To me, videogame ratings are just a bunch of aribitary, subjective and uneccesary numbers that give people who are to lazy to read reviews, an innacurate representation of the written review. The review itself is someone elses opinion anyway so people shouldn't really take to much out of it until they play the game for themselves. I've lost count of the amount of times i've read a negative review about a game, then tried out the game for myself and loved it. Even mk had some negative reviews and just because those critics had those opinions anout the game, it doesn't mean i did do.
Most critics aren't even in favour of review scores but the games industry and publishers in general almost force them in a way since they won't give coverage of their game if a certain site or publication refuses to stamp a review score on a game. They know people are easily influenced by these numbers since they can't make up their minds for themselves. This could be because those people can't access the game and try it out for whatever reason or even that they're too busy to read every single review for all games they're interested in though but still, basing your game purchasing decision on a number or letter..
I would assume most of those critics never went on to play mk competitvely and really get into like most people in the community today so they didn't get to expereince just how deep and fun the game is to us now considering most of them reviewed it release week. That's why most of us disagree with the list, well that and we're mk fans. Anyway bottom line, i don't think too much of these lists and probably never will.
just my little rant on review scores lol
