Why are Metacritic and GameRankings that important for some Gamers?

[FishyJoe]

megaman79 said:

Desroko said:

FishyJoe said:
I don't know why people rely on reviews anymore to be quite honest. Most game magazines are almost completely dependent on ad revenue from the very games they are reviewing.

 

Not to mention that the people doing the reviewing are generally the J-school grads who couldn't get jobs in real media.

 

Actually i think most of them are working in Public Relations now. Especially now with the whole internet journalism thing.

The game magazines are like proxy third party PR people. The more product they can sell, the more likely they'll get more ads in the future.