fluky-nintendy said:
Well I personally can say that I'm quite affected when the genre of the game is particularly not my cup of tea. What I usually do then is to check videos of people playing the game and see for myself and sometimes I'm still reticent. With my favorite games however, I just pre-order them and that's it. Only games I ever did so were Dark Souls / Dark Souls 2 and Freedom Wars now, not disappointed so far! However I did regret paying full price for Heavy Rain, but that is mainly because I didn't search info about the game so I was really shocked that all I had to do was moving around and shake the controller :/ Other games like Remember Me (one of my personal favs of all time) or Knight's contract also scored low and very low respectively and I loved them! |
Fair enough. I find that these days there is an expectation in reviews that doesn't actually work to help the gaming industry. If the game is an annual franchise, it gets an 80-90ish score (for the most part) and is largely hailed for giving you the "same experience, with a few upgrades this time around" whereas a game that is not in an annual franchise gets a 70-80 for being "too much like game X" or "not different enough from it's predecessor to truly break away" or some other nonsense like that. Also, reviewers get caught up in hype (Destiny) just like we do, and that can sway a score in a direction that it wouldn't have gone in if they went in fresh.
I prefer to make my purchases based on my own gaming preferences (RPGs, Nintendo platformers, Survival Horror, TPS with good story) and research. And of course, demos.
