According to Metacritic, the best games in 2017 come from Bethesda

American website Metacritic, which gathers ratings or reviews of professional critics in one place, recently published a standard annual report that relates to the best publishers in the previous year. In order to determine who was the most successful, the average Metascore was taken, the percentage of excellent (90+), good (75+) and bad titles (49 or less).

According to these data and given factors, American publishing house Bethesda Softworks, which many know for The Elder Scrolls and Fallout video games, has occupied the first place actually was named the best publisher in 2017. Through an offer of 23 titles, Bethesda managed to achieve an average Metascore of 79.9 while the Japanese company Nintendo, despite big hits like Super Mario and Zelda, only finished second.

Namely, Bethesda's games such as Prey, The Evil Within 2, Wolfenstein 2 and standalone expansion Dishonored: Death of the Outsider are all critically acknowledged titles, but despite this they have not achieved commercial success.

As for other publishers, Ubisoft, which stands on the sixth, and Activision Blizzard, which took fourth place, improved compared to last year, while Square Enix and Sony were slighty worse and fell to seventh or eighth place on the list. The last on the list is Telltale Games which last year failed to make a game that would went over the threshold of 80 points.

If you're wondering where Electronic Arts got lost, the American publisher did not even qualify to be among the big faces since this year it did not meet the criteria that should publish a minimum of 12 titles over a period of 12 months. However, it is worth pointing out that their average Metascore in year's time fell from 79 to 48, especially due to the disappointment called Star Wars Battlefront 2 and Need for Speed Payback.

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