No longer content with reducing games to mere numbers, online critics’ aggregate site Metacritic has now added a new section reducing game developers to mere numbers too. EQUALITY! It’s the future.
The plan, basically, is to give users some kind of idea of a dev’s general critical rating, by scoring them according to an average of their complete catalogue titles.
Does it really work? Peter Molyneux comes in at a pretty respectable 82/100, but if you examine the maths behind it, it turns out his highest review score is 90 for Black & White, and a rather wretched 72 for Theme Park. Oh come on, Theme Park was awesome – one of the game’s features was people vomiting everywhere.
Nintendo darling Shigeru Miyamoto comes in at 80/100, and Cliff Bleszinski at 86/100 (BRO-FIVE, YEAH).
“Man, it’s bad enough games are judged by Metacritic,” one anonymous game dev told Gamasutra. “Now I’m going to be, too?”
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