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TBH devs dont need real reviews anymore. The time when the people that had a brain were the ones that decided wether or not a game is a hit are long over.

Marketing is the key today.

If you cant make a good game, make people believe it is a good game.

So I agree.

And I find it kinda funny how all this works. I mean people that do know whats going on understand that not all reviews are okay (some are "influenced" by $$$ etc) so for them reviews dont have the value they could have. They are probably not more than a nice and dont alwas have an impact anymore.

On the other hand people that still get fooled and believe every review is"fine" are the ones that dont care about reviews anyway and buy stuff because its hyped up.

So in theory reviews can go the way of the THQ dodo and nothing would change.



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The thing is that big games that are either established franchises or big new franchises are usually pretty good. They are big for a reason. There isn't really a reason or possibility that the biggest games like GTA or UC or Halo could suck. Above 70 is still fun, after all for a game to have an average of 70+ there have to be some people who reviewed it with 8/10 or even 9/10.

Aggregated scores don't reflect how good a game is. They reflect what the majority thinks of it. And we all know the majority is always wrong. That's why in democracies only shitty people have the power.



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Gaming folks go read them, argue about them on forums like this, and in doing so, generate online traffic and ad revenue.

Reviews are great!



Some games, you just know what you're in for. I want a new WWE game. There's only one per year. It'll likely get reviews saying "Oh, it's just more of the same" or whatever but based on the quality of the past games, I know I'll like it so I buy it.

Same thing goes for a lot of games. Uncharted for the Vita wasn't the best game in the world but I knew I wanted an Uncharted game and I wanted it on the go. I bought it. If Mario Kart had shitty reviews (which it didn't) for lack of content or broken online or whatever, I'd still buy it. Same goes for Ground Zeroes. People are more informed than ever. We can see from press releases what a game is going to offer. I haven't touched anything from Destiny. Haven't even watched a review but I already knew that, no matter what critics gave it, it wasn't for me. At the same time, based on how I feel about the Batman series, I already pre-ordered Arkham Knight.

We don't need reviewers most of the time. I usually don't even read a review until I've finished a game.



Real costumers do not care about reviews. If the commercials for a game are amazing they will go and buy it. It is us forum dwellers that "care" about reviews.



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Heftely disagree. If companies make the same crap all the time, eventually it'll affect sales



vivster said:
The thing is that big games that are either established franchises or big new franchises are usually pretty good. They are big for a reason. There isn't really a reason or possibility that the biggest games like GTA or UC or Halo could suck. Above 70 is still fun, after all for a game to have an average of 70+ there have to be some people who reviewed it with 8/10 or even 9/10.

Aggregated scores don't reflect how good a game is. They reflect what the majority thinks of it. And we all know the majority is always wrong. That's why in democracies only shitty people have the power.


This post here is superb, and basically sums it all up.



They don't need them, but if a game reviews good it can only help.



Not really, when you have things like youtube where you can instantly access gameplay footage to see whether or not it's good.



iStrikeFirst said:
Real costumers do not care about reviews. If the commercials for a game are amazing they will go and buy it. It is us forum dwellers that "care" about reviews.

Forum dwellers, hey?  

 

I think reviews matter still. They were a factor in my purchase of shadow of mordor recently. Newer fans of gaming will also appreciate reviews. 

 

You think all their online traffic comes from us champion?