Resident Evil and No More Heroes creators join long list of devs who think Metacritic is bad for game dev

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• limitedduck@awful.systems ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This makes sense coming from Suda51. I imagine other devs whose games have mostly cult followings would agree as well. Metacritic has the exact same problems as Rotten Tomatoes.

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  • Paradachshund@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Was just gonna make the rotten tomatoes comparison. These types of sites turn a spectrum binary. It’s either fresh or rotten. People might enjoy a game with a polarized critical reaction, but when you check metacritic you see 61 with a sickly yellow color behind the number and an opinionated adjective beside it.

    These types of sites would do better to highlight polarized media in a different way, as most really interesting art does not get universal acclaim. High aggregator scores are really a sign of mass market appeal more than anything else.

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• the_post_of_tom_joad@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s never their fault, is it? Make better games or, yaknow… get fucked

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