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Did You Know Gaming Disputes Metacritic’s
Kotaku • • technology
Key Points:
- Metacritic's near-perfect score of 99 for The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is being challenged by Did You Know Gaming (DYKG), which argues the calculation is flawed due to inconsistencies in included reviews.
- DYKG found that Metacritic omitted scores from some approved publications like Game Informer and Nintendo Power, while including non-numerical and retrospective reviews, potentially skewing the average.
- By recalculating based on Metacritic's own standards, DYKG suggests Ocarina's score should be lowered to 98, tying it with other top games like Grand Theft Auto IV and Super Mario Galaxy 2, thus questioning its top spot.
- Despite similar scrutiny applied to Soulcalibur, another pre-Metacritic release, its score remained unchanged, indicating some discrepancies may be unique to Ocarina's aggregation process.
- This critique highlights ongoing challenges in accurately aggregating historical game reviews and the impact such scores have on a game's legacy and records.
