Quantum Break has a 78 on metacritc right? That usually means a good game but not any bonafide system seller or GOTY material. People on both extremes who are attacking and defending these review scores are just morons.

I don't pay too much attention to the ratings.

Any experienced gamer would know that there are numerous occasions where you find yourself enjoying a game slayed by the critics more than a game that's been praised and highly rated to the heavens.

Ratings are flawed, that's why you've got guys like Eurogamer who've stopped rating a game by numeric scale.

You have people who place their faith in 'review ratings'. It's easy to be misled. I've fallen for it myself in the past.

I could list games that I think are okay or mediocre yet they're highly rated. It doesn't mean much.

It's your personal experience/opinion that counts.

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This metacritc Score thing is all BS , The only #'s that matter are the one's of Units sold not some harvest of varies scores .

There seems to be a whole bunch of 8's and 9's flying around. That's vey useful for an exclusive. Enjoyed games that have scored less such as infamous, never alone and ryse.

Lmao, people acting as if 78 is huge score on metacritic, if 78 is amazing score than both infamous, until dawn are better games than QB and we know how those two games were downplayed by certain other fanbase here on n4g. Typical hypocrites, hype anything xbox. Game has no mp, freakingly long cutscenes, very low replayability but all is forgvien because it's an xbox exclusive lol, next time a playstation exclusive scores in the same ballpark we'll see if these same defenders of 78 score will come to its defence.

It's not the deal breaker they hoped for.

Perhaps, but I'm fairly sure that similar scoring exclusive games on other platforms get snubbed by the same people who are damage controlling this 78 meta.

I thought these folks had inFamous Second Son down as an average (or bad) game. I thought these folks had Killzone Shadow Fall down as average (or bad) as well. Clearly not, at this juncture.

Quantum Break is a comparably short game to The Order. No ruckus there... It has insanely low replayability unless you actually like the pointless bloated TV live-action cutscenes and actually think the writing and the acting is on a level that is worth re-watching multiple times to see some changes in the story. It turns out the TV integration doesn't pay off from your actions in the game in any meaningful way. And yet, we had people talking about certain games not being worth $60, who are hyping the ish out of this pedestrian game.

Best of all though were the GOTY claims from people who actually believed their own BS. I guess the ones who made that claim must think the game is a turd.

Fanboys turn everything into this "war" they made up.... just shut up and enjoy the games we have.

The mode of all the Metacritic scores is 80, the next mode would have been 85. IMO that a good game critically speaking. And just FYI the scores that really bring it down are from Time Magazine and International Business Times. The highest scores are given by gaming sites. I'll leave it to the reader to determine which reviews mean more to them, pretty clear to me.

This game was so overhyped! Adding TV shows within a game is never a good idea.

QB has the same score as Until Dawn a game that PS owners use in their favor as a great PS4 exclusive, a game thrown in many GOTY'S conversations but now QB ducks and is a major disappointment. And they're calling X1 owners hypocrites lol.

Review scores are weird anyway. I mean it seems like 8s, 9s, and 10s are handed out like candy while now 7s are looked at as a bad score.

It's all screwed up.

Well I got my digital version for £36.99 so can't complain, now just have to wait till Tuesday to play it :(

Its a 78 Metacritic. If you look at any game that has that score and find a few sites give it perfect scores like with Until Dawn at 79 metacritic and The Second Son at 80 metacritic. Both better scored games with a higher concentration of 9 or 10 score reviews obviously. Obviously they all had low review scores. To get a 78 obviously Quantum Break had more negative reviews or a lower average score for the lowest reviews. If we call it a AAA title? Then obviously Xbox gamers have to admit Second Son and Until Dawn are very good AAA exclusive titles. Everyone is happy. :)

Can't wait for couple more days. Another great game for the collection.

I can't wait to play it, everything points to me liking the game a ton. Most of the reviews are insanely positive, and there are some oddball ones that rank the game rather low...but when I read those ones, I can't see anything in there that warrants the low scores they are giving the game...so until I play the game, I'm thinking the higher scores are more in line with my thinking....those reviews actually address things I care about for the game. And when sites like DF release MULTIPLE articles calling the game a "technical marvel" or something like that...seems like massive praise from a site that exisits solely to look at games from a tech aspect...and I've personally never seen them do that...esp not multiple times for one game.

