As a site for retro review sources - even if a lot of the links were dead - it's pretty irreplaceable. But I actually just emailed them and Marc Doyle, one of the site's co-founders, emailed back confirming that the data for the legacy systems that pre-date metacritic will be migrated to metacritic. So at least there's that. I agree the search functions are part of what made it great, but hopefully meta will up it's game in that regard.
(and reduce the intrusive auto-playing ads)
(and reduce the intrusive auto-playing ads)