johnappseed84 on 06 May 2010
| FF_Fanatic said: you know what pees me off the fact that people are so obsessed with games being over 90 nowadays, i mean back in the ps2 days you knew that if it was over 7 there was still a really good chance that you would enjoy it, on both sides i have seen games classified as "flops" if they did not score over 90 or did not sell well, i really do not like this trend, we should just all chill out and learn to enjoy our games and forget about being obsessed with scores and sales |
Well unless you have a boatload of money, then you do need to pay attention to review scores because they are supposed to help you make your purchasing decisions.
That said, I am willing to make allowances for games in genres I like to get lower review scores. Japanese rpgs with really cute characters, I'm willing to check out as long as they have scores of 75 or over.
And, I spend a lot of my weekend hours watching horror movies on the SyFy Channel that quite a few critics probably wouldn't give good marks to them, but they're some of my favorite tv programming. (Been meaning to catch Happy Town on ABC, but I've missed its first two weeks. :( )
Anyway, Alan Wake still looks to be the best realistic (ie. it doesn't take place in outer space) horror game to be released this gen (other than the RE4 remake on Wii), so I'm very definitely still willing to check it out.
