I’m not a huge follower of Metacritic scores but now that they’ve settled down I thought I’d post this. Halo 5 is one of the highest scoring first person shooters this year (a tie with a few others) and one of the highest scoring first person shooters this generation (only being bested by Titanfall…so far). It’s faced some stiff competition and I think it’s quite an accomplishment. Congratulations 343!
Where it currently stands in the rankings:
Titanfall: 86
Halo 5: 85
Halo the Master Chief Collection: 85
Destiny the Taken King: 85
Far Cry 4: 85
Battlefield 4: 85
Metro Redux: 83
Call of Duty Black Ops III: 83
Call of Duty Advanced Warfare: 83
Borderlands the Handsome Collection: 82
Wolfenstein the New Order: 79
Call of Duty Ghosts: 78
PlanetSide 2: 78
Wolfenstein the Old Blood: 76
Destiny: 76
Evolve: 76
Battlefield Hardline: 73
Killzone Shadow Fall: 73
Shadow Warrior: 70
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> If it was up to the people in these forums that overreact to it not being #1, it would have a -117 out of 10.
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> Glad to hear it is the third one in ranking!
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> But I ain’t buying for a second that somehow Titanfall is better…
It’s was the 1st “Revolutionary” shooter that came out for the next gen. So it got a few extra points for that.
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> > 2533274812698627;2:
> > If it was up to the people in these forums that overreact to it not being #1, it would have a -117 out of 10.
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> > Glad to hear it is the third one in ranking!
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> > But I ain’t buying for a second that somehow Titanfall is better…
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> It’s was the 1st “Revolutionary” shooter that came out for the next gen. So it got a few extra points for that.
Yeah, I get that. Still, Titanfall has such a low amount of content…
Metacritic’s finicky. Definitely not a good measurement to how great a game is, but just an average measurement to what the big-name reviewers scored the game.
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> If it was up to the people in these forums that overreact to it not being #1, it would have a -117 out of 10.
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> Glad to hear it is the third one in ranking!
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> But I ain’t buying for a second that somehow Titanfall is better…
I agree. What’s there is golden though and I would personally give it a 85 and Halo 5 90; both scores adversely affected by the amount of content at launch. A big thing that Titanfall brought to the table was a whole new way of movement. The big shooters at that time (Call of Duty, Battlefield, Halo, and to a lesser extent Killzone) all controlled fairly similarly. The FPS genre was starting to feel a little stale in that department. After Titanfall came out you can’t deny the effect it has had in the industry with seemingly every shooter now implementing some type of freeform movement. Even Halo 5’s REQ system seems to be taking notes from Titanfall’s Burn Cards. I had an amazing time with the game with its biggest downfall being the amount of content. With all that being said though I would still give Halo 5 a higher rating than Titanfall. Can’t wait to see what they do with Titanfall 2 though!
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> Metacritic’s finicky. Definitely not a good measurement to how great a game is, but just an average measurement to what the big-name reviewers scored the game.
I seem to mostly agree with the average ratings shown on Metacritic (with some swing in either direction sometimes). It’s definitely not the end-all-be-all but I find it a good metric to see if a game is at least good or not. Those user ratings though…
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> theres still another month left for fpss
> i think we are just getting started
Very true! The year is not over yet and there’s still a few releases left. Star Wars Battlefront and Rainbow Six Siege I think are the biggest ones left.