Very little. I like to read or watch reviews to get an idea of how the gameplay turned out, usually before the games released, but I don't purchase games due to a high Metacritic score, or avoid them due t o a low one. If I watch gameplay videos and it interests me, I'll purchase the game regardless.
This day and age, 99% of all games have a 6/10-10/10, so the review system is flawed anyways. Too many journalists are afraid to give a game that's playable a 5/10 or less because most gamers have it in their head that anything below a 7/10 is a bad game since they go by grading systems from school. What's the point in having the lower 60% if you're never going use it? This is the reason that the 5/5 system is the best. With the 5/5 system, a 3/5 is your average good game,the score that most games should be getting.
This isn't school, video games aren't on a school board rating system. In a video game there are fewer categories that are rated, where in school, you take 50 quesion tests where you can still miss 15 and pass.
