Thomas Mahler Launches Videogamescritic.com
The site gives Steam user scores two-thirds weight and critic scores one third.
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Thomas Mahler, designer of the Ori series and director of No Rest for the Wicked, posted that he built videogamescritic.com as a personal database and decided to open it publicly. The aggregator draws from existing critic collections but assigns at least two-thirds of each final score to Steam player ratings. Replies from writers at Forbes, Kotaku, Polygon, and GamesRadar called the weighting method flawed or accused the site of using AI. Mahler replied that press reviews exist to help players decide on purchases and that alignment with player sentiment should be the goal. A Kotaku article reported Mahler labeling critics with differing opinions untrustworthy.
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Durandal@Durandal7777@NilesSankey What’s hilarious is how mad all of the gaming media outlets and reviewers are about this 😂 accountability is a bitch
ON OneEyeTheHard@OneEyeDaHard@FordJamesGames A writer for Polygon calling what others do slop LMAO! The jokes write themselves. Game journalists are a plague.
RO Robzbank@robzbank@NilesSankey The fact any of these are above 50 is crazy not a single one of them are trustworthy
TA Talyn@titanictitan26@Fabrazz bubsy deserves much higher but tides deserves much lower
PE Pepintor@FirstofLeo@Kotaku You are untrustworthy