PlayStation's Highest Rated Games of 2021 Have Been Revealed on Metacritic

Only Deathloop is too highly placed as far as I'm concerned, especially when Returnal doesn't make the top 10. It seems reviewers forgave the relentlessly stupid AI in Deathloop at launch but viewed the lack of being able to save (now patched) harshly, because the game is phenomenal. The rest, especially the top 2 are well deserved. FF may be DLC but it's the game is fantastic, and that DLC could probably rival full releases for quality and content.
What a nice surprise Synth Riders is to see 😊

I own #9 and 10, so I guess I have the worst of the best?

Metascore means nothing to me!

@hobbes242 you have the best of the rest 😊

@Loftimus oh Vienna!

I have most of those and they’re all fantastic. Endwalker is by all accounts utterly fantastic so it deserves to be there alongside the PS5 ports for sure. MMO expansions have as much content as some full games.

Ghost blows all those other games out of the water.

Does anyone know how they decide positioning on the list when scores are tied? For example the games with 89 and 88 aren't equal 4th and equal 7th respectively but are placed.

Endwalker's spot is so deserved, an immensely satisfying conclusion to an absolute incredible journey.

@Integrity That sounds much better.

@Integrity You'd think the one with more reviews - Deathloop(109 reviews) would be placed ahead of - It takes Two(49 reviews), since if Deathloop had less we'd probably looking at a 92+ score. But I guess MC just felt "oh yeah It Takes Two got GOTY" let's just place it ahead. Matter of fact the different number of review count for different games doesn't make the scores fair tbh.

Push Square game of the year isn’t even on Metacritic list. Metacritic game of you doesn’t make it to Push Square’s list. Neither of your list include my game of the year Ys9. Hopefully none of these games would be in anyone’s top 10 if they released in 2022.

@TheArt it's almost as if Metacritic is about as reliable a guide as an old Dulux Colour Chart.

@Integrity It needs a lot of balancing because the more reviews a game gets, the score keeps dropping most likely. So maybe they should artificially raise the scores of said games to make it fair I dunno...

@TheArt or make those with the same scores equal and place them in order of appearance according to how many reviews they had, most at the top. At least that would give people an indication at a glance.

Final Fantasy games in the 1 and 3 slots is quite phenomenal really.

I know Square Enix has made some missteps of late, but they have made (and still make) some of the best games in the business.

My highest score PS4 games i have.

3. Portal Knights (92/100)

2. The Sims 4 (95/100)

1. Dragon Quest Builders 2 (96/100)

They are my Holy Trinity of home builder games on PS4.

Y'all praising FF shouldn't get ahead of yourselves. It's 93 with 11 reviews, of course it's going to be that high, the ranking is laughable.

How did Ghost only score an 88?

@TheArt Reviewing it is difficult because of how many hours they'd have to spend on it to do it justice. I think its universally acknowledged to be excellent by media outlets. However I do think there should be a minimum threshold of reviews before games are eligible to be listed, though what would be a fair amount?

Also some review sites are 'better' than others. Some of them have fewer readers than Karl Pilkington has hair.

I don't get Disco E. I played for a fair bit, but just got bored. I felt I was playing against the game mechanic too much and not the experiencing the narrative

@Integrity I agree at the minimum threshold of reviews and exactly, some sites are bigger than others. There's a whole lot of things I think Metacritic would have to start taking into account instead of just aggregating scores. And there's the thing about a single site having so much power to drag an entire aggregate down. Example, Uncharted 4 in its early days was at 95 or so only for a single ridiculous Washington Post review to drag it down to 93 because of their 4/10 score. Stuff like that, reviewers with ulterior motives trying to create site traffic by low-scoring popular games should be checked if possible.

@Puketapu Loved DE at first, but once the novelty of the dialogue choices and the talking thoughts wore off I found myself glazing over or skipping more and more of the 'lore' text and simply, like yourself, losing interest.

Got some hours out of it though and had always been curious to play it, so c'est la vie.

@redcorpuscle yeah that was pretty much my experience. A good friend of mine loved it. One day I may go back to it, if I feel like a bit more of a point and click adventure

@TheArt I'd prefer it if websites didn't publish articles referring to Metacritic scores as if they're an indication of anything much beyond an ill prepared, structureless, list of arbitrarily numbered aggregates from sources of varying credibility 😉

@Integrity Hahaa well the fact that it brings scores from various sites together as one big score making it easy to tell if a game is universally acclaimed is what makes MC quite relevant I guess.

@Integrity
I figure in those cases it's based on total votes for the game in general. A thousand scores that average an 89 is not the same level as a total of ten thousand scores that equal an 89 for example.