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Lafiel on 17 February 2012
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Mummelmann said:
Lafiel said:
vlad321 said:

In today's day and age of absolutely, horrifyingly, ridiculously shitty, overhyped games piracy seems to be the only way to actually see if the game is good, or as is the case significantly more often than not, just hyped up by a lot of dumb sheep. Maybe if there were proper demos this wouldn't be as big of a problem.


Or just proper reading of several reviews and a good understanding of your own preferences could do the trick, but no, thats too hard for many people nowadays as it requires reading skills.

Apart from that in this day and age most games are actually "good". There's hardly any games that are unplayable and only few that control so bad that you can't have any fun with them, but the true "gems" are still as rare as in the past, as most games stick to "tried and true" (creating lesser versions of known blockbusters) and while that can produce "gems" through a lot of refinement it's still easier to be wowed by sth thats completely new.


Reviews? Where do you think the overhype comes from? This generation is a complete farce as far as braindead games and incredibly silly and inflated reviews are concerned. The fact that a score of 8.5 is considered average nowadays speaks volumes of this idiocy.

I'm not defending piracy, even though I used to pirate a lot myself, but getting a clear view of what a game is all about and how good it actually is is pretty hard today.

PS: How do pirate haters feel about used game purchases? Surely this is robbing the developers of every bit as much money as a pirated copy? Esepcially if the game changes hands several times. Gamestop should burn in hell I suppose.

You seem to have misunderstood me, I said "reading" reviews could help you decide, not that looking at numbers would do the trick.

Like you said yourself the number is of little importance these days, but actually reading still has value, especially since you may come across reviewers that do have a very similar taste to your own.Ofcourse just going by a single one won't do and neither does reading 3 "10/10 tis de best gaim evaa" kind of reviews, but selecting a good choice of criticising and praising reviews usually does give me a good understanding of a games strenght and weaknesses and the general gameplay experience.

Considering the investment of 40-60€ (I do buy some games used and I fully support online passes as long as they stay at 10€) the time spent to help me decide seems very reasonable an investment to me.