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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This makes sense coming from Suda51. I imagine other devs whose games have mostly cult followings would agree as well. Metacritic has the exact same problems as Rotten Tomatoes.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Was just gonna make the rotten tomatoes comparison. These types of sites turn a spectrum binary. It's either fresh or rotten. People might enjoy a game with a polarized critical reaction, but when you check metacritic you see 61 with a sickly yellow color behind the number and an opinionated adjective beside it.

These types of sites would do better to highlight polarized media in a different way, as most really interesting art does not get universal acclaim. High aggregator scores are really a sign of mass market appeal more than anything else.