I honestly kind of agree with this. A lot of people see metacritic/opencritic scores and take it at face value. I a lot of people that would just instantly write off a game if it isn’t higher than 80/100.

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I prefer the steam reviews and check that the guy reviewing has enough hours played.

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Gotta be careful with that even, people go out of their way to artificially inflate their play time and use third party programs to unlock achievements.

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