"Metacritic also stands accused of being biased against PS3 games. Now, for the most part it could all be attributed to bitterness"

Or maybe because websites like Eurogamer and Edge have consistently been downgrading PS3 exclusives and giving free passes to 360 exclusives, therefore lowering? Also, averages are always biased towards lower scores because low scores are rare and high scores have a ceiling of 100 out of 100, so if there's a website giving a low score, it's likely to drag the score down. So for that reason, and also for some reason Metacritic just likes to keep adding reviews to PS3 games even several weeks after it came out. Just look at uncharted 2, record number of reviews (102, the last two were barely added this week), I wonder why? Mario only has 72 and the Wii sold more, and it's Mario FFS.

I guess that never crossed your mind, "detective".

a valid measurement of quality, it's run by fanboys, and when you have fanboys at the helm for such deeds, it's going to go sideways. You can clearly see this in the evidence that's been mounted at them in the past few years, they're freaking biased.

Lets say a principle, to get funding for a school, pulls 7 random students, and then 3 students who always fail...he averages their state assessment scores out, and tells the government "Just out of 10 students chosen across the spectrum, the average was this, we have a few good ones, but clearly we're struggling"....

Sure, the math can't lie, but the damn principle did...

Not only that, scores don't equate to quality, they're opinions. And what do you get when you aggregate dozens of opinions? A massive opinion, same effing thing. It's not guaranteed to be objective, it's still subjective. It hints at quality, but it does NOT guarantee it, you may still disagree with it, therefore, it's subjective.

Take Metacritic with a grain of salt.

This simple fact shows how untrustworthy metacritic is.

Actually, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is the highest rated game of all time on Metacritic, with a 99. It's not Metacritic's fault that IGN, Gamespot, Gamepro, etc. all gave GTA IV perfect or near perfect scores. I do agree however that GTA IV is overrated.