Gawd, I knew I would find this in the comments. The fact that it's feminists who are criticizing him the most proves that, once again, feminists are feminism's worst enemies. We say we want allies but I guess by "allies", we mean "silent masochistic punching bags". It's kinda sad when you're just as disgusted by the…

But the article isn't snarking on him.

Are people never allowed to grow and evolve in their perspectives? When I was 17-20, I regularly espoused my beliefs that civil unions were fine, being trans was all made up nonsense, that abortion was wrong,and that affirmative action is bullshit.

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…

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…

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

sounds like you need a new friend.

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.