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[Lunatic_Gamer]

	Games	Points
1	God Of War: Ragnarok PS5: 94 PS4: tbd	2,580​
2	Elden Ring PS5: 96 XBX: 96 PC: 94	1,788​
3	Horizon Forbidden West PS5: 88 PS4:83	588​
4	Stray PS5: 83 PS4: tbd PC:82	329​
5	Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Switch: 89	251​
6	A Plague Tale: Requiem PS5: 82 XBX:85 PC: 82 Switch: 76	247​
7	Kirby And The Forgotten Land Switch: 85	193​
8	Tunic PS5: 86 XBX: 85 PC: 85 Switch: 88	183​
9	Sifu PS5: 81 PC: 79 Switch: 81	174​
10	The Last of Us Part 1 PS5: 88 PC: tbd	158​
11	Vampire Survivors XBX: 95 PC: 87 Mobile: 92	141​
12	Pokemon Legends: Arceus Swtich: 83	141​
13	Sonic Frontiers PS5: 71 XBX: 61 PC: 75 Switch: 69	137​
14	Bayonetta 3 Switch: 86	131​
15	Neon White PS5: tbd PC: 90 Switch: 88	124​

We don't compile critic top 10 lists for games like we do for other categories, but we certainly do compile reviews. And the best-reviewed (aka highest-scoring) game for just about all of 2022 was Elden Ring, a collaboration between Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin and game designer Hidetaka Miyazaki (of the famed Souls series). Our users also loved that game, but only to an extent: it placed second in voting, trailing another high-scoring title, the Sony exclusive God of War: Ragnarok. PlayStation console exclusives actually accounted for three of users' top 5 overall selections. Two Switch exclusives also landed in the top 10, but there is only one Xbox console exclusive on the list below: Vampire Survivors, at #11. In fact, only five our users' 15 favorites are even playable on an Xbox.

Metacritic Users Pick the Best of 2022

Find out which 2022 movies, albums, games, and TV shows were the favorites of Metacritic users in our 13th annual poll.

www.metacritic.com

 

[TintoConCasera]

Guess I should start watching Better Call Sauls asap uh.

 

[GHG]

I know it's coming so in case some of you might be wondering:

https://www.healthline.com/health/why-are-tears-salty

 

[ManaByte]

Metacritic users failed to get gud enough to enjoy Elden Ring.

 

[lh032]

Sony bribe metacritic.
Exclusive GOTY award under the table offer between Jimbo and Metacritic.

 

[.Pennywise]

Ooff, here comes the triggered horde ready to defend the most empty, repetitive and worst user experience open world game of the last times!

 

[Punished Miku]

I just had an AI make box art for God of War Ragnarok.

 

[ToTTenTranz]

	Games	Points
1	God Of War: Ragnarok PS5: 94 PS4: tbd	2,580​
2	Elden Ring PS5: 96 XBX: 96 PC: 94	1,788​
3	Horizon Forbidden West PS5: 88 PS4:83	588​
4	Stray PS5: 83 PS4: tbd PC:82	329​
5	Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Switch: 89	251​
6	A Plague Tale: Requiem PS5: 82 XBX:85 PC: 82 Switch: 76	247​
7	Kirby And The Forgotten Land Switch: 85	193​
8	Tunic PS5: 86 XBX: 85 PC: 85 Switch: 88	183​
9	Sifu PS5: 81 PC: 79 Switch: 81	174​
10	The Last of Us Part 1 PS5: 88 PC: tbd	158​
11	Vampire Survivors XBX: 95 PC: 87 Mobile: 92	141​
12	Pokemon Legends: Arceus Swtich: 83	141​
13	Sonic Frontiers PS5: 71 XBX: 61 PC: 75 Switch: 69	137​
14	Bayonetta 3 Switch: 86	131​
15	Neon White PS5: tbd PC: 90 Switch: 88	124​

We don't compile critic top 10 lists for games like we do for other categories, but we certainly do compile reviews. And the best-reviewed (aka highest-scoring) game for just about all of 2022 was Elden Ring, a collaboration between Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin and game designer Hidetaka Miyazaki (of the famed Souls series). Our users also loved that game, but only to an extent: it placed second in voting, trailing another high-scoring title, the Sony exclusive God of War: Ragnarok. PlayStation console exclusives actually accounted for three of users' top 5 overall selections. Two Switch exclusives also landed in the top 10, but there is only one Xbox console exclusive on the list below: Vampire Survivors, at #11. In fact, only five our users' 15 favorites are even playable on an Xbox.

