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CMV: Big AAA video games get review scores that are too high, making review scores less useful

**TL;DR**

**AAA Games should be rated more like blockbuster movies where it is far rarer to get an average rating of 8.5/10+.**

On sites like Metacritic it is fairly common to see big movies get review scores below 8/10, often below 7/10.  Sometimes a big movie comes along that gets a very high review score but these are not the norm. By comparison, big AAA video games that are not completely broken almost always get 7+ with many games getting 8.5+. This creates a problem.

If the bar for a mediocre AAA video game is 7/10, then you realistically only have 4 numbers on the scale (7,8,9,10) to discern where most AAA video games land in terms of quality.  This makes the review scale less useful since there are fewer numbers available for most games that people are thinking about buying.

I think games would benefit from a lower average review score since review scores would become more useful.
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Well those ratings take a lot into account. What genre is it? Is the story important to this genre? How are the graphics? Any noticeable bugs/glitches? Is there replay value in this game? How’s the dialogue/voice acting? How are the mechanics?

When you throw as much money as AAA studios do at these games, you’re most likely going to end up on the higher end of most of these categories. Then you have to take into account that they’re rating the game for what it is. Mechanics are far more important than story in the new CoD because that game isn’t about the story. Where as with something like RDR2 or something similar, the story is vastly important. The value placed on each category varies from genre to genre. 

If one of the AAA studios puts out a game that gets a 3/10 there’s going to be a lot of people fired and the people working on that game understand that. On top of that when you invest that much money, high quality is the only thing you’ll accept because it’s the only way you make money at that point.