Hmmmm. I swore 1996 was the peak awesome year, but it is the low? My mind is playing trick on me.
Or the cut off at 90%
Hold the fucking phone here. It looks like Sega's output is still being factored into the average despite the obvious fact that they're out of business. Look at 2016 for example: The average 90+ count is somewhere between 2 and 3 and closer to the latter. Taking Sega into consideration, the average is (6+4+3+0+0)/5 = 2.6 when it should actually be (6+4+3+0)/4 = 3.25 because Sega is actually business rather than just publishing a bunch of games that scored below 90. This fucks up the entire average after 2001.
SO speaking of 2001, interestingly enough I"m currently playing Jak and Daxter (90+ on Metacritic) on the Vita as well as Max Payne (89 on Metacritic) via PS2 on PS4 and I can for one say that people who think games were more polished back then and had less issues have some serious nostalgia glasses on.
This is grave disrespect towards 2015.
It's just score inflation slowly going away
Article in the OP said:Make what you will of the obvious downwards trend in critical favour. Maybe critics are becoming more scrupulous in their scrutiny; maybe there's been a collective shift in what makes a game near-perfect; maybe the games being released really aren't cutting it. I'd argue for the former.
So Bloodborne and The Witcher 3 somehow make the entire year one of the best in general? The best years aren't the best just because they might have had a few of the better (or best) games of the last 5-10 years.
Are we counting re-releases and remasters now or something too? Because that's something 2015 had a lot of.
BS. This is your nostalgia filter talking. Tons of AAA games had glitches/bugs/crashes galore 15 years ago. Just nobody cared. Hell, stuff like AGDQ love the fact that older games had tons of glitches, a large percentage of speedrunning is based on finding the bugs and (ab)using them.
Madden today doesn't get 90 because "It's just more Madden". There is nothing functionally wrong with Madden now compared to Madden then other than time passing/criteria changing.
Go to the article and they have a table of every 90+ game. Sort by release year.
Code:97 Grand Theft Auto III 8.5 2001 97 Halo: Combat Evolved 8.6 2001 96 Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty 8.7 2001 95 Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec 8.4 2001 94 Devil May Cry 8.5 2001 94 Madden NFL 2002 7.9 2001 93 Mario Kart Super Circuit 8.3 2001 93 Paper Mario 9.2 2001 93 NBA 2K2 7.7 2001 92 SSX Tricky 8.9 2001 92 NHL 2002 8.5 2001 92 Advance Wars 9 2001 92 Super Smash Bros. Melee 9.1 2001 92 Final Fantasy X 8.7 2001 92 Conker's Bad Fur Day 9.2 2001 91 Klonoa 2: Lunatea's Veil 9.1 2001 91 IL-2 Sturmovik 8.8 2001 91 Twisted Metal: Black 8.4 2001 91 Golden Sun 9.3 2001 91 Castlevania: Circle of the Moon 8.5 2001 90 ICO 8.8 2001 90 Tennis 2K2 8 2001 90 Black & White 7.7 2001 90 Dance Dance Revolution 8.8 2001 90 Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy 8.7 2001 90 Star Wars Rogue Leader: Rogue Squadron II 8.6 2001 90 NCAA Football 2002 8.7 2001 90 Unreal Tournament 8.6 2001 90 Sid Meier's Civilization III 8.4 2001 90 NFL 2K2 8 2001 90 Flight Simulator 2002 8.4 2001
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Go to the article and they have a table of every 90+ game. Sort by release year.
Code:97 Grand Theft Auto III 8.5 2001 97 Halo: Combat Evolved 8.6 2001 96 Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty 8.7 2001 95 Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec 8.4 2001 94 Devil May Cry 8.5 2001 94 Madden NFL 2002 7.9 2001 93 Mario Kart Super Circuit 8.3 2001 93 Paper Mario 9.2 2001 93 NBA 2K2 7.7 2001 92 SSX Tricky 8.9 2001 92 NHL 2002 8.5 2001 92 Advance Wars 9 2001 92 Super Smash Bros. Melee 9.1 2001 92 Final Fantasy X 8.7 2001 92 Conker's Bad Fur Day 9.2 2001 91 Klonoa 2: Lunatea's Veil 9.1 2001 91 IL-2 Sturmovik 8.8 2001 91 Twisted Metal: Black 8.4 2001 91 Golden Sun 9.3 2001 91 Castlevania: Circle of the Moon 8.5 2001 90 ICO 8.8 2001 90 Tennis 2K2 8 2001 90 Black & White 7.7 2001 90 Dance Dance Revolution 8.8 2001 90 Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy 8.7 2001 90 Star Wars Rogue Leader: Rogue Squadron II 8.6 2001 90 NCAA Football 2002 8.7 2001 90 Unreal Tournament 8.6 2001 90 Sid Meier's Civilization III 8.4 2001 90 NFL 2K2 8 2001 90 Flight Simulator 2002 8.4 2001
Vast majority of 2015 was new releases.
Critical reviews have become much more thorough and professional, and with it comes higher standards. Read reviews from the 90s or early 2000s and they read like an 8th grader wrote them.
New IPs? Something that truly stood out aside from just more "Look at me" graphics?
Anyway, very relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCmmYF4rOwo
Critical reviews have become much more thorough and professional, and with it comes higher standards. Read reviews from the 90s or early 2000s and they read like an 8th grader wrote them.
No doubt about but Metal Gear Solid is probabbly one of the greatest games ever created.The gameplay is spectacular, sound is extrodinary, and the graphics are to die for. Although people say the game is not long, they are kind of right (if you skip everything, skip all of the scenes,don't care about what there talking about, don't fell like getting all of the secrets etc.) Yeah so if you do that you skipped the whole game.
The game is fairly long because in order to get cool items like the Stealth suit (invisible) and Bandanna (Unlimited ammo) you will have to beat the game with both of the endings. I'm not gonna tell you the endings but if you want to get the bandanna do not submit to Revolver ocelots torture (he tells you that he will know if you use auto fire he knows auto fire but not turbo, if you have a turbo controller use it). If you want the bandanna submit to the torture. (The torure will happen later in the game).
Metal Gear Solid use of the Dual Shock is very good. Metal Gear Solid is like a movie and you are the director. Now how long will it take for you to beat the game. The first time about 10-13 hours. Second about 5-6 hours and 3rd time 3-4 hours. Then comes the VR Training mode (you haven't beat the game untill you beat VR Training mode). VR takes about 3 to beat. And after you beat VR you get 3 extra modes in VR training they are Gun shooting,Time Attack,and survival. So all in all Metal Gear Solid is pretty long 23 hours to be exact. But the weird thing about it is that I have beat the game 7 times already and I'm still not bored of it. So I guess Metal Gear Solid without a doubt in my mind deserves a perfect
Hmm, I actually think that example proves the opposite point. Those reviews come from two different populations. VA-11 Hall-A is quite clearly a niche game with very specific aesthetic choices that some people will love and some people will hate. I expect that most people who buy it for themselves on Steam are people who think a PC-98-esque cyberpunk bartender visual novel is an awesome idea. On the other hand, reviewers who are playing the game because it is their job to do so may represent a sample of people more similar to the general gaming public.
It's not typical of modern gaming for a game to ship unfinished and promise contents and/or bug fixes in future patches?! Where have you been this past few years?!