Stop reading reviews

[DKHustlin]

twesterm said:

DKHustlin said:

I know this might be hard to do at first, but why do people who say "i dont trust reviews" or "reviewers are wrong and inconsistent in scoring" still read reviews? I have avoided every review for games I could purchase for years now. The only time I read reviews is when the controversy over a score is creating threads on popular gaming sites, vgc included. If people stop reading reviews altogether, Metacritic and review sites would have no power. It might be hard at first to judge games on your own using screenshots, videos, demos, or whatever you need to justify a decision, but it would kill reviews and their power over sales and gamers.

Ugh, I was going to leave this at a simple no but after reading the OP again, this just couldn't be more fail.

That bolded statement could possibly be one of the dumbest things I've ever read on this forum.  You can't base a game on screenshots, it's as simple as that.  If I based games purely on screenshots and video demos, I would have bought Haze, Lost: Via Domus (actually I did buy that but I knew what I was getting in to), Lair, Bomberman Zero, Saw, Saw II, FFXIV,Red Steel,  Sonic the Hedgehog, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Tron Evolution,  Fighters Uncaged, Too Human, Damnation, Naughty Bear, Terminator Salvation, X-Blades, and countless other awful games.

You've heard the expression don't judge a book from its cover right?  Why do you think that expression exists?

i didnt say just screenshots though, i said gameplay videos, etc., etc.

its fine if you think its dumb, but at least acknowledge the whole comment