jay pettitt on 4/2/2014 at 22:39
Go on then, put your on line reputations for ever err, on the line, - what is Thief gonna metascrore?
Me, I'm guessing maybe 65-70
Renzatic on 4/2/2014 at 22:42
If it's merely mediocre, then 75-85. Thief's coming from a big studio, and most of the standard review sites won't go lower than 75 because of that. Not unless it's really truly irredeemably horrible, and then it'll only be around 70.
jay pettitt on 4/2/2014 at 22:47
I think you're right, metascores are creeping towards generous over time. I think Theif 3, for example metascored a good bit higher than the first two games - despite it being a fairly commonly held view (apologies to the 2 of you who disagree) that it wasn't exactly the best in the series.
Nuth on 4/2/2014 at 22:54
Quote Posted by jay pettitt
I think you're right, metascores are creeping towards generous over time. I think Theif 3, for example metascored a good bit higher than the first two games - despite it being a fairly commonly held view (apologies to the 2 of you who disagree) that it wasn't exactly the best in the series.
I think TDS scored a bit lower, but I could be wrong about that. I actually think the new game will score pretty well eventhough it's not something I want to play.
My vote goes to 80-90.
jay pettitt on 4/2/2014 at 22:59
oh, metacritic says you're right. I swear one of the recent online previews showed metascores for the previous Thief games with T1 & T2 scoring low 80s and T3 high 80s.
Brother Inquisitor on 4/2/2014 at 23:00
Brother Criswell predicts...
Metascore: 88
User score: 4.5
edit: Okay, having seen that "Aliens: Colonial Marines" has a Metascore of 45 and considering the heavy flak this game (Thiaf, that is) got in most previews, I now think it quite possible that Thiaf might also score somewhere in the 60ish region.
Nuth on 4/2/2014 at 23:02
Quote Posted by jay pettitt
oh, metacritic says you're right. I swear one of the recent online previews showed metascores for the previous Thief games with T1 & T2 scoring low 80s and T3 high 80s.
I saw that too, but someone had commented about it being wrong.
skacky on 4/2/2014 at 23:07
Quote Posted by Nuth
I saw that too, but someone had commented about it being wrong.
Yes, they swapped TDP with TDS.
I think Thi4f will score between 70 and 80. I would be surprised if it got something lower than 70.
GodzillaX8 on 4/2/2014 at 23:52
Quote Posted by Brother Inquisitor
Brother Criswell predicts...
Metascore: 88
User score: 4.5
edit: Okay, having seen that "Aliens: Colonial Marines" has a Metascore of 45 and considering the heavy flak this game (Thiaf, that is) got in most previews, I now think it quite possible that Thiaf might also score somewhere in the 60ish region.
I've seen literally nothing but positive previews coming out for the last month.
SubJeff on 4/2/2014 at 23:59
Nonsense. The previews linked to in this forum, in a thread you've contributed to, have loads of bad things to say about it. Loads.