Shadows Of The Damned creator Goichi Suda (aka Suda51) has revealed during an interview with GamesIndustry.biz that he feels people are too hung up on Metacritic scores as of late, suggesting it negatively impacts originality.
Everybody pays too much attention to and cares too much about Metacritic scores. It’s gotten to the point where there’s almost a set formula – if you want to get a high Metacritic score, this is how you make the game.
If 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. That might not be the main reason, but that’s certainly one reason why. Everyone cares too much about the numbers.
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Personally, I don’t care too much about the Metacritic numbers. I’m not really conscious of them. What’s important to us is putting the games out that we want to put out and having people playing the games we want them to be able to play.
Shinji Miami was also joined by Soda-san during the interview, and noted that unique games lack the same marketability as those that need to appeal to a broader audience.
Soda and Mikami both worked together on Shadows Of The Damned back in 2011, with the game set to receive a remaster this October in the form of Shadows Of The Damned: Hella Remastered.
[Source – GamesIndustry.biz]