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[Barozi]

SkyHold said:

Barozi said:

Without demos, how?

So it's either watching muted gameplay videos or renting the game/playing it at a friend's, which can only be done a good bit after the game is released.

A review doe snot tell you if a game is good or not since that i subjective and opinionated and a review does not tell you if you will enjoy a game which is the point of playing games.

subjective based on universal standards. I agree with 90% of all Metascores, so in theory I wouldn't even need to see any footage to know if I like a game.
On the flipside I know in 90% of all cases if I like a game or not and can predict the Metascore fairly accurate.

Still, reviews are very important. Just think of manipulated gameplay videos (Alien Colonial Marines) and many other games that had brilliant footage and then a review embargo that ended with the release date (Driveclub, Assassin' Creed Unity, Destiny and many more). They turned out to be massively disappointing.

Things like connection problems and disappointing content can't be seen by demos or official gameplay videos.