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OpenCritic.com is a new website to rival Metacritic in aggregating video game reviews. The site features a fully customizable drop down list so you can choose to display and read only your favourite publications.

We are happy to announce that Official GBAtemp reviews will now feature on OpenCritic.com!

What makes OpenCritic different? Check out the following info from their FAQ:

• Transparency. No hidden weightings. No black-box processes. All standards and calculations are publicly verifiable.
• Customization. Gamers can create their own personal score by customizing which publications they trust. And critics can submit edits to both their score and quote at any time.
• More than a number. We aggregate all reviews, not just numerical ones. We also want to show the human side behind the review and score, with our first step being to display the author.
• Gamers first. We are committed to continuing development in the review aggregation space and want to engage the gaming community to decide which features to build next

Be sure to check out the new site:

OpenCritic.com
OpenCritic Twitter

 

[HaloEliteLegend]

I love websites like this that upend the archaic systems of old! And it's awesome that TEMP reviews will be featured here! I always hated how only the big sites get their reviews on Metacritic, when smaller sites also have meaningful reviews and content to share that matches up with what the big guys are saying.

Plus, Metacritic was kind of a joke anyways. I mean, have you ever looked up Cory in the House on there?

 

[Hyro-Sama]

6.5/10

Not enough water

 

[HaloEffect17]

Well, we have some of the best reviewers here so there was no doubt that it would happen eventually.

 

[Costello]

It's not true.
GBAtemp gets at least some of their games from the publisher like many other sites.
Example: Release day (USA) for Persona 4 Dancing All Night: 29Sep. GBAtemp review release date: 28Sep. GBAtemp received a copy of this game from the publisher for the purpose of reviewing it. More than that we don't know.

OK so you can customize which reviewers you trust. Which reviewers do you trust though? You need a feature where you can list games you like and pick reviewers that rated those games highly.

if you can't trust us then who can you trust?
you won't find a community on the web that's more independent than us.
we aren't backed or sponsored by game publishers. We can say whatever the fuck we want about games. And that's whats good about us

 

[Hells Malice]

Meh. Still uses the archaic number based review system.

 

[HaloEliteLegend]

Meh. Still uses the archaic number based review system.

We don't have artificial intelligence, well, intelligent enough to scan through a written review for positives and negatives, and even if we did, how would it give us that info? Sure, it can give snippets from those reviews, but Metacritic and Opencritic already do that. So thus, it would resort to numbers or letters.

There's nothing wrong with numbers. What's wrong is that there's no standard to compare to when assigning number values. Actually, if you want to forego numbers, then just open the review and read through it, then decide for yourself if you agree with the author or not.

 

[Foxi4]

Meh. Still uses the archaic number based review system.

I personally don't fancy numeric scores either since everyone has a different concept of what they represent - to me anything below 5 is below par for X reasons and anything above 5 is recommended for X reasons, but that's arbitrary. This is why OpenCritic posts our summaries alongside the score - the number is just a number, a written description always trumps it.