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UshiromiyaEva posted...

See I also don't think this has any value outside of data collection because what games get high or low scores on the AGGREGATE often just follows industry trends.

Right now, the industry loves big, open world games with a ton of exploration and freedom of choice in what to do. This is something I absolutely hate. A 96 aggregate for, taking the obvious example, Tears of the a Kingdom means nothing to me, because I know that the reason the game is getting such high scores are for things I don't like and the game isn't appealing to me at the things that I personally value. While I know this is why it gets these scores, say I didn't. I would find this out by actually reading the reviews, and knowing what those reviewers value, and I would realize it didn't align with me.

A review's number is worthless if you don't actually read the review. Since an aggregate is just a number and the score itself has no text behind it, it's meaningless.

Sure, I obviously don't buy every game with a high Metacritic, but I give it a second look if it's sufficiently high. I have zero interest in CRPGs, but I still gave a second look to BG3 to understand a bit why everyone's going gaga over it. Still have no interest in buying BG3, but I've discovered many all time favorites just from checking out why some random game I've never heard of is scoring so high. Neon white is probably my favorite game of the past 5 years and I probably would not have checked it out otherwise.