Comment on Mina The Hollower Is Now Metacritic's Highest-Rated Game Of 2026
p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks agoMy point is that I took a famously overrated game that showed a clear disconnect between paid-off journalist shills and users who actually played the game. One of the sites exposed the disconnect. The other gave it a “80% player rating”.
thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
But that is a systematic issue of those outlets, not an issue with the aggregator. OpenCritic just collects the ratings and presents an average. It’s not their job to control more. OpenCritic is just a mirror of those ratings. If those sites and outlets gave 10/10 all of them, then it should be reflected in the OpenCritic (and in Metascore for that matter).
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
What I’m hearing is, if I want actual useful critic scores, stick to MC because OC is easier to game.
thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Why do you think Metascores critic score is more useful than OpenCritics? I don’t think that Metascore is more useful, just because it weights IGN more and ignores certain sources. I prefer a more neutral representation, than a hidden algorithm that controls the outcome (similar to how Google controls their search results).
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Since you bring up Google - do you remember the search engines of yore, when websites were ranked by how many times a search keyword appeared on a page? Those were neutral representations, and they were shitty as heck. Algorithms aren’t necessarily bad, they can filter out a lot of chaff. In this case the chaff being reviewers who blast a game because it’s ‘woke’, etc.