{"id":39836,"date":"2024-11-14T12:00:21","date_gmt":"2024-11-14T03:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=39836"},"modified":"2024-11-14T12:12:19","modified_gmt":"2024-11-14T03:12:19","slug":"suda51s-statement-about-metacritic-scores-blew-up-more-than-expected-but-he-doesnt-really-care-about-that-either","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/suda51s-statement-about-metacritic-scores-blew-up-more-than-expected-but-he-doesnt-really-care-about-that-either\/","title":{"rendered":"Suda51\u2019s statement about Metacritic scores blew up more than expected, but he doesn\u2019t really care about that either\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In a recent interview with AUTOMATON<\/a>, Shadows of the Damned and No More Heroes creator Goichi Suda (Suda51) addressed the huge social media response to his previous comments about Metacritic scores and clarified what he meant. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you missed what happened, here\u2019s a recap. In a September interview with Suda51 and Shinji Mikami in GamesIndustry.biz, the topic of why unusual games rarely get made by larger game companies nowadays came up. Suda posited that it\u2019s because \u201cEveryone cares too much about Metacritic Scores,\u201d especially game publishers. \u201cIf you’ve got a game that doesn’t fit into that formula, that marketability scope, it loses points on Metacritic. The bigger companies might not want to deal with that kind of thing.\u201d Suda told GamesIndustry.biz<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When we asked him about it in our interview, Suda revealed that he was unaware that the comments had gone viral and been picked up by loads of media outlets until it was brought up in his weekly meeting with NetEase Games. However, he seemed unfazed by the attention, adding that \u201cit wasn\u2019t a big deal, I\u2019m not concerned and no one’s getting mad at me.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Suda51 Metacritic Scores comment<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Despite this, Suda51 hopes that readers understood the point he was making. Further clarifying what he meant, Suda51 explained to us that game journalists (likely using a standard scoring criteria for what makes a \u201ctypical\u201d good game) sometimes give unconventional games really low review scores, even in the 0 to 20 region. \u201cI think 0 can\u2019t possibly be a fair score, but studios like ours, who make games that disregard standard forms of expression and standard mechanics, often fall through the cracks when it comes to reviews.\u201c Suda commented, before concluding that for a studio like Grasshopper Manufacture,\u201cThere\u2019s really no point being concerned about scores given by the media. Instead, it\u2019s the user reviews that are important. I want to know if the gamers who went out of their way to buy our new game had fun playing it.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite his dismissal of game reviews by media outlets, Suda admits that he is sometimes conscious of the need to avoid mechanics that will clearly get downvoted by critics and players alike. Suda mentions wanting to put \u201cdirtier mechanics\u201d into his games, giving the example of a tough, old-school style save system (where you have to go all<\/em> the way back to your last savepoint if you die), but being told by staff that he needed to be more generous these days, where auto-save is taken for granted. Suda51 says that he compromises in such situations: \u201cI think that things like this from back in the day don\u2019t get accepted so easily anymore.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more insights from Suda51, including his love for Zelda and how Shinji Mikami became a \u201csuper executive cheerleader,\u201d check out our full interview<\/a>.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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