Metacritic could really do to divide their scores over different consoles... a good game could suffer from a bad port, and while here that's not quite true (Bethesda put Skyrim on all 3 consoles) it'd be really unfair if one console got its game ported over by a different dev and the score for the whole game was brought down.
Umm, they already do, and not quite true doesn't cut it, the objection you make is based on something that simply isn't true anyway. Even if they were joined and you're objection was one of the version being weaker which brought down it's overall score it's still relevant as people checking it for an opinion including what to buy for can be made aware of it.
Metacritic scores you need to take with a grain of salt since sometimes you will get the 0 scores or whatever for having DRM or some other issue that is not related to the quality of the game though it may effect your purchase. The actual player reviews are worthwhile though. You can read of an issue and think that wont bother me, or I hate when games do that, or read about something someone liked and think to yourself awesome or god that is lame how could anyone like that etc. Once you get to the why's of the scores you get pretty good information even if the person exaggerated the score by giving it a 10 or a 1. That is of course assuming you have had life experiences and learned form then so you have a grasp of your own likes and dislikes. From what I could tell from this forum before launch that is a unusual trait, most people have never experienced anything and need to experience the kick in the balls to know it will hurt.
Heres the funny thing DRM is something thats tied deeply to the game, it's part of how you purchase it and built into the game, you can't say just cause a company takes a lousy way to include it does not make it irrelevant to the game and whether you may or may not purchase it. Sure it's not a gameplay feature nor is it glitched graphics and quests but if I checked out a series of reviews and none even mentioned let alone marked down the game for only being installable on one PC or shutting itself off if your connection drops I'd be pretty annoyed.
Lol@Metacritic, seriously. Biggest joke of a critic site on this planet.
Yeah having all the reviews listed with scores in one place and given an overall score is so much worse then reading OPSM US and being told the game is perfect with a score of 100 or numberous other sites that show a heavy bias.
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