| Khuutra said: So... what's the effective difference, then? |
A sense of the person writing it. A lot of gamefaqs reviews don't feel like "reviews." Some are coming from the "I love this game, let me tell you why it's great" side, some are coming from the "I hate this game, stay away because..." side, and others are coming from the "I like this but not so much this" side. You take a little good with a little bad and mixed together I can get a better sense of the game.
Like I said above, the keys are "annonymous" and "bulk." Lots of opinions tell me more than one opinion. Lots of random people who aren't pretending to be measuring a game with an imaginary quality ruler are much more interesting than one self-proclaimed authority.
I go to 5 gaming websites, read the reviews of one game, and I'll learn about the same thing 5 times. I go read 5 gamefaqs reviews on the same game and I can probably learn something new in all of them.
