Uhh. OK. So apparently from 2011, Microsoft Studios put out the highest ratio of games:positive ratings. I didn't look at the full list of games because I can't really see a way to do it, but head over here to look at the chart.

I am really interested in looking up what games these actually were because to be honest I can only think of the ones that are on the front page of the list. This is such a huge contrast to the beginning of the year when everyone was saying that this will be Microsoft's worst year for actual titles...

But still, I am extremely surprised. Anyone find a way to look up what these games actually are, on the Metacritic site? I didn't think MS Studios even put out 25 games this year.

I thought Microsoft had a very disappointing 2011 in terms of the amount of quality first party titles released. I'm trying to look up some of the games as well, never really go on Metacritic.

Microsoft dominated the downloadable market as far as I can tell. Tons of quality titles coming out of XBLA.

XBLA, man. XBLA.

Wikipedia has a good list of them. Not sure if they are all on there or not, though.

It's based on Metacritic scores, so I care less than I do about AOL polls.

Edit: Wait. Looking at their "Best Games of the Year", the top two have the same 'Metascore', and SECOND PLACE has a better user score. Second place was also rated by 'Positive' by critics twice as many times... so why isn't it first? What the hell kind of math are they using? It isn't updated past the time they did the awarding, because the user score of Skyrim has gone down .1 compared to the one shown on the chart.

@Lagaroth said:

It's based on Metacritic scores, so I care less than I do about AOL polls.

Edit: Wait. Looking at their "Best Games of the Year", the top two have the same 'Metascore', and SECOND PLACE has a better user score. Second place was also rated by 'Positive' by critics twice as many times... so why isn't it first? What the hell kind of math are they using? It isn't updated past the time they did the awarding, because the user score of Skyrim has gone down .1 compared to the one shown on the chart.

I don't think they are taking the user scores into account at all for that. As far as how they decided which order to put the top two in since they have the same score....I have no idea. The only guess I can make is they use the lowest score a game received from a critic in case of a tie breaker. Lowest critic score they have for Batman is 80 and Skyrim has a 75. I don't really think that makes sense and it is probably completely wrong, but that's the only thing I can see that would put Batman over Skyrim.

Or maybe they aren't really listing them in a specific order when there is a tie. They just list them and assume people will notice that they have the same score.

Edit: Bah....I should've read the whole thing on the metacritic page instead of just looking at the list. They say Batman beat Skyrim by a few decimal points, so they aren't really tied.

Hooray for something resembling objectivity!

So three good games and one is a remake....

@big_jon said:

So three good games and one is a remake....

The rest must be XBLA games. Because I can honestly only think of 3 or so.