ZERO. Unless ur a sheep or someone who knows very little about gaming and is looking for a gift for the gamer in ur life, I don't see why Metacritic would mean anything.

@Marius- When u mentioned how God of War 3 is automatically a better game than AC2 because its 2 POINTS higher on Metacritic on my thread yesterday, I thought u were joking, but now, it seems like ur serious. Ur entitled to believe what you want, but I don't think it makes sense to understand the worth of a game with a score SOMEONE ELSE gives it.

Do reviews attact me more to buy a game? Yes, of course. If there is no demo available then reading reviews make sense. However, I don't make my final judgment until I've played the game.

EDIT: Ummm yea, a consensus of people who may not share your thoughts and opinions lol. Look God of War 3 got a 93 on Metacritic, and for ME, it wasn't worth buying because I sold it 2 weeks later. If u think 1 or 2 points on Metacritic makes a game better than another then whether its ur opinion, u have some dependency issues.

EDIT: Woah woah, ur saying I have issues because I PERSONALLY believe that AC2 is better than God of War 3?? How have you not been banned from the gamer zone yet? Ur acting like a robot and ur artificial brain can't handle that not everyone cares about GOW3 and that 1/4 of NA believes that COD and Halo are the best franchises ever lol.

Hey Marius,whats the most successful PS3 game of all time?? Guess what? Its NOT a PS3 exclusive ROFL!

I've read reviews that give high praise to works that I think are crap. I've read reviews that give criticism to works that I think are the bomb diggy. Everyone has a different opinion and I refuse to buy a game based strictly on the opinions of others, especially when these so called reviewers have some of the most questionable journalistic (if you can call these idiots journalists) integrity in the history of journalism. With the absurd amount of Sony flavored HATEorade so many review sites have been chugging courtesy of Microsoft I find it nearly impossible to buy a game based strictly on a number. As someone has already said, reviews these days are closer to previews. Might as well tune out the biased crap these morons spew out (MW2 GOTY WTF?) and just take in the sights and sounds of the game itself. Brains are what keep crap games off my shelf. Unfortunately some folks are incapable of thinking for themselves.

the only reviews i look into is gameinformer(unbiased)Magazine . not only do i look at the review score but also the summary of the game to see if it has wat i like. and since im more of a ps3 owner, it would be stupid to rely on metacritic score seeing how most of these review sites are biased.

EDIT: @bruddahmanmatt. completely agree with you bro.
PS. F*** EDGE magazine

i usually like gamerankings better because they dont let any dumba$$ site to be counted towards the rankings, and if a multi-plat game gets a bad score from one site its counted on both unlike meta's crap a$$ site. besides i buy my games on the level on interest i have for said game.

btw can anyone tell me why xplay is no longer counted on either site, what made them get dropped?

Never been to metacritic, I have other trusted sources for judging game purchases

Yeah I know GTA4 is rated the highest, and whats your point, I own the game, did I ever said metacritic scores is the only thing that matters, I was just taking a Spider-Man quote and applying it here, but clearly your feeble mind couldn't understand
And Im still laughing at your joke "AC2 > GOW3". seriously you should do stand up.

P.S. dont edit your comment anymore i really dont care for your opinion

I always take into account what reviewers I trust have to say.

That said, 80% of reviewers included in the metacritic scores are garbage. I mean, even Destructoid's reviews are on there. JIM STERLING's Destructoid reviews.

the average gamers bought games based on hype, meta critics only do a little to them. Great but badly hype games will still won't make it in sales. Marketing(HYPE) more important than metacritic.

None at all. The only conceivable reason to visit is to have a pool of reviews to choose from. The number scores mean nothing to me without having read the review.

MAG was a terrible game it deserves all the low scores it got.

but I certainly think Metacritic is useful. I like seeing a score that gives you a general sense of how the bulk of reviews are going. I find that much more useful than relying on just one source. Reviewers are human and have their particular tastes. For example, Edge on average reviews PS3 games way lower than the the average on a regular basis. If I was only looking at Edge I don't think I'd be getting the real picture on how well a game is being received.

And considering that the industry themselves use metacritic as a measure speaks volumes. It's to the point where some publishers won't publish games from developers who consistently put out products with low Metacritic scores, and Microsoft themselves at one point were using Metacritic scores to decide which games to delist off XBL.

One think I would recommend is that they'd get rid of Destructioid's reviews. The site has been a joke for over a year now and, like Edge at times, they seem to be reviewing games low just to generate traffic while their reviews don't actually back up the scores they give. That needs to stop.

Well I think the majority of us with any kind of comprehension know that ever since the start of this generation, reviews have gone up sh*t creek. The amount of bribing, buying out and pathetic fanboyism affecting reviews scores makes me physically sick. Like a lot of you are agreeing with, a majority of reviews scores are a joke, complete garbage and shouldn't be given any attention. And it angers me to know uneducated people out there are taking these reviews seriously when they're clearly written by childish butt-hurt fanbabies with an agenda.

As long as pathetic reviewers like Edge are continued to be calculated in the average I'll never take metacritic seriously.

For me, metacritic is only good for a laugh for when ps3 exclusives come out. I'm a ps3 fan so no prizes for why that amuses me.

Nobody would even bother reading them. The best review is rentals and taking your own opinion before buying. In this day and age, games are not cheap and to buy a game based on the opinion of somebody else seems a bit silly to me.

the fact ethe meta critic has peggle and ac2 as the same score (91) shows how flawed it is, and that god of war 3 is only 2 higher than thoose proves it even more.

Much. It's the best way to tell a game's good or bad without playing it.

You are all hypocrites for saying you don't care about metascores. First you say fanboys deny logic and then you say only fanboys care about metascores. It's the most logical thing to rely on statistics. Youre basically saying that your personal opinion is the best one.

@Downtown boogey

my opinion is the best one, for me anyway! i dont care if other like the game or dont like the game or what score it gets on meta.

Interestingly enough, the smartest comment has come from the dumbest user. Yes, my opinion IS the best opinion - FOR ME. Way to get a clue bud.