| mpereira said: I look at reviews as a percentage. If a reviewer gives a 3.5 to a game. I know that in 100 people only 35 will like the game. I use this thoughts because in my experience every game is loved by someone. One great example is casual games. Even if it received a mediocre score it could be the most funniest game to a person. |
That's an odd way of looking at it.... there are a great many games that get high scores, but don't sell well simply because most people don't enjoy them, Okami for example.
Similarly a lot of games that score relatively low are loved by millions.
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To me, reviews are useless, and that includes non-gaming media.... I don't even consider critics or reviews, and certainly not any kind of scoring system when choosing a book, or looking at art (art critics being there to basically bully people into believing what they believe) same for films... in fact I don't think I have ever read a review properly forany of those three media.
Music I on rare occasions read reviews to see if they are compared to any other artists i like, I never look at scores.
Games I often read at least 1 review of a game I am buying, though I have usually already made my decision about buying it beforehand based on preview information, reviews are only useful for me to read about what the content of the game is, I don't form an opinion of how good that content might be from someone else, and while I at least take notice of scores in gaming, I don't actually take notice (if you get my drift... a kind of look but don't see scenario, ormore correctly: see but don't care)