There will always be fanboys on both sides of this pathetic console "war" (behind the safety of the internet), and both sides are ridiculous. It seems here on this site though the people trying to downplay a game they have never played is being more ridiculous. Last time I looked, 71% or so of the reviews for this game were at 80 or above on metacritic...yet somehow here, on this site, we only seem to be talking about 4/10's and 6/10's eventhough those reviews are extreme minority...and people are using that to say "see I knew it was a mediocre game". ...and WHO CARES if someone said they expect a game to be GOTY or not? Why would that stop you from buying a game? Not EVERY game has to be GOTY to be worthy of purchase...that would be a boring ass gamer life.

We are spoiled with tons of amazing games, this game looks to be no exception....just play the game, or leave it alone.

this game is a live action movie, 50% game 50% movie

i will never buy it

My friend said he loves the game but he also said the game is not better than Alan Wake.

crying over metacritic scores

Is good, semi en skuffende prut;)

I just hope this game will have decently sales, Remedy deserves it, they just make awesome games. I think Quantum Break will be a cult hit for many like Alan Wake and other Remedy games are. It has this strong narrative, fresh new ideas and just has something special like many of Remedy games do. I really hope it will be successful and Remedy can continue to make awesome games with innovative fresh ideas and concepts.

By "preforming" shouldn't sales be included with reviews? Even then its going to be after the game is out to know anything solid, not days before.

You guys must have a terrible game on your hands if you keep comparing it to the order.

I love the list he gave us:

Star Wars: Battlefront II
The Walking Dead: Season Two Episode One
LEGO Indiana Jones
Dynasty Warriors 3
Alien: Isolation
League of Legends
Tom Clancy’s The Division
Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Vegas 2
Condemned: Criminal Origins
Call of Duty 2: Big Red One
Star Wars: Republic Commando
Max Payne
Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare
Castlevania
Amped: Freestyle Snowboarding

All games that scored 78.

I played most of those games and loved them. League of Legends, Star Wars: Battlefront II, Alien: Isolation, Star Wars: Republic Commando and Castlevania are easily on my top 50 games list of all time.

Ill wait for now. The one i am really looking forward to is Dark Souls 3! Cant wait!!!!!!

Bothering to list games that scored similarly didn't really do much justice for me since the only game mentioned that I enjoyed was Condemned: Criminal Origins, but more importantly, it's irrelevant anyway because it's a mix of genres. If the same person who reviewed Quantum Break reviewed Final Fantasy XIV for example and gave them disparate scores, it could become an issue of genre preference. Imagine if that person hates third person action titles but loves MMORPGs...or the other way around. It's a pretty real possibility. Imagine someone who only cares for romantic comedies reviewing Batman v. Superman (not that it would make too much of a difference from what everyone else thinks ;0) ).

That aside, I don't think it's performing better than you think. It's performing exactly where you think it is. It holds an aggregate score of 78/100. That's 28 whole points over half. What does that mean? It's noticeably better than bad. At worst, it's just not the killer hit it was expected to be, according to people whose opinions are probably different from yours. At best, it got far better reviews than "bad" ones.

If I could make a definitive statement about the game based on the reviews, it would be, "it's not for everyone, but if you can get into it, it's a great game."

You can tell by some of these comments how bad they want the game to fail.

The game looks great, it's just not a GOTY contender that a lot of people were thinking that would be.

Ugly and boring game. I would rate it 3/10.

My take from the metacritic score is that the game is good but not great MS fanboys need to stop trying to make it more than it is. This happens a lot with new IP's it can be a hit or miss specially if you take risks like remedy did.

It's kind of sad that there's an article (that isn't a review) that's trying to tell people "this game isn't so bad after all!"

Funny how no one ever writes articles about what PS or Nintendo games should go third party. It's always Xbox.

Keep this crap. It's like offering someone that's used to Michelin star quality meals a bowl of instant noodles and expecting them to be impressed.

Redfall? Really?

No Lost Odyssey? No thanks.

Quantum Break was a terrible game and it ruined Remedy's fantastic reputation

The thing with QB is that it ended on a cliff hanger, what happened to Beth at the end of time, will Jack save her? I don't care who owns the rights but we need to get another game from Remedy and finish the story. Whoever is holding this back needs to step up.