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Gamerankings gets shut down on 9th December 2019

Bomi-Chan

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Man, iam using this page since... i dont know the end of the 90s, and now they are going to be merged with metacritic.

I know, this was eventually coming, if you give this page a look, it still looks like a website from the 2000s.
But i have grown to like it and still preferred this over metacritic(because this is solely for games)
so yeah.
Saying goodbye.


EDIT: can someone make a mirror of this website? there is so much data, which is not existing elsewhere.
 
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srtrestre

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Oct 25, 2017
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Woah

Edit: dat top 5 all systems is amazing.
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BlueManifest

BlueManifest

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Oct 25, 2017
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They also have a lot of old games on there with reviews that metacritic doesn't have will metacritic get those?
They have snes game's etc
 
Voke

Voke

Banned
Oct 28, 2017
1,336
I remember having to choose between two very garbage games I was interested in as a kid, but before hand I looked up "best games on ps2"

The latest hotness was FFX which had 90+ on game rankings. So I told my mom to get that one instead when she went for work. And that's how my addiction to RPGs began lol.
 
Serule

Serule

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Oct 25, 2017
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BlueManifest said:
They also have a lot of old games on there with reviews that metacritic doesn't have will metacritic get those?
They have snes game's etc
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Yeah for older titles they track a lot more reviews than MC.

Also way quicker than MC. Easier to make custom searches too (like best fighting games of all time, or best PSP games of 2008).

Also MC has become close to unusable on desktop anymore; every time I visit they slap up a full video ad that takes up literally 60% of my monitor.
 
Clive

Clive

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Oct 25, 2017
5,083
Sorting and finding games is so much easier than on Metacritic. Sucks to see it go.
 
NekoFever

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Oct 25, 2017
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It's actually nice to visit a site I used to use regularly and find it hasn't had a terrible redesign.
 
AlexMeloche

AlexMeloche

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Oct 27, 2017
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I remember going on their forums (or was it GameFAQs?) a lot when I was young. Didn't even know they were related to Metacritic.
 
KtotheRoc

KtotheRoc

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Oct 27, 2017
56,604
I can't remember the last time I visited Gamerankings. Still a shame to see it go.
 
Aaron D.

Aaron D.

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Oct 25, 2017
9,301
That's sad.

As others mentioned, they're sorting system (platform, year, genre, etc.) was unrivaled.
 
Saoshyant

Saoshyant

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Oct 25, 2017
1,995
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I still use Gamerankings frequently. Not only for new games, but also when looking for opinions on retro titles. Metacritic is extremely lousy in comparison, both in content and interface.

Nothing good lasts forever, I guess.
 
CenturionNami

CenturionNami

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Nov 2, 2017
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Kinda sad to see it go, but it's been rather useless the last decade.
 
Zero83

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Oct 29, 2017
573
Oslo
It sucks. GameRankings is a lot easier and quicker to navigate than MetaCritic. I visit that site every day, and I'll definitely not do the same with meracritic or opencritic.
 
CenturionNami

CenturionNami

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Nov 2, 2017
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I'm curious will it keep it's data and not get updated anymore, or will the entire site go under?
 
WillyFive

WillyFive

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Oct 25, 2017
6,976
Too bad, they were always superior to MC but couldn't get the wider audience to adopt them.
 
Rosenkrantz

Rosenkrantz

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Jan 17, 2018
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Bummer, Gamerankings is much more useful for an older stuff than any of the current aggregators, writing was on a wall for years tho, they barely had any reviews on new games.
 
BigTime_2018

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Dec 31, 2018
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I didn't know GameRankings and Metacritic were sister sites. Interesting.

It looks like OpenCritic is becoming the new Metacritic alternative.
 
DecoReturns

DecoReturns

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Oct 27, 2017
22,003
That sucks. I really like the site. Easy to use on mobile too lol

Also, Mario is king of video games lol
 
TissueBox

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Oct 25, 2017
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WAT NOE

DON'T!!

The only aggregate I've thoroughly enjoyed a perusal through since the dawn of sunflower seeds... merging into Metacritic?

*kicks conveniently placed can down hill* Dognabbit.

Before OpenCritic, GameRankings was the only public, highly accessible gaming aggregate in existence, one dedicated solely to the interactive entertainment industry. It's still the most comprehensive and to the point in the biz, particularly if you're looking for numbers and their crunched composites. Should have been put to use more often pro'lly, but whatevz. The past is the past. And now permanently so.

Lemonade. I give you, lemon.

If this does come to pass, you will be missed, Gamerankings. By the dozens and dozens, oh, oh.
 
JBucc

JBucc

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Oct 25, 2017
263
It doesn't feel like it was that long ago that this was the go-to site for game reviews, then seemingly overnight everyone switched to Metacritic. I don't remember when Metacritic added games, but I'd imagine they took over soon after that. I'd be curious to look at old OT threads on GAF and see when people started putting Metacritic in instead of Gamerankings. But not curious enough to go there. Also I had no idea Metacritic was a CBSi thing.
 
Soulnado

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Nov 7, 2019
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I remember it was Gamerankings what people cared about a long time ago, not metacritic. I wonder how the latter became the "defacto" review aggregator site.
 
spectator

spectator

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Jan 23, 2018
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Count me as another who will mourn its passing. It was inevitable the site get eaten, but it's still better than its competition.
 
Broadbandit

Broadbandit

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Oct 29, 2017
904
Man, the GR forums were the best. I remember my brother and I in the final voting round for best member on the forums lol. Back when there were FORUM CLANS. Miss the good ol days
 
riotous

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Oct 25, 2017
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Serule said:
Also way quicker than MC. Easier to make custom searches too (like best fighting games of all time, or best PSP games of 2008).

Also MC has become close to unusable on desktop anymore; every time I visit they slap up a full video ad that takes up literally 60% of my monitor.
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Unfortunately usability is not profitable, and in fact providing the easiest possible way to access the information you want the quickest is quite the opposite.

The more clicks it takes, the more time spent on a site, the more ads you see.

The web would have been better off if people actually embraced paying for access to web sites. The entire design of sites could change to be the most possible effective tool to get a user to pay, and not the most possible effective way for the visitor to spend time on the site viewing ads.
 
Huey

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Oct 27, 2017
13,177
oh man

Will all the old data migrate for older consoles and games? Metacritic seems like it has almost nothing prior to gen 6.
 

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Oct 27, 2017
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RIP. very good site, but the writing was on the wall. they haven't been tracking most games for years now.
 
mztik

mztik

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Oct 25, 2017
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It's been a while since I've been to that site! I can definitely see why they're shutting down, though. All things come to an end, I guess.
 
Huey

Huey

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Oct 27, 2017
13,177
just looked and metacritic's "legacy" platforms only include one gen 5 console - PS1 - and otherwise is gen 6 and beyond. Unless there is a data migration happening, all other gen 5 and prior data is going to be lost :(
 
Lebon30

Lebon30

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Oct 27, 2017
2,282
Canada
Hopefully Archive.org seems to have a perfect picture of the website. So, memories and reviews to games that aren't in Metacritics won't just *poof* out of existance.
 
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