Opencritic introduces new player rating feature & user reviews.

[Eric2048]

LegitHyperbole said:

Eric2048 said:

I can't really take user reviews seriously because of review bombing, fanboy warring, political opinion nonsense, etc. honestly i thought user reviews should be removed completely from metacritic entirely unless they added a way users can verify that they actually played a game. I trust steam reviews because you have to at least played the game for 2 hours before you review. So not really thrilled that open critic added this.

If they really want to do user reviews they should have a way to link your steam, psn, xbox, nintendo, etc account that shows you played the game. would greatly reduce the amount of troll reviews.

Nah, it shows a sign, a symptom... a red flag so to speak and a warning something is up. If you look into what's up and it turns out to be something stupid like a female character is bikini is getting changed or the whole JK Rowling thing with Hogwarts Legacy then ignore it but it's good to know when something actually is up. There's a lot of stuff I've learned from those redflags like the remaster of Warcraft 3 for example which was fucked and nothing like the game I remember or the little changes to the remaster of Dark souls, which I decided to buy anyway but it was good to know because of user reviews as games media does not cover that kind of really magnified nuance. Got burned badly on the GTA remasters and I wished I'd have listened to the user reviews. They help and don't really hinder anything, just ignore them if ya find them to be a shit idea. 

There are plenty of video reviews that tend to go over stuff like that better, and steam reviews system that the other platforms should adopt. Metacritic user reviews are just a bunch of morons spamming 0 and 10's.