LittleBigPlanet gets 6.3/10 on Metacritic, website founder addresses angry mob

LittleBigPlanet got a 6.3 user rating on Metacritic?! This can’t possibly be right, can it? Metacritic’s founder, Marc Doyle, has explained how it is we’re seeing such an implausible score on a game most critics agree is near-perfect.

LittleBigPlanet got a 6.3 user rating on Metacritic. My response to this was a completely reasonable “OMGWTFBBQ.” Tempting as it is to lash out at the game review site’s credibility, we should probably note Metacritic founder Marc Doyle’s post in the user comments:

My advice for our faithful users is to focus your attention on the Metascore for this game and not the thousands of user votes, most of which have been submitted before said users have played the game. This is a gaming community, and if people want to stuff the ballot box, thereÂ’s not much I can do at this point.

The poor scores will stand as per site policy, however, Doyle told Ripten.com that a Metacritic redesign will be coming sometime in the near future. It will include, among other things, beefed up user registration and more involved community functions to make this kind of fanboy/hater nonsense a little harder to pull off.

In fairness, I haven’t played the game yet so there’s no way for me to know that the poor user rating is not actually valid. Still, when the critic’s score is 9.5 versus a measly 6.3 (6.4 as of when this article was finished) one has to assume something other than honest reviewing is at work. Maybe this is backlash from angry gamers when Sony opted to recall LittleBigPlanet until they could fix that Koran thing?

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Via Ripten