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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 could lose its top Metacritic ranking to a terrible Disney game

Metacritic users are rallying behind... Cory in the House for the Nintendo DS?

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Best Games by User Score - Metacritic

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[Topher]

 

[Ipsi]

You know what? Good for them. I hope they succeed

 

[Dacvak]

Lol, I enjoy a good group shitpost.

 

[Generic]

This list is reddit.

 

[Ass of Can Whooping]

Fuck the French

 

[TintoConCasera]

 

[Gamer_By_Proxy]

Saw that trash game just a year or two ago at Target . . . wish I bought it now.

 

[Sand Dan Glokta]

Pretty dope lol

 

[adamsapple]

Saw that trash game just a year or two ago at Target . . . wish I bought it now.

Expedition 33?

I kid, i kid

 

[Avid Reading Horse]

^ Is this grown up Cory? I'll just assume it is.

 

[Ipsi]

Saw that trash game just a year or two ago at Target . . . wish I bought it now.

They actually are going up in price because of this lol

 

[SJRB]

Pretty cringe.

 

[onQ123]

An Corynated attack SMH

This is why no one take the gaming community seriously nowadays lol

 

[ReyBrujo]

Wow, HoMM3 that high? Nice!

 

[TintoConCasera]

Wow, HoMM3 that high? Nice!

Should be the #1.

 

[Sebastian1295]

You have to be truly pathetic to bomb a game on metacritic just for meme purposes.

 

[DaciaJC]

You have to be truly pathetic to bomb a game on metacritic just for meme purposes.

But that's not happening here.

 

[Liopleurodon]

MGS 1-3 are all better than every other title there put together, IMO.

 

[HeisenbergFX4]

 

[tylrdiablos]

 

[Froggo]

What a waste of time.

XDXDXD so lol randum epic!!!111 cory ftw lmao 1000 internets to you good redditors!!11

 

[T4keD0wN]

Fuck the French

 

[Deerock71]

 

[ReyBrujo]

Should be the #1.

For such a niche game that was released before any of these sites existed and whose maker disappeared decades ago it pleasantly surprised me. I could understand Starcraft, but HoMM3? Bewildered.

 

[ChoosableOne]

 

[Itchy Tickles]

Sad little spoilt bitches can't accept their game of choice didn't win the awards. Jealousy from these pampered clowns is why you have to think twice before admitting you play games.

Anyway, good luck in their "movement", it will change so many lives forever, absolutely. Now ask them to put this effort into wearing body spray or clean underwear.

And yes, Metacritic has been horseshit for years (if it ever was good), just look at what counts as a journalist and see their biased review scores. 2 recent games being Harry Potter being reviewed like a 1/10 or Dragon Age getting a 10/10 because of people's agenda pushing mattering more than the game review.

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

This is the kind of thing that would've seemed really funny and clever like 15 years ago.

 

[vodka-bull]

lol. Bunch of basement dwelling goons got too much time on their hands…

 

[Unknown?]

I did my part, should we make a thread to gather up fellow gaffers?

 

[HRK69]

You have to admire the dedication. Wasting hours bumping a 2008 DS shovelware to own the French RPG crowd.

 

[TintoConCasera]

For such a niche game that was released before any of these sites existed and whose maker disappeared decades ago it pleasantly surprised me. I could understand Starcraft, but HoMM3? Bewildered.

All thanks to the community, probably. They are still going strong making new factions and content. Legendary game really.

 

[poppabk]

This is the kind of thing that would've seemed really funny and clever like 15 years ago.

Boaty Mcboatface officially marked the last time this kind of thing was funny and that was 10 years ago.

 

[kpopSuperstar]

 

[ReBurn]

Good for them. Besides, Metacritic user scores have always been worthless for this reason so what does it hurt?

 

[CLW]

Yeah but my trade in price be $0.25 ONLY IF I'm a pro member

 

[Bark]

Now if get fit with Mel B gets up there, we can finally have a true top 3

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

JRPG fans 1 year ago: "wow this upcoming Clair Obscur game looks amazing! A turn based JRPG with great production values, this is what Final Fantasy 16 should've been! Why, just imagine, maybe this game will be a big hit and prove there's a market for turn based JRPGs!"

JRPG fans today: "I can't believe E33 is getting so much critical and commercial success. Must be a bunch of normie dudebros who never played the true JAPANESE classics like Xenogears and Paper Mario. We need to take it down a notch for the honor of Japan!"

 

[KeithMars]

Some people need to touch grass, the internet isn't real life.

 

[Arsic]

I'm good with this. Further shows how worthless meta critic is.

 

[xenosys]

It's stupid, but if nothing else, it exposes how easily user scores can be manipulated on that website. Whether it be review botting or bombing.

Critics scores are always wonky, but with the way social media has turned into tribal culture warfare with entertainment and politics, I'd sooner trust their opinion than 'users' in 2026.

 

[Alexios]

They should hide decimals anyway, it's dumb to rate out of 100 as it's just gonna be inconsistent as hell, further diluted and unfair by the vastly different amounts of reviews. For critics too, not just users, that one's even more bullshit as they're by different media, dead magazines, new slopsites, etc.

What would dropping decimals fix?

Everything I said is wrong with it. Threads like this wouldn't exist, games would just be 9/10 or 10/10 and fanboys and trolls wouldn't latch on some decimal like it means one is trash and the other the greatest game ever or whatever.

Plus review bombings etc. would need to be way bigger to change a full grade (well unless it was on the cusp of rounding up vs down) and even if they managed to knock it down it would still be among other cool, epic games so

 

[S0ULZB0URNE]

Fuck the French

Eat a !

 

[Dirk Benedict]

They should just ditch user reviews. It's mostly useless anyway with review bombing for any little stupid shit.

 

[bender]

They should just ditch user reviews. It's mostly useless anyway with review bombing for any little stupid shit.

Killing all humans solves this problem and so many others.

 

[Avid Reading Horse]

They should just ditch user reviews. It's mostly useless anyway with review bombing for any little stupid shit.

Nah, they should just ditch critic reviews. Mostly useless anyway with review glazing for any woke shit.

 

[poppabk]

Killing all humans solves this problem and so many others.

Yeah but who you gonna trust to do it - another stupid human? That's why we are committed so much to AI and the race to get skynet up and running ahead of schedule.

 

[bender]

Yeah but who you gonna trust to do it - another stupid human? That's why we are committed so much to AI and the race to get skynet up and running ahead of schedule.

 

[Arsic]

They should just ditch user reviews. It's mostly useless anyway with review bombing for any little stupid shit.

They should ditch critic reviews too considering some of the outlets they even allow on there lmao.

 

[Robb]

Just more proof regarding how useless the "user" scores are on these sites.