ohioastronomy
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Master of Orion 3, by general consensus one of the most disastrous modern gaming releases, got 64/100 on Metacritic. Professional game review scores are astonishingly inflated - and, if you look at the comments to the reviews, the reviewers get scads of hate mail if they rate any new game below A+++. It's a serious problem, made much worse by the nature of games like Civ (flaws appear after many hours, not on the surface.)
I'm a huge fan of the highly rated Amazon reviews, which seem to track quality much, much more closely than the professional reviews do. I place less stock in the cumulative averages, since a lot of the reviews there are brief and uninformative. But the ones with a few hundred folks liking them tend to be, well, useful in making a buying decision.
I'm a huge fan of the highly rated Amazon reviews, which seem to track quality much, much more closely than the professional reviews do. I place less stock in the cumulative averages, since a lot of the reviews there are brief and uninformative. But the ones with a few hundred folks liking them tend to be, well, useful in making a buying decision.