Alby_da_Wolf on 03 March 2009
| DMeisterJ said: Hell no. Being critical of a game only works if it's constructive. And you can not be critical, constructive or not, unless you've personally played whatever part of the game you're being critical of. |
This doesn't require buying: one could try the game at a friend's or at a shop, or get enough infos from a review whose author he knows as reliable, and like it (or be reasonably sure he'll like it), but finding a serious issue, he could like to make developers know he wants to be sure it will be solved within a reasonable term before buying it.
Anyhow I agree that excluding reviews that one can consider reliable and as unbiased as humanly possible, at least according to his tastes, constructive criticism requires in every other case playing the game.
