I generally rely on the reviews of a couple sites, and also use metacritic as a reference. Metacritic doesn't USUALLY influence my day one purchases, but it has in the past. The reviews of MGSV: ground zeroes, are what ultimately made me decide to hold off on buying it for a few months and wait for its price to go down. Reviews are also why I decided to cancel my preorder for The order. I also use it to see if I want to purchase a game I'm on the fence about. Like I decided to get Deus Ex and Shadow of Mordor because they was getting high review scores, and there's other examples of that too. I wouldn't say there's a cut and dry rule. Generally speaking, the less interest I have in the game, the more I let the reviews scores influence my decision. Like I knew I liked the killzone series, so unless it got absolutely atrocious reviews, I would have gotten shadowfall no matter what, and I in no way regret that decision. But then games that were just tiny blips on my radar, I usually won't purchase, day one at least, unless they are in the high 80's or higher. It's more on a per game basis though.
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