Gameranx Calls Out Metacritic Scoring System And Other Review Outlets For Spiderman 2 Having A High Score Despite The Bugs

[BroodCorp]

I'm not talking about glitches, I am talking about actual resolution and framerate. The actual visuals of the game. If you're not going to neg Nintendo for having less powerful hardware, then they are going to continue to sell less powerful hardware. Fair enough if you enjoy it, but as I said great games being blurry messes is a shame because the game would be better if it was on more powerful hardware.

…and if you feel like a Sony brand studio having glitches in their game is negligible then that is also your prerogative. Both games are highly successful.

 

[Bo_Hazem]

Elden Ring who won GOTY? Still buggy until now.

 

[Nimrota]

…and if you feel like a Sony brand studio having glitches in their game is negligible then that is also your prerogative. Both games are highly successful.

Where did I say anything about Sony? In fact I never even mentioned any games except in response to your comments. My initial post was stating that games as a visual medium deserve to have the visual aspect weighted in comparison to the gameplay. It's got nothing to do specifically to do with Sony, Nintendo, Xbox, or their games. I'm talking about the principle of how games are reviewed. I've not even played SM2.

 

[shrike0fth0rns]

Yes but my comment is aimed at defining what "good" is instead of it being cope about "I had fun." We saw that cope in Starfield. Visual performance is a substantial factor to how we should think about games.

Well yeah I bought TOTK and it is a great game. Xenoblade Chronicles 2 and 3 are also great games, but they have terrible visual performance. If they were on PS4/5 they would have looked better and been better games. I don't think they're bad because of this, but the industry is broad and games need to be viewed with their contemporaries. Sure, if a game comes from a good studio and the quality drops it matters, but what you're saying is we can forgive those quality drops in other situations. My suggestion is that we don't do that and keep a consistent focus on visual quality regardless.

I have yet to experience a single bug at 13hrs in the game. The vast major of ppl aren’t experiencing in massive bugs. Just a few minor glitches here and there which can be expected with most new games.

 

[ĿᐄṾᐄṆↁ3☈]

Metacritic is defs 'for sale'. They wouldn't let me post a review for FF16 because I scored it a 4. Same with Spider-Man. Same with Starfield. The user score use to be a decent barometer, but since they started acting in a fashion akin to Rotten Tomatoes and stifling the user score (as long as they get a pay out mind you) it is very hard to even get a good idea what the REAL public thinks about a game now. It's super sad.

 

[SLB1904]

Metacritic is defs 'for sale'. They wouldn't let me post a review for FF16 because I scored it a 4. Same with Spider-Man. Same with Starfield. The user score use to be a decent barometer, but since they started acting in a fashion akin to Rotten Tomatoes and stifling the user score (as long as the get a pay out mind you) it is very hard to even get a good idea what the REAL public thinks about a game now. It's super sad.

In what world ffxvi is a 4?

 

[Plextorage]

1st time seeing this. So, what happened in the end?

 

[Swift_Star]

Just had another bug on BG3 today, enemy moved to place they’re not supposed to and the. Game froze. It happened twice. Where is gameranx article about it?