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The top critics in gaming. All in one place. OpenCritic is a review aggregator for video games, collecting reviews from the top publications in gaming such as IGN, GameSpot, Polygon, and Eurogamer.
  • simple@lemm.eeEnglish
    162·
    24 days ago

    I’m really not a fan of this. Opencritic’s entire point is to filter out the garbage and be a great way to see a summary of reviews from professional critics. One look at Metacritic’s user reviews and you know it’s just going to be flame wars of fanboys and haters.

  • PunchingWood@lemmy.worldEnglish
    123·
    24 days ago

    Ehh… lack of user reviews are exactly what made OpenCritic better than MetaCritic.

    It will probably just end up the same as MetaCritic. Where anyone, including people who never played the game, can leave reviews. And it’ll sooner or later just degrade into yet another review-bombing platform where you’ll find absolutely nothing constructive in the user reviews (both negative and positive review spam).

    Also, walling the user score details behind a forced registration is just shit tier level. Apparently that’s just to post reviews, can’t see individual user reviews yet I think(?)

    I’m curious what argument the people that are just downvoting comments in this thread actually have. These days nothing good comes from gaming platforms that have user reviews. It’s just a cesspool of haters, trolls and fanboys circlejerking over 0s or 10s and hardly anything constructive and unbiased in between.

    • criss_cross@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      24 days ago

      I have a feeling they’re looking for more revenue streams and need to generate more user engagement

      • PunchingWood@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        24 days ago

        Yeah I don’t doubt that it will most definitely trigger people to visit the site more, especially if they get to engage with the content like that.

        Had kinda wished it was something else than user scores though. Or some other way of reviewing games instead of the same as other platforms.