Alby_da_Wolf on 08 October 2014
I never depended on it: it can give me a very vague idea, but I trust more reviews on magazines or sites I respect or that at least have reviewers with tastes similar to mine. Even if I don't trust a review or I consider the reviewers respectable, but I don't share their opinions and tastes, if the review was written well enoughI can read the reasons why a high or low score was given and decide whether I agree or not. And obviously I rely also on word-of-mouth, again filtering it with my tastes: if a game is declared "awesome" by users, but the only reason given is graphics, and the game appears to be excessively on-rails, I know it's not for me.
