Hi Zig Forums, the recent controversy around the metacritic scores of both TLOU2 and Spongebob Rehydrated convinced me to make a video on the subject of reviewer bias. I am not done with it yet but decided to share some of the results of this research I have been conducting on it.
After looking at and comparing the Metacritic and user review scores of nearly 4,000 games I found some interesting trends that I think Zig Forums would find interesting.
First off, the bias reviewers have for and against certain genres.
Keep in mind this is using a review system out of 100. As expected 3D platformers get reviewed lower by critics than fans while both 1st person walking sims and cinematic 3rd person shooters tend to get much higher scores than what videogame fans feel they deserve.
I hope to add more genres to this list over time and make a comprehensiveness list of reviewer bias that could be used to help people get a better idea of a game's true value.
Reviewer Bias Quantified
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Oops, wrong image. Meant to start with this one first.
Too bad Drunkman
Will this let me shit post at a reasonably higher quality?
Yes. You will be able to use objective statistical data to shit on games which will make fanboys seethe even more.
People that give "official" reviews to video-games are failed movie critics and failed journalists.
That's why they give high scores to normie shit, walking simulators, movie "games", etc.
While at the same time shunning actual good games. They aren't gaymers and reviewing is only their job not their hobby
This could be pretty interesting if you go all out with it. I'm actually pretty interested in your results
This one I found the most interested. As time goes on reviewers give out higher and higher review scores compared to user scores. From year 1996 to 2008 users review games more critically than users, 2009 onward it flips to reviewers reviewing games more positively.
Ah so you're research basically says that most journos belongs the same peer group and basically likes same things
Yep that's basically it right?
how'd you get the data from metacritic? Do they have a public api?
Keep going op, this is interesting
uhh like can you not?
Yes actually.
While I don't give a shit about identity politics I also did an analysis of game journo writers. The majority of journos are white men living on the west coast with a greatest concentration in San Fran. We all knew this already but it is important to keep in mind when thinking about what biases they bring into their reviews.
Seconding this. I guess you can webscrape all the data, but I wonder if that's what he did?
That's all I have so far. It takes time to aggregate the genre data (since it is up to my own discretion what defines one genre rather than another). If anyone wants to help out all they have to do is compile a list of metacritic and user scores of games of specific genres like JRPG, Rouglike, ect.
san fran resident here, game journos are the kind of people we bullied in highschool here because they're a bunch of dumb pretentious faggots that think their dislike of physical activity and real life social interaction makes them more intelligent than the rest of us
I did. But somethings I have to do by hand. Assigning genre is the hardest because of this.
Do Nintendo bias next
Back in the day good games were often scored lower or way lower than they deserved and the games in the 80+ range were not that common
Do you plan to post this anywhere? I honestly think you should spread this. If journous want diversity they should practice what they preach.
Reminds me of Pokémon yellow getting a 7/10
I am planning on making a video on it though my channel is small.
After that and over time I want a comprehensive list with genres, publishers, ect so we can really see how invasive the bias is.
wheres the video? data looks good
what happened in 2005?
Cellphones
Keep it up, you're doing gods work. Raise your kids with that mindset
I'm taking these graphs and making my own video, nerd.
You need to properly label your graphs, as the pic in implies the fans, not professional reviewers, and could be seen as a contradiction to what you say in .
>3D platformers get reviewed lower
Unsurprising the most soulful genre gets shit on by NPC's that lack the ability to resonate with a non materialistic quality. Tell me did you weigh any reviewers and see if they were 21 grams lighter than a person their average height?
I hate to say it but reddit and twitter would probably cause your findings to go viral for the whole world to see.
K. Do it, the more people that know the better.
Yeah i'm going to pretty them up. I just made these real quick for this thread. + means reviewers are higher than fans, - means lower avg metacritic than fans.
Just finalized the script so at least another week.
Here is the intro to it though
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I don't really know how to use either. I would not be offended at all if someone wanted to show my findings on those sites and get all the upvote karma or whatever.
this is good shit op
unfortunately their revenge seems to be trying to ruin video games for the rest of us. due to their lack of actual social interaction all they ever played against is bots on easy which is why they continually embarrass themselves whenever they upload gameplay. see the recent spongebob or cuphead videos if you're unaware as to what i'm talking about.