Thomas Mahler, the lead developer on the Ori games and the forthcoming No Rest for the Wicked, has launched a new website. It’s his answer to Metacritic and Opencritic, but fixes the biggest issue with those sites: their complete lack of saying just how much the gaming press sucks. VideoGamesCritic is a score-aggregating site that describes itself as “the one source of truth for gamers,” where player scores account for two-thirds of the weighting over those untrustworthy, and by implication untruthful, professional critics.
The methodology of the site is to take critic scores directly from OpenCritic and then combine them with “user
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