http://doublebuffered.com/2008/07/06/is-metacritic-scientism/ A Programmer's View of Game Design, Development, and Culture Wed, 18 Apr 2012 02:55:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://doublebuffered.com/2008/07/06/is-metacritic-scientism/#comment-213 Sun, 06 Jul 2008 21:11:03 +0000 http://doublebuffered.wordpress.com/?p=39#comment-213 Gut reaction is generally a pretty good estimate of overall enjoyment and quality, and better than more reasoned, thought out measurements. I’ll pull up some cites from Blink if you care (or you can borrow my copy, it’s a good book on gut reactions)

]]> http://doublebuffered.com/2008/07/06/is-metacritic-scientism/#comment-212 Sun, 06 Jul 2008 15:27:31 +0000 http://doublebuffered.wordpress.com/?p=39#comment-212 While I have no problem with Metacritic directly, the whole idea of expressing the quality of a game (or anything else) as a fraction seems off to me. Averaging many of these scores together does help, but that doesn’t change the fact that the base metrics are entirely arbitrary and often scores are more a quantification of gut reaction than actual ejoyment or quality.

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