Today, in the “Get a Life” Department…
July 25, 2008
Today is the day that SIREN: Blood Curse is released on the PS3 as a downloadable game on the Playstation Network. I’ve always had a healthy facination with survival horror games (even though I have practically no interest in movies of the same type). So I decided to go to metacritic.com to see if there were any review scores up yet, or even better, links to articles that might tell me a little more about the game. There isn’t much yet, but there was a little link that said “Discuss this game in our forums.” I clicked on it, and that’s when the fun began…
The link took me to the main forums, not to any specific link to a forum about SIREN. So I clicked on the link for the “PS3 and PS2” forum. Inside, I still didn’t see any discussion topics about SIREN. What I did see was a mishmash of topics and not a ton of posting activity, but three separate posts in the top 16 about Metal Gear Solid 4′s Metacritic score. Apparently, there’s this vast conspiracy, see, by the people that run Metacritic to purposely keep the score for MGS4 low. A positively terrible score of 94, based on 71 reviews.
You see, if you go to some site called N4G, which apparently means News For Gamers, you’ll find there that they have aggragated 216 reviews of MGS4, and have come up with a score of 9.6 (or 96 in Metacritic lingo). A whole 2% higher. Why is Metacritic purposefully keeping MGS4′s score so low? Why? Why can’t they acknowledge the greatness of MGS4? Oh the anguish….
I’m not naive enough to think that some of those people might not work for Konami (who made MGS4), but the rest of you…. come on! Get a life! You really took time out of your life fretting over the metacritic score of your favorite game? Even so far as to link reviews you thought should be included in Metacritic’s average but weren’t, after you exhaustedly examined their list to see who wasn’t included? Obsessive MGS4 fans on Metacritic, you win today’s “Get a Life” award. What are you going to do with it? Hopefully go outside and see the world you are missing.
