight

If you want actual information about the game's quality (instead of looking at a certain number that may or may not be accurate), your best bet is to check a few reviews or so called "first looks" on YouTube from independent gaming channels, such as TotalBiscuit, Angry Joe, Elder-Geek, Northernlion etc. (there's a whole bunch of them, so take your pick). And you should generally avoid reviews from major channels like IGN, GameSpot and such (too biased IMO).

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ET3D

Even reading the metacritic reviews is helpful. It will show the good and bad people see about a game.Sometimes for example people give bad scores because of a comparison to an older game, and if I happened to not play previous versions I largely ignore these comments. This is also true for the other commentators.

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Deathtitan77

The only review you can trust is yours.

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nonamejuju

Look at the steam review xD

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SimonSays

User scores are only as a quick and dirty gauge of vocal popular opinion, not of game quality. And popular opinion is garbage. Aggregation of data is inherently a destructive process, only leaving the lowest common denominators behind. The average of a thousand data points is astronomically unlikely to actually represent any one of them, least of all your own.

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Closed 11 years ago by dorimi.