OpenCritic VS Metacritic

OpenCritic Reviews

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OpenCritic mentions (18)

• Ex-Kotaku staff go independent and launch Aftermath

  I don't think that is very accurate, in my experience the most popular reviews are Personality Driven and it is largely done in the youtube space, the next most popular writen sites are also more neutral when it comes to their reviews (Gamespot, IGN, Gameinformer, Eurogamer). Honestly people just want two things, to hear their favorite content creator talk about the game or have someone say how great it is. But in... - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

• ‘Metroid Prime Remastered’ Is a Proud Celebration of Letting Older Games Stay Feeling Old

  Check out the hall of fame at https://opencritic.com/ instead - no remakes/remasters/ports allowed, so it's all new games (ignoring Trails to Azure, though it's being released worldwide for the first time). Source: about 1 year ago

• What's up with the user score?

  Am I the only one that finds Opencritic to be much better at visualizing the reviews? Source: about 1 year ago

• What Python library is the best to scrap from OpenCritic?

  Import requests Import urllib.parse Games = ['onion asault','Untitled Goose Game','COD'] #need these headers else they know you are scraping and tell you to go get a api key lol Headers = { 'accept':'application/json, text/plain, */*', 'origin':'https://opencritic.com', 'referer':'https://opencritic.com/', 'user-agent':'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36... Source: about 1 year ago

• Fandom Buys TV Guide, Metacritic, GameSpot and Other Brands for About $50 Million in Cash

  Metacritic blows. Rotten tomatoes isn't the best but it's much better than Metacritic for TV and movies and Opencritic is a million times better for video games. Source: over 1 year ago

Metacritic mentions (18)

• What Happened to this Once Great Site?

  It's Thursday night. I'm considering going to see 'Five Nights at Freddies' but not if it has bad reviews. I go to metacritic.com and it's not in the first row. Not in any of the rows on this horrendous website design. What the actual fuck? Source: 6 months ago

• Any games out there

  Go to metacritic.com and search for highest rated for your platform. With a request that broad that's your best option. Source: 11 months ago

• What console should I get?

  Go to metacritic.com look at the PS5 and Xbox lists of "best games" do a count of the top 20 for each system and see what system has more games you want to play. Source: about 1 year ago

• Is there a place that tracks/reports on all new MP game releases?

  Metacritic may be what you're looking for. Source: over 1 year ago

• Reviews are currently plummeting.

  I think we should always question corporations and whether something is a fluff piece, but I find metacritic.com's critical review scores to be extremely realistic and helpful. Source: over 1 year ago