How much weight do reviews have on your purchasing decision?

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Mythmaker1 said:

curl-6 said:
Very little.
I learned my lesson when reviews steered towards games I despised, (Smash Bros, GTA, MGS4, Heavy Rain, Killzone 2) and made me avoid games that I ended up loving when I finally tried them. (Epic Mickey)
Reviews are just glorified opinions. I can form my own.

They can be useful, but you have to have a strong conceptualization of what you want from a game, as well as a good range of opinions of the game in question. Games with universally poor or universally positive reviews, I tend to avoid.

Aye this completely. Say if you have the greatest Fifa game in the universe which scores 100%.... it's still a Fifa game to me, you get a ball run up a field, someone takes the ball off you runs back down the field.... for 90 minutes! that is all I've seen since playing it on the megadrive that is what I still see :D Not going to hand over 60euros for 1080p version of running up and down a field after a ball.