You know, you people who keep touting this might want to look a bit deeper into that. The "certain contingent" (as usual) keeps referring to this but have you ... looked into it at
all? If you had I would be embarrassed to quote this as any such argument. Here is why:
Metacritic left out MS published games on this chart that scored poorly. If they had included those games (like they should have?) they wouldn't been anywhere near winning. And then the games they did include ... some of them they had no part in even making. Psychonauts 2? I mean come on, that is not an "Xbox game." The games were Forza, Halo, Flight Sim, Psychonauts 2, and Age of Empires. Ok so .... MS can buy up publishers games already well into production, not include games that score poorly, and all of a sudden they are Metacritic "publisher of the year." On top of that it's 10 scores with "five distinct titles," so ... it's just the five games I mentioned. None if makes any sense if you just look at it..
And if people want to doubt this just look at this:
Read what Xbox Game Studios had to say at Metacritic.com
www.metacritic.com
Why were "The Gunk" and "Space Jam" left off the scoring list of titles? Because then they would have also had 80-81 or around there? Not a record breaking year?
Again this group of people continues to be freakin' weird. Does any one of you even play games? I've never seen a single person in this group actually talk about a game they are playing that they like except for maybe one person (keeping things nameless!) But you'll "brag" about a Metacritic story that doesn't even hold up to 30 seconds of scrutiny. Dunno what to say to all that except for a giant double-u-tee-eff.
Again, I don' give a
about any of this because I play all of these games and have my own opinions on them (and if you don't believe me, go read the review I left for Horizon FW in the official thread), but I do care about actual facts and such. And thus far I have not seen an explanation why it's ok for the so called "publisher of the year" to, at minimum, include scores for all the games they publish in their yearly average?
I'd love a good answer for that one.