I just recalled that I heard Cheapy mention metacritic again in this podcast for a review. Why do people rely on such an unreliable site? There is no problem with metacritic; however, the problem is in the data povided to metacrttic. The problem with the data is that there is no universal guide to providing reviews to a game. There seem to be two main options the 5 point scale and the 10 point scale. These two scales contridicte each other. Lets say that on one site using the five point scale that it gets a 3/5 witch sounds good, but if you take that data that comes to a 60% ranking. On another site if it gets an 8/10 that makes the game a 80% ranking and gives the reviewer more leway to review. Some other sites get more in depth such as Game Informer, they have a 10 point scale and go up to a quarter of a point for a review. Some sites will go up to a half like 3 1/2 stars out of 5. Not all sites do that, even CAG only has a Five point system without any leway that means a game can get a ranking of only 20%, 40%, 60%, 80%, or 100% on metacritic. So if there is a good game out there the metacritic score could be brought down by the 5 point ranking system. My friend pointed this out to me and his other complaint is that anyone can post scores to the site it seems like. Just an observation of the site, I used to love going there until my friend pointed it out to me and I can no longer stand to go there. If they had a universal 10 point scale than the site would have more credibility....