J_Allard on 16 September 2013
| trent44 said: I usually (not always) find user review average to be better representative of the quality of a game than the site review average. A keen eye for gameplay videos tends to garner the most weight in judging if I will get a game, but as far as discovery goes, I go down the list based on descending order of average user review scores. And even considering all of that, I still like Gamerankings.com better than Metacritic.com |
Even with loads and loads of fanboy troll scores on many games?
Hell, a user here was busted on GAF recently for writing up troll 360 reviews on Metacritic user scores. These kind of things make user scores even less credible than "professional" scores, which I already put 0 weight behind. Hell, I used to write for a website and still have reviews on Gamerankings.com that count towards scores for games. Aggregiate sites suck ass.
Back in the day I would read PSM (not the official one, but the bad ass one with Chris Slate as EIC), EGM, and Gamefan and would actually put some trust into those magazines. Now it's all about BS and ad dollars.
