Wait.
Did i fall into bizarro world?

Metacritic .. means a damn to anyone?

Metacritic, and sites like it, are the reason we've been really bland boring pointless, supposedly AAA titles.
Surely you've heard that Resident Evil 6 and Tomb Raider "Failures" in the eyes of its publishers despite selling six *million* copies?
We're in an age where 'online scores' and focus groups who have never played a good game in their lives are being used to dictate how games are developed.