The problem with Gamerankings is they don't cap when a review can be put in. Look at Halo 3 a year after the game came out there is a review from VGChartz which gave Halo 3 it's lowest score.
Neither. I stopped using Gamerankings after their redesign, and moved onto Metacritic. Then Metacritic had to have their own redesign which just plain sucked, so I don't visit them now either. These days, I'll just visit IGN, Gamespot and GT directly if I wanted reviews.
I jump back and forward when I'm dying to read first reviews, just to see who posts them first and what they have to say, once in a while one will outdo the other as far as posting first review so I make sure to check both, then again once in a while if I check the game forums on GameSpot people will have links to early reviews before either of them get it
The game industry uses metacritic for the most part. On Steam, for instance, they list the Metacritic score next to games. Same for onlive. Seems like I read an article in GameInformer about most publishers going by metacritic scores also.
I've always used gamerankings, and for the majority of the time I've been here, that's what most people have used as well. As far as I'm concerned though, they're basically the same. Any descrepancies in scores between the two sites will typically be minute, so it's not like the vgchartz vs. NPD (and other regions) debate.
Metacritic usually has more working links to the reviews they feature, has more reviews and every now and then less dubious review sources. The only thing I'm hating now is their new display.
The problem with Gamerankings is they don't cap when a review can be put in. Look at Halo 3 a year after the game came out there is a review from VGChartz which gave Halo 3 it's lowest score. HarlockJC
You are trolling Sir! In all seriousness I stop the cutoff at a year or so after release now UNLESS is then releases in another region.
metacritic is even more ridiculous as they weight opinions of some people higher then others just because they work for some site with more reputation.
I appreciate that they put all the reviews in an easily accessible space, but I do not like the idea of simply averaging them. And some of the sites used are questionable.
I vote Gamerankings because I remember when they stripped out all the gamespot scores when Jeff left (and the resulting conspiracy theories and lulz that happened from it :lol: )
I vote Gamerankings because I remember when they stripped out all the gamespot scores when Jeff left (and the resulting conspiracy theories and lulz that happened from it :lol: )blue_hazy_basic
There was no "they" to blame as that was my error alone and obviously very bad timing of it to boot!
how did you end up running gamerankings? thats amazingMario1331
Just started off submitting tons of user articles way back in 2001!
Metacritic for sure I use them for movies and TV shows as well...in fact Metacritic is like my 5th or 6th most visited site according to my chrome browser haha.
[QUOTE="blue_hazy_basic"]I vote Gamerankings because I remember when they stripped out all the gamespot scores when Jeff left (and the resulting conspiracy theories and lulz that happened from it :lol: )Dracula68
There was no "they" to blame as that was my error alone and obviously very bad timing of it to boot! Yes I know, hence the theories and lulz! :D
[QUOTE="blue_hazy_basic"]I vote Gamerankings because I remember when they stripped out all the gamespot scores when Jeff left (and the resulting conspiracy theories and lulz that happened from it :lol: )Dracula68
There was no "they" to blame as that was my error alone and obviously very bad timing of it to boot!
how did you end up running gamerankings? thats amazingMario1331
Just started off submitting tons of user articles way back in 2001!
Wow you run Gamerankings...thats pretty damn cool! I think Gamerankings is nice...I just like Metacritic like I said because they do more than just games...still its awesome that you run GR.
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