To you, what would a 100-90 metascored game contain?

[Zippy]

Please answer with some detail, and not just simply naming games. Is it the story? The characters? The graphics? What is it?

[Crimson Rising]

Story, characters graphics the whole 9 yards. Being a mature game helps to imo as those are the game i like to play. Blood, swearing, violence and half naked women. ♥♥♥♥ yea.

[Ihavenoidea]

Frankly, something other then todays cutting edge graphics. I cringe when people list STALKER or Mass Effect 2 in their top ten list of all time favorite games.

[velvetmeds]

What Stalker and ME2 have.

[AngryCSSPlayer]

Sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll.

[Zippy]

If someone walked up to you and said, "I'm gonna give you this paper with a list of games. All you have to do is give your personal metascore for each of them. Do that, and I'll give you $30."

The games listed said paper:

• Fallout 3
• BioShock
• BioShock 2
• Penumbra: Overture
• Penumbra: Black Plaque
• Portal
• Portal 2
• Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
• Call of Duty: Black Ops
• The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
• F.E.A.R.
• F.E.A.R. 2
• The Path
• Team Fortress 2
• Grand Theft Auto IV

What would be your scores for (all of) them?

[velvetmeds]

Originally Posted by Zippy

If someone walked up to you and said, "I'm gonna give you this paper with a list of games. All you have to do is give your personal metascore for each of them. Do that, and I'll give you $30."

The games listed said paper:

• What would be your scores for (all of) them?

• Fallout 3 75
• BioShock 50
• BioShock 2 Didn't play
• Penumbra: Overture Didn't finish
• Penumbra: Black Plaque Didn't finish
• Portal 60
• Portal 2 20
• Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare 25
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 35
• Call of Duty: Black Ops Didn't play
• The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion 60
• F.E.A.R. 70
• F.E.A.R. 2 75
• The Path Didn't
• Team Fortress 2 25
• Grand Theft Auto IV 20

[vashts1985]

gameplay
great story and or great multiplayer.
great use of art and assets

[careface312]

Fallout 3 - 87
BioShock - 91
BioShock 2 - 85
Penumbra: Overture - 72
Penumbra: Black Plaque (NP)
Portal - 93
Portal 2 - 96
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare - 70
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 - 70
Call of Duty: Black Ops - 70
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion - 82
F.E.A.R. - (NP)
F.E.A.R. 2 - (NP)
The Path - 72
Team Fortress 2 - 96
Grand Theft Auto IV - 65

Edit! I counted tf2 as it is now thinking about it, if it was vanilla retail version I'd give it 94!!!

[Bromazepam]

Originally Posted by Zippy

If someone walked up to you and said, "I'm gonna give you this paper with a list of games. All you have to do is give your personal metascore for each of them. Do that, and I'll give you $30."


What would be your scores for (all of) them?

The games listed said paper:

• Fallout 3 - 70
• BioShock - I haven't finished yet, but a solid 78
• BioShock 2 - N/A
• Penumbra: Overture - Too long since I've played this
• Penumbra: Black Plaque - N/A
• Portal - 80
• Portal 2 - N/A
• Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare - N/A
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 - N/A
• Call of Duty: Black Ops - N/A
• The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion - 75
• F.E.A.R. - Too long since I've played this
• F.E.A.R. 2 - N/A
• The Path - N/A
• Team Fortress 2 - 70
• Grand Theft Auto IV - 75

No 30 dollars for me

Anyway, for me a 90+ game should be close to perfection.
Fun to play from start to finish, interesting story, "non-horrible" graphics (ie: they don't have to look splendid or super modern, but they must look good), brilliant soundtrack, decent longevity (compared to the price, 10 hours for a full-priced game is *NOT* a decent longevity).
And a lot of other factors which just differ from game to game and are impossible to list.

Keep in mind that Metacritic scores are extremely botched, because they use a conversion system that just doesn't work: many of the "professional" critics they take their scores from use a 5 points rating. You cannot tell me that 4/5 = 80/100 and 5/5 = 100/100. Mathematically, yes, they do, of course. But not in that context. That's why many titles end up having absurdly high scores.

[Phoenixst]

prefer if games are rated separately for SP/MP (story,game-play...) and combined rating for common stuff between SP/MP (graphics,audio...).

let the gamer see what he/she wants out of the game and average out a rating combo accordingly.

like
Single player: 78
Multi player: 91
Technical: 84

Battlefield 2 for example, the last thing I would care about is the included single player. would give it a 90+ even if single player is just rated 50.

Other games like indie games I would probably look at either high SP focused or MP focused and wouldn't mind low technical.

[JudgementBullet]

-No bugs or few minor bugs only, major bugs is a no-no
-Engaging storyline and characters
-At least 10 hours of gameplay

[Lister]

Fallout 3 - 40
BioShock - 90
BioShock 2 - 82
Penumbra: Overture -80
Penumbra: Black Plaque -80
Portal -50
Portal 2 - 15
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare - 65
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 -45
Call of Duty: Black Ops - 25
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion - N/A
F.E.A.R. - 80
F.E.A.R. 2 - 75
The Path - N/A
Team Fortress 2 - 0
Grand Theft Auto IV - 95

STALKER - 100

[Fish-E]

Originally Posted by Zippy

If someone walked up to you and said, "I'm gonna give you this paper with a list of games. All you have to do is give your personal metascore for each of them. Do that, and I'll give you $30."

The games listed said paper:

• Fallout 3 - 91%
• BioShock - 75%
• BioShock 2 - Didn't play
• Penumbra: Overture - Didn't finish
• Penumbra: Black Plaque - Didn't play
• Portal - 82%
• Portal 2 - 88%
• Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare - 85%
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 - 72%
• Call of Duty: Black Ops - 76%
• The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion - 93%
• F.E.A.R. - Still playing it, so far 82%
• F.E.A.R. 2 - Haven't started yet
• The Path - Never played
• Team Fortress 2 - 88%
• Grand Theft Auto IV - 90%

What would be your scores for (all of) them?

Done.

Also I'd expect a 90+ game to have decent graphics, replayability and a good plot with likable characters (with a single player that's not done within 4 - 5 hours). The game would also have to be shipped without any major bugs.

[Cheezburgers]

Mostly perfection.