OOTP 18 mentioned on Two Year End Lists

PSUColonel · 12-29-2017, 03:45 PM

OOTP 18 is listed by both Red Bull, PC Gamer.

https://www.redbull.com/gb-en/best-s...-the-year-2017

http://www.pcgamer.com/the-best-sports-games-on-pc/

Gamespot however didn’t even make mention:

https://www.gamespot.com/genre/sports/pc/

PSUColonel · 12-30-2017, 10:15 PM

Seems like Metacritic may have revamped their best of year criteria this year. Lossy year OPTP won with only seven critic reviews. This year, there are only five reviews, but the scores still garner a very respectable avg of 87/100. With a score like this, OOTP should still be receiving mention as one of the top games of the year. It seems metacritic is demanding more reviews now before allowing this. I can’t help but think this is likely due to OOTP 17 last year.

bwburke94 · 01-01-2018, 01:49 AM

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Originally Posted by PSUColonel

Seems like Metacritic may have revamped their best of year criteria this year. Lossy year OPTP won with only seven critic reviews. This year, there are only five reviews, but the scores still garner a very respectable avg of 87/100. With a score like this, OOTP should still be receiving mention as one of the top games of the year. It seems metacritic is demanding more reviews now before allowing this. I can’t help but think this is likely due to OOTP 17 last year.

I've said before that OOTP and Metacritic don't mix. Seems that they keep moving the goalposts on this.

Cryomaniac · 01-01-2018, 09:48 AM

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Originally Posted by bwburke94

I've said before that OOTP and Metacritic don't mix. Seems that they keep moving the goalposts on this.

I doubt it's solely due to OOTP.

My guess is that they don't want things winning with a small number of reviews because it makes it easier for creators to "fake" reviews from their loyal subjects... er I mean forum members

PSUColonel · 01-01-2018, 06:14 PM

So how do we get more established “professional” reviewers to rate OOTP?

12-29-2017, 03:45 PM	#1
PSUColonel Hall Of Famer Join Date: Feb 2002 Posts: 13,094	OOTP 18 mentioned on Two Year End Lists OOTP 18 is listed by both Red Bull, PC Gamer. https://www.redbull.com/gb-en/best-s...-the-year-2017 http://www.pcgamer.com/the-best-sports-games-on-pc/ Gamespot however didn’t even make mention: https://www.gamespot.com/genre/sports/pc/

12-30-2017, 10:15 PM	#2
PSUColonel Hall Of Famer Join Date: Feb 2002 Posts: 13,094	Seems like Metacritic may have revamped their best of year criteria this year. Lossy year OPTP won with only seven critic reviews. This year, there are only five reviews, but the scores still garner a very respectable avg of 87/100. With a score like this, OOTP should still be receiving mention as one of the top games of the year. It seems metacritic is demanding more reviews now before allowing this. I can’t help but think this is likely due to OOTP 17 last year.

01-01-2018, 06:14 PM	#5
PSUColonel Hall Of Famer Join Date: Feb 2002 Posts: 13,094	So how do we get more established “professional” reviewers to rate OOTP?