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Level Up's Top Four Gaming Tidbits for May 13th, 2008

N'Gai Croal

GTA...IV's Metacritic takes a hit; said hit is defended
HMM...Building a more civil gamer for more civil discourse
POP...Cap goes all Dr. Evil with the budget for its next casual game
RND...What would Charlie Rose say about this Fortune story?

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Posted By: SpaceShot (May 14, 2008 at 10:58 )

I love MetaCritic. It is a nothing site that averages scores that are on different scales with different biases to produce a score that is utterly worthless.

The only reason anyone pays attention to metacritic is because other people pay attention to it. It is the ultimate example of gamers paying attention to something because they think other gamers pay attention to it.

GTA IV is a fun game and I am really enjoying it. It is not without its problems and is by no means perfect. Our frustrations with multiplayer alone prove that point. Still, the establishment of Metacritic pressures everyone to outscore everyone else on it or risk being branded as wrong. That is silly. I imagine the lower reviews will be more informative than the higher ones. There are plenty f games rated 6.5 out there that I really enjoyed and by reading the review was able to understand the different taste in games the reviewer had than I did.

Let's just hope reviewers continue to write words and I'll continue to ignore scores.

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Posted By: Etchasketchist (May 13, 2008 at 7:56 PM)

GTA IV has Bad Brains and Fela Kuti.

Why can't Rock Band?

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Posted By: SuperEffective (May 13, 2008 at 3:06 PM)

Village Voice = The suck. GTA is the emperor without clothes and poor Village Voice is the lone voice in the wilderness that tells it Like It Is?

Puh-leeze.

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