There are plenty of epics being written. Read Bonfire of the Vanities, American Pastoral, Underworld, The Adventures of Cavalier & Clay, Beloved, all masterpieces that can stand along side the very best of American literature, written by authors still alive today that have so much more to say about American society…

I say we just get rid of the big budget games altogether. Who's with me?

Also, I see no reason why talking about games as art and talking about games a products can't exist happily next to each other.

No, they don't do the same thing. RT operates on "yes/no" boolean data, which cannot be interpreted in any other way than just yes or no. Metacritic uses arbitrary numbers from different sources and tries to weight them together, which makes no sense. That's the whole point of what is wrong with it.

I'll say it again: The video game industry needs its own Rotten Tomatoes.

I have never payed attention to any game score or movie score or food score or...you get the point. If something looks interesting to me, I am going to invest in it. Maybe there is a demo I can test the game out, or I can watch previews. I will read a review to see things like different features, or bugs the game…

You have no idea what you are missing out on. Probably the majority of my favorite games of all time are games that I just kind of found out about randomly or just picked up on a whim. They were games I heard a good recommendation about from someone I trusted. They were games I picked up because I heard they were like…

Metacritic is a piece of shit; but I don't mind just going there and getting a VERY general idea of what to expect from a game. The USER reviews are the most hilarious thing to read— those fuckin' kids still in diapers posting reviews and it's the best!

You had me in the beginning, but then you lost me. The logic behind your comment is baffling. Sure, rather than contribute to a problem, why not just add to it? You have a principle, some kind of belief that doesn't jive with the status quo? Ludicrous. Why have personal feelings about this? This is a just a business…

This is honestly the stupidest thing I've ever read.

Conversely, a fair number of us saw it as a better game than Fallout 3.

sounds like you need a new friend.

The problem with it is that while you might reduce it to:

Bland story
A few annoying QTEs

Exactly this. The current system of aggregating subjective decisions about how to value a game numerically just means the result is a mess. While the Rotten Tomatoes system wouldn't necessarily fix the stupidity of making decisions about compensation based on arbitrary thresholds placed on averages of subjective…

Just contributing the first reply. ;)

Metacritic has 3 problems:

I've been to Metacritic a total of once. I made a comment a few years ago on Facebook about how pound for pound, I felt that SoulCalibur III was the best in the series. A friend sent me a link to its Metacritic page, saying "Metacritic says it's not. You're wrong."

Here's the deal for me.