Why does he bring up "predominately white men" at 2:20?
[QUOTE=theseltsamone;40213586]Why does he bring up "predominately white men" at 2:20?[/QUOTE]
To emphasize the fact that a relatively small demographic has a disproportionately large amount of control over games journalism, I assume.
I'm going to have to disagree with sess here.
Metacritic does its job.
It gives consumers a quick glance to see "generally" if a game/movie is decent or not.
Don't like "predominately white men" opinions? Look at the user score.
The thing I do agree with is that bonuses should not be dealt through metacritic. An executive (or an internal tester) should be able to spend the time to review the game and make sure its up to their quality standard. They shouldn't just throw it to the reviewers to determine bonuses.
I still use metacritic though, because I feel its quite accurate for what it is.
i dunno why i just always liked this guy.
thing is though that metacritic isn't that bad. also you're a noob if you use just one aggregator to look up ratings on thing, always cross reference your aggregators and make sure you have other ones to reference.
you should never rely on one source, always double check your shit and make sure you got backups and second opinions.
[editline]9th April 2013[/editline]
also i fucking love his beard
This has less to do with Metacritic and more to do with people who pay the devs. If Valve for example held their employee's paycheck at ransom because of a metacritic score, then that's Valve's asshole move, not metacritics.
[QUOTE=Mr_Razzums;40215062]I'm going to have to disagree with sess here.
Metacritic does its job.
It gives consumers a quick glance to see "generally" if a game/movie is decent or not.
Don't like "predominately white men" opinions? [b]Look at the user score.[/b]
The thing I do agree with is that bonuses should not be dealt through metacritic. An executive (or an internal tester) should be able to spend the time to review the game and make sure its up to their quality standard. They shouldn't just throw it to the reviewers to determine bonuses.
I still use metacritic though, because I feel its quite accurate for what it is.[/QUOTE]
User scores are usually more skewed and terrible than the official thing though
"10/10 it was okay i guess"
"0/10 wtff my 2005 dell compooter with 256k internet can't run battlefuled 3???? gay game lol"
[editline]8th April 2013[/editline]
[QUOTE=T2L_Goose;40215258]This has less to do with Metacritic and more to do with people who pay the devs. If Valve for example held their employee's paycheck at ransom because of a metacritic score, then that's Valve's asshole move, not metacritics.[/QUOTE]
This.
Remember that fiasco with the FONV devs last year? One fucking metacritic point. One point and they lost all of that money.
[QUOTE=milkandcooki;40215622]User scores are usually more skewed and terrible than the official thing though
"10/10 it was okay i guess"
"0/10 wtff my 2005 dell compooter with 256k internet can't run battlefuled 3???? gay game lol"
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Or SimCity where all the players were rating the game by the launch and not by, you know, the GAME.
[QUOTE=milkandcooki;40215622]User scores are usually more skewed and terrible than the official thing though
"10/10 it was okay i guess"
"0/10 wtff my 2005 dell compooter with 256k internet can't run battlefuled 3???? gay game lol"
[/QUOTE]
Hitman: Absolution is a good example of this, it was getting rated 0's because "This isn't a hitman game wtf!!" when really, the game itself deserved at least a 7 or so.
Taylor Swift tho? really?
[QUOTE=GeneralSpecific;40213606]To emphasize the fact that a relatively small demographic has a disproportionately large amount of control over games journalism, I assume.[/QUOTE]
Ah, I suppose it just seems like a weird callout with all these concerns about diversity in the industry.
Well written aside from that though.
Oh hey, Kotaku just posted a VERY similar article related to this subject. I mean, surely they weren't "inspired" by someone else.
[url]http://kotaku.com/metacritic-matters-how-review-scores-hurt-video-games-472462218[/url]
Number ratings are really useless.
[QUOTE=milkandcooki;40215622]User scores are usually more skewed and terrible than the official thing though[/QUOTE]
Although the "official thing[s]" don't understand that when you're on a scale of zero to ten, the middle number is [I]five[/I].
I feel sad for Sessler, he saw both the golden days of gaming journalism and the shit we put up with these days. But I guess he is used to things around him going to shit as he stays pure.
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