Assassinated

10 of 12, a few stupid mistakes.

I put down Pikmin 1 early on because I felt I wasn't making enough progress to collect everything I needed in the 30 in game days, and I feared what failure would mean. This sounds like it would inflame those same anxieties, just cranked up to eleven!

The poll responses are surprisingly well balanced!

9/12 I'm happy with that.

Never thought I'd see Samus just running away from Ridley like that, to the point of fleeing the planet. Usually when they fight it's Ridley who makes an escape after taking a significant amount of damage. Never pegged her for a coward.

Is it 650 times bigger or 650% bigger? 650% is only 6 1/2 times bigger, whereas 650 times bigger would be 65,000% larger.

I must say, this review didn't read like a 10/10. Based on the issues described, I was expecting the score to show 8 or 9 tops.

If this wasn't a good game, how much do you want to bet the subhead would have been a pun on Tadpole Terrible Encore?

I got 8. Just terrible!

The article misses something. It can't simply be about losing out on the profits you would have gotten if the price goes up. That wouldn't cause hedge funds to lose any money. The thing about short selling is that you can actually sell more stock than you currently own. If you start the day by selling a million shares of a stock that you don't have, by the end of the day you have to purchase those million shares back at whatever price they are currently being sold for. So, if I sell 1 million shares at $100 per share, I'll have $100 million. If, by closing bell, the stock drops to $50 per share, I buy 1 million shares back at $50 million and pocket the other $50 million as profit. What happened here was like, I sell 1 million shares at $100 per share. Instead of dropping, the stock price shoots up to $300 per share. I now have to buy 1 million shares at $300 per share, and lose $200 million on the deal.

Ouch, I only got 5! Granted, I never played any of the games, but still!

7 Missed most in the beginning, got most toward the end.

So Going Mad=Breaking Bad then?
But what does that have to do with time manipulation?

Peculiar Stuff=Stranger Things
Elder Thrones=Game of Thrones
Blindevil=Daredevil
The Standing Zombie=The Walking Dead
I just can't quite figure out what Going Mad parodies.

I have literally never heard of over 95% of these games. I have played only a tiny fraction of 1% of these games! 37 freaking pages of games NintendoLife? Really? This is the worst game ranking format I've ever seen on any website!I was scrollin through for like half an hour, and every couple of minutes I'd be like "oh, I heard of that one", and then go back to scrolling though pages upon pages of garbage! Never do this again! If even 10% of the games on this list even receive a single ranking from someone, I will be shocked.
Ori and the Will of the Wisps is my Switch GOTY btw.

Wow, that poll has one of the most evenly split responses I've ever seen for this site!

I got 11/16 right. Some of these were tough.

You don't want to sell me deathsticks.
You want to go home and rethink your life.

I'm curious, what happens if a kart leaves the path? Could one potentially cheat on a complex course by driving straight for the gates regardless of how the track twists and turns?

What's the one thing I asked you not to do tonight?
Ray's the Dead.
And what did you do?
Ray's the Dead.

Haven't played a lot of horror games, but Amnesia : The Dark Descent easily takes the top spot for me.

6 Most of them were guesses.

I got six out of ten.

10/12 Could've sworn Spelunky was on Switch

12/18 Didn't play a lot of the original 2D Mario games, so not bad considering.

Does a game have to murder your family to get a 1? How much worse can it get?

8/15 for me this time

7/12 alright I guess.

9/15 Missed several near the beginning, but got better towards the end.

9/15 is a heck of a lot better than I expected to do on this.

People should keep in mind Metacritic is not a Video Game review site. It is a movie, video game, TV show, and music review site. They are not simply going to add 20 layers of verification to the video game section. It doesn't even make sense to. Not everyone who plays a game has proof of purchase. Maybe it's a rental, or borrowed from a friend, or given as a gift, or any number of things. Studies have found that a majority of gamers for a majority of games never finish a game to completion. That doesn't necessarily mean that they don't have a valid opinion on the game they played.

For those suspicious of the timing, of course it's not a coincidence that this change happened after LoU2 was review bombed. It has nothing to do with money changing hands though. Think of it as the straw that broke the camel's back. Review bombing has been a problem for a while, but it took to this point to get Metacritic try to do something to mitigate the problem. Will it work? We'll see. The next time a highly controversial game releases, the new policy will be tested, and we'll see if there is any effect. I'm cautiously optimistic though myself.

So for huge 20 hr plus games the 3 day waiting period is great and makes total sense. But what about games that last 2-6 hours that can be completed in an afternoon? a 3 day wait seems a bit excessive there. Does Metacritic take avg completion time into account?

6/8 confused Larry and Iggy and didn't know who's youngest.

Disappointed in myself. Only got 18/21. Thought LoZ was Z2, Ages was Seasons, and somehow missed WW.

13/21 I started super strong, then I fell off towards the end.

I don't care for Fire Emblem, but got the other two.

15/15 Perfect score!

8/15 I knew some were tricks but fell for them anyway.

10/25 is better than I expected. Never once touched the games.

7/15 Better than I've done on most of these.

Oof 4/10. I thought I knew Nintendo better than that!

9/10. Totally miscounted the years.

I don't play AC but still got 4/7 right.

Guy must be a masochist!

@Joker13z You do realize, if PECHC were a thing, PETA wouldn't even crack the top 50 right?

Game informer also gave it 9/10

Is it me, or is whoever was playing in the screenshots really terrible at the game?

As an American, I have to ask, what the hell is "naught point three one hundredweight? We use pounds and ounces not whatever that is.

Damn, I didn't realize this was going on, I missed the whole thing!

How is "Kaizo Link Mastery" in any way considered a kaizo level? It seemed incredibly forgiving, had an easy going pace, and even telegraphed virtually all the moves necessary so that even a novice could figure out what to do! Don't get me wrong, it looked like a well made and fun level, but Kaizo? I don't think so.