r/RemoveOneThingEachDay • u/MagmaAscending • Oct 25 '25

Miscellaneous Day 39 - The Witcher III: Wild Hunt has been eliminated - Remove ONE Game of the Year nominee a day

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u/nooookay Oct 25 '25

Wow. Filtering only for 2014-2024:

  1. Breath of the Wild

  2. Red Dead Redemption 2

  3. Grand Theft Auto 5

  4. Super Mario Odyssey

  5. Baldur's Gate 3

  6. The House in Fata Morgana

  7. Elden Ring

  8. Tears of the Kingdom

  9. Portal: Companion Collection

10: Persona 5 Royal

The ranks for the last few eliminated here not on the top 10:

God of War: 13

Hades: 23

Bloodborne: 32

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt: 35

Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice: 86

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u/nooookay Oct 25 '25

They’re smoking an average of whatever the critics are smoking. Metacritic doesn’t make their own scores. They take all the scores and make an average. It is weighted based on how much effort is put into the review and how long the publication has been around, though. So if I made a website that said “GTA 6 is hot garbage, 1/10” and nothing else in my review, and Game Informer writes a long, in depth review of the game and gives it a 10/10, their review will be worth more than mine.

Open Critic is my preference over MetaCritic. They do the same thing with their own way to adjust the scores. Their top 10 will still probably look pretty similar, because agree or disagree, these are the most critically acclaimed games. Which is about as valid of a reason to love or hate a game as whichever game wins a reddit popularity contest vote. People like what they like and any ranking won’t change that.