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[cormack12]

Best Games This Year - Metacritic

Metacritic aggregates music, game, tv, and movie reviews from the leading critics. Only Metacritic.com uses METASCORES, which let you know at a glance how each item was reviewed.

www.metacritic.com

 

[XXL]

 

[Hawk The Slayer]

I don't trust Metacritic scores so since it's not on Steam then PSN would be the next score I'll trust which also has Astro Bot as the highest this year among the PS5 exclusives

Astro Bot - 4.89/5 from 32.3k customer reviews
Stellar Blade - 4.83/5 from 63.0k customer reviews
Rebirth - 4.71/5 from 43.5k customer reviews
Rise of the Ronin - 4.20/5 from 18.0k reviews

Astro Bot is the highest rated and also seem to have good leg as it already has 32.3k reviews in it's short time. Stellar Blade also seem to have both a very high score and good leg with how many reviews it keeps getting. Rise of the Ronin would be the worse exclusive with the lowest rating as well as bad leg it seems as it's still have lower than 20k reviews.

 

[nowhat]

I don't trust Metacritic scores so since it's not on Steam then PSN would be the next score I'll trust which also has Astro Bot as the highest this year among the PS5 exclusives

I'm not sure I'd trust PSN either. I don't think I've ever seen less than three and a half stars (and less than four is extremely rare) for any game.

 

[Neofire]

Best Games This Year - Metacritic

Metacritic aggregates music, game, tv, and movie reviews from the leading critics. Only Metacritic.com uses METASCORES, which let you know at a glance how each item was reviewed.

www.metacritic.com

Well damn deserved

 

[amigastar]

This looks so freaking satisfying, lol.

 

[Esppiral]

Very well deserved

 

[Jinxed]

What a wonderful game, I had so much fun with it. Definitely my GOTY

 

[Fake]

No complains from me. Its a great game and Sony needs more japanese games more than ever.

And thats why Its my GOTY 2024.

 

[bender]

It wouldn't be my game of the year but it wouldn't bother me if it earned the award. It's a joyous experience.

 

[XXL]

This looks so freaking satisfying, lol.

 

[NeverYouMind]

Highest rated or most overrated exclusive?

 

[sncvsrtoip]

I'm not sure I'd trust PSN either. I don't think I've ever seen less than three and a half stars (and less than four is extremely rare) for any game.

1-5 system is rather bad especialy when there is no half points

 

[Men_in_Boxes]

“1.5 million”
“Model for the industry”

Happy Thanksgiving!

 

[xenosys]

I don't trust Metacritic scores so since it's not on Steam then PSN would be the next score I'll trust which also has Astro Bot as the highest this year among the PS5 exclusives

Astro Bot - 4.89/5 from 32.3k customer reviews
Stellar Blade - 4.83/5 from 63.0k customer reviews
Rebirth - 4.71/5 from 43.5k customer reviews
Rise of the Ronin - 4.20/5 from 18.0k reviews

Astro Bot is the highest rated and also seem to have good leg as it already has 32.3k reviews in it's short time. Stellar Blade also seem to have both a very high score and good leg with how many reviews it keeps getting. Rise of the Ronin would be the worse exclusive with the lowest rating as well as bad leg it seems as it's still have lower than 20k reviews.

Review totals aren't indicative of much. Stellar Blade has over 60k reviews and it's sold nowhere near what Rebirth has this year.

 

[Hawk The Slayer]

Review totals aren't indicative of much. Stellar Blade has over 60k reviews and it's sold nowhere near what Rebirth has this year.

Never said anything about Stellar Blade selling more than Rebirth. Just that it had good leg as ever since their first over 1 million news, the review count keeps raking up at a very fast rate. And for Stellar Blade's budget to sells ratio, it's already better than Rebirth's sales from their budget to sales ratio. Both of these are among my favorite so don't really care which is better at the end anyway.

 

[jm89]

Didn't need metacritic to tell me that, but good to have it on record.

