Starfield's Metacritic score is already causing arguments before the game has even released, in a move that most of us could probably have seen coming from deep space.
The level of discourse around Starfield is already unbearable. In the middle you have the majority of gamers: people I assume like you, who are excited to see a big single-player RPG coming to Xbox. Then you have the two warring sides, consisting of PlayStation fanboys who are campaigning against the game at every turn, and smug Xbox elitists who are handling the situation with all the grace of a hurried crap in a service station toilet.
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With mere days to go until Starfield finally launches, conversation has turned to the game's Metacritic score with nausea-inducing inevitability.
For those who might not be aware, Metacritic is a reviews aggregation website that takes the various review scores from a game and awards an average overall score. Gamers get infuriatingly obsessed with this score, and oftentimes reviewers who give a game a lower than average score are called out for dragging down a game's overall Metacritic score as if A: a range of different opinions is a bad thing and B: reviewers are somehow obligated to make sure a game gets a good score.
Anyway, over on Reddit fans are already divided on what Starfield's score will be. Some believe, based on early positive reviews, that we could see Baldur's Gate 3 and The Legend Of Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom overtaken. Others argue that it's unlikely a Bethesda game will be without differing opinions, citing Skyrim (94) and Fallout 4 (84) as examples. Most, however, seem to agree that Starfield stands a good chance of being over 90. It's worth noting that the highest rated Metacritic game of all time is The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time with a whopping 99, though it's unlikely anything will ever rank that highly again.
Starfield reviews drop tomorrow, so we just have to hunker down and brace for chaos. I'll see you in the trenches.