Metacritic Users Pick the Best of 2022

Find out which 2022 movies, albums, games, and TV shows were the favorites of Metacritic users in our 13th annual poll.

www.metacritic.com

Damn, 2022 was clearly not a good year for Xbox.

Big props to Asobo, though. Not that long ago they were just a secondary studio working on 3rd rate titles, mostly movie tie-ins.

 

[Black_Stride]

I thought we were meant to ignore Metacritic User Scores?

 

[Gudji]

Me:

Me again:

After 5 minutes with the switch:

 

[Jack Videogames]

I'm trying to enjoy Ragnarok but I'm finding it sluggish and sloggish. Maybe it's just me being old.

Agree with most of the rest of the list though

 

[brian0057]

Democracy is a mistake.

 

[Hobbygaming]

The correct choice

 

[Raonak]

Correct choice. The combat in Ragnarok is way more fun than any souls game.

 

[TheRedRiders]

 

[Vroadstar]

 

[Hobbygaming]

 

[Ar¢tos]

Correct choice. The combat in Ragnarok is way more fun than any souls game.

Meh...
Mod Hyperion Grapple to extra stun, equip Hardened War Handles and Hyperion Grapple your way to win!

You only need to really fight bosses, but even for most those you can just repeat another formula over and over, like for bosses that can't be grabbed, just spam Shield bash + instant Flame Whiplash + R2 combo over and over, even better with the Hilt of Hofud and the Emblem of the Nine Realms.

 

[SmokedMeat]

Metacritic users. Big win.

 

[Jennings]

Congrats, God of War. For once it's nice to see Metacritic users vote-bombing for the forces of good.

 

[The Cockatrice]

Metacritic users failed to get gud enough to enjoy Elden Ring.

Tbh I think some berserker bosses are harder than a lot ER bosses on hardest diff, assuming u dont handicap urself in ER on purpose. Not saying they are better designed in Ragnarok, not all, most are tedious af, but yeah.

Anyway, undeserved first place imo. Improved over the first game but also weaker as a game. ER doesnt deserve it either because its not even the best FROM game, it just had more wider audience approach which is why its popularity exploded, with most of the users never playing a souls game before ER. Nice to see HFW in top 3 tho. That game deserves all the achievements for its tech alone. Nice to see Tunic as well, its my indie of the year.

 

[El Muerto]

Can't believe Vampire Survivors is on there, and beat Bayo 3, Neon White, and Sonic. The game is essentially a freeware game you would find on gamehippo 20 years ago. A twin stick shooter but you use one stick and play as a ripped off Alucard from Castlevania, Great Valuecard

 

[remember_spinal]

Game of the people

 

[Gaiff]

Correct choice. The combat in Ragnarok is way more fun than any souls game.

That's kind of true, but the other 50% of the game is also sleep-inducing.

 

[Mossybrew]

Trying to recall the last time such a thoroughly underwhelming game received such praise. Probably BOTW.

 

[diffusionx]

Guess I should start watching Better Call Sauls asap uh.

Eh

 

[Banjo64]

This can go high up on the special shelf, right next to Xbox’s Publisher of the Year Award 2022.

 

[HeisenbergFX4]

Cool I guess.

Honestly I haven't been able to finish it as it just feels empty or something TO ME this is just a personal opinion

 

[TintoConCasera]

Eh

Eh? Eh what motherfucker.

 

[Gaiff]

Trying to recall the last time such a thoroughly underwhelming game received such praise. Probably BOTW.

BOTW had uniqueness going for it. Eric Williams failed to enhance what was a great game and actually made it worse. I hope he never touches a GOW game again.

 

[remember_spinal]

BOTW had uniqueness going for it. Eric Williams failed to enhance what was a great game and actually made it worse. I hope he never touches a GOW game again.

One is a sequel to a game that closes the story that was already a huge reinvention. Lets see if tears of the kingdom is a reinvention of BOTW

 

[DenchDeckard]

Lmao. This right here is the reason to not pay any attention to metacritic.

Gow ragnarok is the most underwhelming game of the last I don't know how many years. It's a mess. A great attempt of how to make zero cohesion in a story and just slap bits together with no thread of story to tie it all together.

I've put it down and just not even bothered to go back to it.

If someone told me I would do that to a god of war game I'd laugh in their face.

Its the most ok game of the year.

 

[LiquidMetal14]

 

[ÆMNE22A!C]

I know it's coming so in case some of you might be wondering:

https://www.healthline.com/health/why-are-tears-salty

What's wrong with your profile picture

 

[ÆMNE22A!C]

Lmao. This right here is the reason to not pay any attention to metacritic.

