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theRepublic on 22 May 2009
theRepublic said:
Pyramid Head said:
the worst ones are obviously Nintendo Power, OXM, and PS Magazine

kinda biased

the best is Edge

I don't know about the others, but Nintendo Power is actually fairly harsh in their reviews.

To actually back up my argument, I'll post this from another thread.

fkusumot said:

Average Review Scores
76.84% GamePro 
75.61% Gaming Age 
75.40% GameZone 
72.76% Game Informer 
72.25% Worth Playing
71.23% Cheat Code Central
70.01% 1UP 
69.69% GameSpy
68.47% IGN
67.94% Nintendo Power 
67.77% EGM
67.25% GameSpot 
65.43% Eurogamer



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Undying on 22 May 2009

Game Informer is the worst. Its nothing but a corporate tool to sell games.

 

 

Also Famitsu they are dirty.




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flagstaad on 22 May 2009

I like IGN because they usually share my tastes for games. But I also check Metacritic to have a general idea if the game is good, average or bad.

The worst it has to be g4tv, the 5 starts system is limited and they usually detest all the Wii games.



Tayne on 22 May 2009

For full reviews it's IGN. I've become lazy lately and began reading the summaries on Metacritic. If the score is from a lesser known site I'd usually just ignore it.

I also read Gamefaqs user reviews from time to time. Nothing beats the opinions of gamers who spent their free time to write a review on a game they purchased with their hard earned money.

Worst: Game Informer as of recently and I stopped reading GamePro damn near 10 years ago.




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Mr Khan on 22 May 2009

As a Nintendo fanboy, i've come to find that all of them are untrustworthy in terms of reflecting my values, and as an objective-minded gamer i can't really find one site that stands head-and-shoulders above the rest in terms of transperancy and objectivity.

 

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BxN on 22 May 2009

Best:
IGN
Gametrailers
X-Play (because they don't assign a precise score, they just give an amount of stars that allow us to see if a game is good or not, not if a game is .02 better than another)

Average:
Gamepro
Eurogamer
Gamespot


Worst:
Edge
Variety



Kos-mos on 22 May 2009
Undying said:

Game Informer is the worst. Its nothing but a corporate tool to sell games.

 

 

Also Famitsu they are dirty.

Have you read a whole review from famitsu?

 



Undying on 22 May 2009
Kos-mos said:
Undying said:

Game Informer is the worst. Its nothing but a corporate tool to sell games.

 

 

Also Famitsu they are dirty.

Have you read a whole review from famitsu?

 

 

Did you know they accept bribe money?




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theRepublic on 22 May 2009
Undying said:
Kos-mos said:
Undying said:

Game Informer is the worst. Its nothing but a corporate tool to sell games.

 

 

Also Famitsu they are dirty.

Have you read a whole review from famitsu?

 

 

Did you know they accept bribe money?

They are all like that to a certain extent.  Check out famousringo's sig.

"The worst part about these reviews is they are [subjective]--and their scores often depend on how drunk you got the media at a Street Fighter event."

         — Mona Hamilton, Capcom Senior VP of Marketing



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TX109 on 22 May 2009

Best: Xplay. they're fair, don't favor one console or developer over any others

Worst: GameInformer(reviws only, rest is fine) hate to sound like an angry fanboy but they seen genuinely biased against nintendo.