ONM writes: When we post a review and give it a 70-79% review score, we often see comments from readers who think that it's a bad score. Take our LEGO Batman 2 review for earlier this year, for example. We gave it 78%, saying that fans will have a blast. Yet in the comments, we were accused of being hard on the LEGO games. That can't be right.
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70% is a good score.
I don't know where the scoring system turned to:
100% = Must Buy
90% = Got to try
80% = It's ok
79% or below = FAILURE!!!
I personally think the numbers game needs to die alongside it the metacritic and unethical journalists.
"Why 70% is a good review score"
Common sense. Anyone who has a basic understanding of the number system and ratios understands this.
It seems like any game falling under the dreaded 75% (where the color code changes from green to yellow) on metacritic means practically everyone is going to outright ignore it.
I think it depends upon the game itself. For an established AAA franchise like Uncharted or Metal Gear Solid for example, an overwhelmingly majority reviews of 70 something isn't good at all. If it's just a few scores of 70 something amongst a sea of 8's and/or 9's, it's not a big deal IMO because there's always a couple of sites out there that score a game a little lower than most everyone else.
However, for a game or franchise that's not considered to be AAA like the Lego games, that aren't expected to have the same high production values, I agree that a 70-79 is a pretty good score.
But it's not a good score. By any metric. 70% is a C-. Slightly below average.