Insomniac Games’ new title *Marvel’s Wolverine* has launched with a Metacritic score of 78. But look at the breakdown: major outlets like IGN and VGC all gave it low scores around 60, while an obscure site’s perfect 100 score dragged the average up. This gap became a hot topic on 5ch’s hardware/industry (Geha) board, where posters piled on with specific complaints — pointless QTE sequences, glitchy character models, and more.
60 — IGN
60 — VGC
Exactly
This is a genuinely, certifiably bad game
O-oh…
It got roasted hard when the gameplay footage dropped, but I hope it lands well with actual players…
Isn't the ceiling in your house kinda low? (i.e., your standards are low)
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Isn't the ceiling in your house kinda low?
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Isn't the ceiling in your house kinda low?
Just go buy the game already, come on
it's a 78 EVEN WITH the manipulation
A terrifying truth
ΩΩΩ<Wh-WHAT DID YOU SAY?! (iconic shock-meme face from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure)
Yeah, that's gonna be pretty mediocre
Strip the traversal/movement out of a Spider-Man game and of course it turns into garbage
60 is too high a score to call 'extremely low'
A major review site scoring a major publisher's game a 60?
That's basically a zero in disguise
Marvel's Wolverine has quick time events in some scenes — except it turns out you don't actually need to press the button to clear them.
Whether you press it or not, nothing changes. This is making me lose my mind.
https://x.com/reviewsjao/status/2098073858456633715?s=61
People are trolling it with 'this controller would be enough' (image of a controller with basically one button)
The gameplay's more shallow than stuff from the Famicom (NES) era
Even a single button might be too hard for Sony fanboys (note: 'ソにー' is a mocking misspelling of Sony)
– QTEs you don't even need to press
– Luxuriously hairy arms
Wow… now THIS is a god-tier game (sarcasm)
That's like two strikes already, huh? (baseball metaphor for 'almost done for')
Every single time a fight ends, Wolverine mutters to himself, 'Red, where the hell are you?!' just to point the player toward the next objective.
This happens constantly, nonstop, throughout the whole game. It's so bad it feels like you're being mocked.
A game made for kindergartners
Fits the PlayStation userbase perfectly
the actual gameplay must be a genuine disaster
Yeah, this is the game where the whole world went 'uh oh' the second the gameplay footage dropped
Is it just plain not fun?
There aren't any major bugs or glitches, so it's a case of the game just being purely boring
Seriously sucks that Insomniac keeps getting stuck with nothing but Marvel work
They even had Arc System Works make Marvel Tokon 😄
Sorry, haven't played it myself, but
I heard Concord was solid gameplay-wise apart from the character designs
So maybe it's not actually a bad game?
If it were just IGN scoring it low, sure, but ALL the major outlets are low 🥺
Background and Key Points of This Discussion
*Marvel’s Wolverine* is an action game developed by Insomniac Games. A Metacritic score is an average of scores from multiple outlets, so the overall impression can shift a lot depending on the breakdown — and that’s exactly what happened here. Major outlets like IGN and VGC scored it around 60, while a high score from an obscure site appears to have pulled the average up, and that gap is what fueled speculation of ‘score manipulation.’ That said, no one in the thread actually presented evidence of manipulation — it remains pure speculation on 5ch’s part, so that should be kept in mind. The claim that the QTEs (quick time events) don’t respond to button input traces back to a social media post, and posters cited it as one more data point on the game’s overall polish. AAA titles are generally expected to land around 80 on Metacritic, so a score in the 60s counts as a relatively harsh verdict — which is likely what drove the reaction in the thread.
※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Hardware/Industry (Geha)) thread “Wolverine’s Metacritic Is 78, But Every Major Outlet Rated It Super Low 🤣www“.
