Comment on Mina The Hollower Is Now Metacritic's Highest-Rated Game Of 2026

• thingsiplay@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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).

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  • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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    • thingsiplay@lemmy.ml ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      My point with Google was, that Google is in charge and controls the output. Maybe not the best comparison here to make a specific point, as all other things around doesn’t matter to what I was trying to say. Google off course is there to find websites and an algorithm to weight them is important, to ignore spammers and such. So Google tries to give a score to each site, where there does not exist a score. So yes, it was my bad for bringing this up, because that is a different task than an aggregator for gaming scores.

      Metacritic should be seen as an algorithm with their own rating, rather than an aggregator. They have their own opinion, compared to OpenCritic who just reflect the current state of the ratings. I think an algorithm (especially if its hidden and prefers certain outlets) is bad by definition (by my definition to be precise). I do not want such an aggregator to filter out stuff. If you like that, sure, but I don’t think Metacritic should have such power.

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