Gow ragnarok is the most underwhelming game of the last I don't know how many years. It's a mess. A great attempt of how to make zero cohesion in a story and just slap bits together with know thread of story to tie it all together.

I've put it down and just not even bothered to go back to it.

If someone told me I would do that to a god of war game I'd laugh in their face.

Its the most ok game of the year.

My casual gaming neighbor was like HEY MAN GOW2 IS COMING *EXCITEMENT*

Took all my social skills to not indirectly insult him. I was like yeah... *blank face* yeah cool man. Not my game but yeah... cool!

 

[Hobbygaming]

BOTW had uniqueness going for it. Eric Williams failed to enhance what was a great game and actually made it worse. I hope he never touches a GOW game again.

For me Ragnarok >>> GoW 2018

 

[Hobbygaming]

Lmao. This right here is the reason to not pay any attention to metacritic.

Gow ragnarok is the most underwhelming game of the last I don't know how many years. It's a mess. A great attempt of how to make zero cohesion in a story and just slap bits together with no thread of story to tie it all together.

I've put it down and just not even bothered to go back to it.

If someone told me I would do that to a god of war game I'd laugh in their face.

Its the most ok game of the year.

Crazy pills. GoW Ragnarok is epic

 

[Gaiff]

For me Ragnarok >>> GoW 2018

Can't agree there. Ragnarok feels like they shoved two games worth of storyline into one and it's bloated. Too many characters, too much talking, too many cutscenes, and terrible pacing killed the game for me.

2018 was almost perfect in terms of story/gameplay ratio.

 

[SlimySnake]

BOTW had uniqueness going for it. Eric Williams failed to enhance what was a great game and actually made it worse. I hope he never touches a GOW game again.

Remember when Cory Barlog tweeted, "ERIC WILLIAMS. Remember the name!"

No one will remember him. Makes a game called ragnorak, and then has Ragnorak show up in the background. What a visionary!

 

[Fess]

Lmao. This right here is the reason to not pay any attention to metacritic.

Gow ragnarok is the most underwhelming game of the last I don't know how many years. It's a mess. A great attempt of how to make zero cohesion in a story and just slap bits together with no thread of story to tie it all together.

I've put it down and just not even bothered to go back to it.

If someone told me I would do that to a god of war game I'd laugh in their face.

Its the most ok game of the year.

How long did you play? I got bored in the middle just before getting the spear, stopped for awhile, then went back and finished it after a short break. I really liked the last 10 hours or so, the story ramped up and the action became a lot more varied with the new weapon. They rushed the final level though, big letdown.

 

[Hobbygaming]

Can't agree there. Ragnarok feels like they shoved two games worth of storyline into one and it's bloated. Too many characters, too much talking, too many cutscenes, and terrible pacing killed the game for me.

2018 was almost perfect in terms of story/gameplay ratio.

It's the opposite for me. Ragnarok has the much better combat, better story imo but it doesn't work without 2018's story I know. Every character was very well written in Ragnarok and the endgame content is a lot better. The boss fights are better besides The Stranger

 

[Gaiff]

It's the opposite for me. Ragnarok has the much better combat, better story imo but it doesn't work without 2018's story I know. Every character was very well written in Ragnarok and the endgame content is a lot better. The boss fights are better besides The Stranger

I agree with better combat but I don't think it was improved enough to make up for the major setbacks it took in everything else.

Disagree with better characters. Kratos and Atreus are horribly written in Ragnarok. I do appreciate Thor and Odin, but none of the new characters were as compelling as the ones introduced in 2018 and the ones already there weren't improved to any significant degree except for perhaps Mimir.

And yeah, the boss fights are definitely better. I just wish so many of them weren't gated behind long chains of sidequests. 2018 had a major weakness in that aspect.

 

[SafeOrAlone]

It's the most I've disagreed with the general consensus since FF7 Remake. As far as games I was able to play, obviously.
And like FF7 Remake, I felt the problems were rooted in the awful pacing with constant stop-and-start gameplay.

 

[Hobbygaming]

I don't see how anyone likes 2018 Atreus over the Atreus in Ragnarok. Same with Kratos but we can agree to disagree on that

 

[TommyCronin6969]

Horizon at 3rd is the real shock here

 

[GHG]

What's wrong with your profile picture

You tell me.

 

[ÆMNE22A!C]

You tell me.

 

[CZY]

Ooff, here comes the triggered horde ready to defend the most empty, repetitive and worst user experience open world game of the last times!

I come in to read discussion about the games on the list and it’s more like here comes these posts. Ironic af.

 

[3liteDragon]

My GOTG rn.

 

[Crispy Gamer]

Best game of the generation for me awesome adventure and incredible performances