Episode 12 – Critically Speaking
The topic for AJBS’ eighth episode was simple: discuss game ranking systems, how they relate to the industry, and of course, how Metacritic is tied into both. At the time, AJBS collectively argued against the ratings aggregate site (as did our guest, fellow freelance writer Jeff Matulef), citing various reasons it wasn’t good for the video game industry. For Episode 12, we wanted to present a different side of the story (and gain a new perspective) by speaking with Marc Doyle, games editor and co-founder of Metacritic (Jeff also returns for this episode). There’s also some talk of L.A. Noire.
Missed our conversation from Episode 8? No problem! You can brush up by clicking the link for “A Solid 8 out of 10″ below.
Featuring music by Nordloef
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Hold on here, those metascore distributions are skewed to make the industry as a whole look roughly impartial between consoles. That’s just not true.
You can’t evaluate 260 XBOX titles then only 150 Wii or 127 DS titles. That’s NOT a random sampling – specifically if you take 260 XBOX games you will be including much more of the lower scoring games than if you select only the top 150 Wii games.
I realize you have exclusives listed but I REGULARLY see the same game “reviewed” for XBOX or PS3 that gets a higher score than other platforms, sometimes very significantly higher.
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[...] A few days ago, Metacritic founder Marc Doyle was quoted as saying that game critics must “review all the sh*t” in order to help gaming Metascores provide an accurate picture of game quality across the entire spectrum, not just at the high end. We caught up with Doyle in an attempt to understand exactly what he was getting at in his comments on the A Jumps B Shoots podcast. [...]
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[...] A few days ago, Metacritic founder Marc Doyle was quoted as saying that game critics must “review all the sh*t” in order to help gaming Metascores provide an accurate picture of game quality across the entire spectrum, not just at the high end. We caught up with Doyle in an attempt to understand exactly what he was getting at in his comments on the A Jumps B Shoots podcast. [...]
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[...] from the lower end of their grading scales.” In simpler terms, as Doyle summarized on the A Jumps B Shoots podcast, critics should “review all the [...]
[...] from the lower end of their grading scales.” In simpler terms, as Doyle summarized on the A Jumps B Shoots podcast, critics should “review all the [...]
[...] from the lower end of their grading scales.” In simpler terms, as Doyle summarized on the A Jumps B Shoots podcast, critics should “review all the [...]