Originally Posted by Blackheifer
Originally Posted by dwig
In a BG3 forum people seem to prefer BG3 to Starfield. Who could have possibly predicted that?

Outside as well.

Lets see.

Starfield:
Metacritic Score 83

User score 6.6

Steam Score - Mostly Positive (76% Positive)

Baldur's Gate 3:

Metacritic Score 96

User Score 8.9

Steam Score - Overwhelmingly Positive (96% positive)

So, that's objective reality for you. I fully expect you to either 1) peace out or 2) move the goalposts.

I mean, we know that user ratings aren't really "objective reality" in the sense that they're an objective rating of a game's quality. They're not even an objective measurement of how people like the game, they're a noisy signal at best. If we're arguing that they should be used as a measure of how many people prefer one game over the other, we wouldn't even want to look at overall reviews, we'd want to look at that subset of reviews from people who have played both games and reviewed both. I'm willing to bet there's at least a few dozen thousand of those.

(It is hard to argue that review score is a matter of user preference: In the extreme, you can imagine one game that has an average 5/5 score but only 3 players, compared to a game that has a 3/5 score but 10 million players. Which one would you say people *really* prefer to play)