This discussion will go on and on because people don't seem to understand what the definition of "opinion" is. Let me elaborate... "Orange is the best flavor". "A Mustang is better than a Camaro". "COD: WaW is a failure". THESE ARE OPINIONS. "1+1=2" "The capital of Virginia is Richmond" "COD: WaW is the most played game on Xbox Live" THESE ARE FACTS. Some people just don't understand how someone could have a different opinion than they do, and simply believe their opinion is fact and they are the smartest person to ever walk the Earth. This discussion would go much easier if everyone sat down and evaluated the meanings of opinions of facts.dirtydishko2

It would also help if anybody new which facts matter in determining whether something is good or not. Whenever any restaurant critic goes to work they take into account taste, presentation, and a whole bunch of other factors that I'm not privy to, but one thing they don't care about is how often that certain dish is ordered. Because like it or not the popularity of the dish does not make it good, but what does make it good (and what matters in the overall score) is its content and substance. So, yes everyone will have different opinions on whether or not a game is good, but dismissing one person's opinion as wrong because they have no hard facts (or even facts that are meaningless) is pointless because you bring nothing worthwhile into the conversation but numbers that mean nothing to the other person who wants to hear actual testimony as to why you oppose them. After all aren't all ratings based on some other person's opinion? Numbers mean nothing to a system that is based on someone's own feelings.