Here Are The Top 10 Xbox Games Of 2022 According To Metacritic

For a console with no games, my backlog is a monster lol

@Microbius Agreed. I loved Elden Ring, but the rest of this list is trash.

I have come to realise alot of critic reviews dont share my taste and opinion on games

@Microbius
You should play Persona 5 it is miles better than Elden Ring.

@Romans12
Try Persona 5, it is better than Elden Ring.

@Microbius Metacritic has always been a problem that never should have existed. The idea of taking an aggregate of reviews, specifically only from publications that meet high circulation thresholds, that all have totally different scoring systems with different bases for scores, and turn them into a single round number as a value of the game, simultaneously curates which publications are allowed to actually matter, ignores their individual rating systems, includes any biases, and gives everyone a round, meaningless number to judge a game by. It also helps the industry paint by numbers, so that rather than trying to impress people with new ideas, games are designed around making sure to hit all the checkboxes that generate predictably safe critical scores.

I wanted Metacritic to disappear back in the '00's, and I still do.

The other issue is just the nature of reviews, not just in games, but also music, books, film, are naturally a RELATIVE score to its nature, genre, etc. In film a 9/10 review of a Michael Bay blockbuster will not mean exactly the same thing on an absolute scale as an 8/10 review of a French B&W arthouse film set in WWII. But if you aggregated the scores as Metacritic implies you can, then Transformers 7 is simply a superior film to the arthouse tearjerker of love and war.... You can't do that. The French flick may be an 8/10 as far as arthouse serious type films go, and the Bay film may be almost perfect as far as blockbusters full of explosions, but the two don't compare directly against each other in any way beyond that both are played through a projector toward a screen and were recorded with cameras.

Same with games. Pentiment may be an 86 as an experience, and as a well made chose-your-ending visual novel. TMNT: Shredder may be an 87 aggregate bump arcade brawler. But these are entirely different genres and products that can't in any way compare to each other beyond that they both play on Xbox and are both computer graphics programs... But metacritic wants to apply they're both relatable and TMNT is better than Pentiment. Although, I suppose Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael, and Michelangelo do slot nicely into Pentament's world and themes.....perhaps I should rethink this....Heroic individuals clad in but half a shell, mayhap?

@somnambulance
Well Elden Ring is a 7-8 at best and Persona 5 is a 9.
Elden Ring is not that great since they fail in every aspect, it is a good game and dont think it is top 5 of FromSoftware games.

@somnambulance
Bosses was not good, bosses from their earlier games is better. Also exept bigger bosses it was much copy paste.
Open world was not good, they are better on more linear. If next is open world they might have it better by then but no excuse for Elden Ring on that part.

So in all a good game but not great.

This Top 10 surprises me and think some of the scores are too high also. I remember when any game that was able to get near or over 90 score was pretty much Legend status. Doesn’t seem to be the case these days.

where is high on life?

People calling Vampire Survivors and Rogue Legacy 2 (though I haven’t played the second, if it’s half as good as the first then it’s amazing) trash? Oh dear. I kinda suck at Cuphead but otherwise would get on The Delicious Last Course.

@NEStalgia underrated comment (as usual really).

People have different tastes and that's fine and dandy, but I'll NEVER understand the circle jerk surrounding Elden Ring. I nearly fell off my chair laughing when I saw people saying that GoW was a "glorified DLC" and calling ER "revolutionary" and fresh. It's an open-world Dark Souls game with the same janky mechanics that FromSoft is known for. It's a fine game, but please stop calling it a "masterpiece".

Elden Ring is most certainly a masterpiece of a game. Just incredible and getting the itch to play through it again.

Persona 5 was one of my favourite games of last year as played it on the PS5. I'd say both are easily in my top 10 games of all time.

This article has reminded me I need to get back to RL2. Loved the first one and the sequel improves it in nearly everyday. Killer soundtrack too.

@dimi LOL