 

[Complistic]

It is game of the year so yup

 

[NeverYouMind]

It is game of the year so yup

 

[Kokoloko85]

I hope you dont mind, these are gonna be used lol

 

[Robb]

Best Games This Year - Metacritic

Metacritic aggregates music, game, tv, and movie reviews from the leading critics. Only Metacritic.com uses METASCORES, which let you know at a glance how each item was reviewed.

www.metacritic.com

 

[Aces High]

It's a good game.

I enjoyed the hard face button levels the most.

Music was 10/10.

The God of War level was more fun than the actual God of War game.

Pacing was a problem in the second half and I think the game would have been better if it was shorter.

 

[XXL]

It's a good game.

I enjoyed the hard face button levels the most.

Music was 10/10.

The God of War level was more fun than the actual God of War game.

Pacing was a problem in the second half and I think the game would have been better if it was shorter.

The only thing that would have made it better is VR support.

If you know, you know.

 

[RoboFu]

Well that's good to see.

 

[Sooner]

Great game. FFVII Rebirth is still my GOTY, but Astrobot was a great weekend.

 

[W11d]

I'm not sure I'd trust PSN either. I don't think I've ever seen less than three and a half stars (and less than four is extremely rare) for any game.

Concord?

 

[nowhat]

Concord?

No idea, it no longer exists in PSN.

 

[Thief1987]

1-5 system is rather bad especialy when there is no half points

And yet many simping for binary steam "rating" system

 

[Certinty]

Best game of this generation so far in my eyes so well deserved.

 

[kevboard]

well, if this isn't proof that review scores are nonsense then I don't know what is.

 

[Thief1987]

well, if this isn't proof that review scores are nonsense then I don't know what is.

Yeah, that dlc score is absolutely stupid

 

[K' Dash]

what a disgrace of a year lol, consistent with the shitshow this gen has been.

 

[ungalo]

It was enjoyable, finished it in 2 days, not thinking about it since.

I could try the speedrunning but i don't really see the appeal for this game in particular, i would have more pleasure doing it for other kind of plateformers.

It's more of a satisfying experience than an accomplished game to me (like most of Sony's games actually, there's this emphasis on feeling above design).

 

[Cakeboxer]

well, if this isn't proof that review scores are nonsense then I don't know what is.

Metacritic was always dumb and ridiculous for many reasons, but if you don't take the scores too seriously it can be entertaining.

 

[AtomicStarving]

Game is really good. Pure gameplay joy video game.

 

[TheThreadsThatBindUs]

 

[Complistic]

Be honest, have you played it? Also what's your game of the year

 

[digdug2]

It's well-deserved and I hope that it continues to both score and sell well. The game was wonderful overall, though getting some of the speedrun bots and the final master bot were super annoying. Astro Bot is the second game that I have platinumed over the years.

 

[EN250]

Undoubtedly an amazing experience, hope it gets the recognition it deserves awards and sales wise

 

[NeverYouMind]

Be honest, have you played it? Also what's your game of the year

I played the demo at a Best Buy. My game of the year is Tekken 8. It is such a beautiful return to form after the rubbish that was Tekken 7.

 

[Valedix]

Taking my time with it, 2 worlds down with about 6 hrs gameplay. Love the OST.

 

[Horseganador]

It is deservedly the best of the year.

 

[Danjin44]

I enjoyed the game VERY much, super fun game but also not a game I would comeback to, it doesn't really give you any reason to do so.

 

[adamsapple]

Alphabetically, yes.

 

[Dacvak]

Incredibly deserved. Easily the best game of the year.

 

[kruis]

Alphabetically, yes.

It's the clear number one when you take the critic score and the user score into account.

 

[Hohenheim]

I bounced off this game when I had to start searching for those dudes in the levels I had already cleared, in order to progress.
Hate stuff like that.

I'll get my girlfriend to replay all the earlier levels for me so I can finish it at some point. She loves finding every item and secret in games like this.

 

[Topher]

well, if this isn't proof that review scores are nonsense then I don't know what is.

Disagreeing with the results isn't proof of anything except you disagreeing.

 

[reinking]

I played the demo at a Best Buy.

 

[Darkmakaimura]

So it looks like top three are all Japan games. Yes! I love to see it.