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SvennoJ on 15 February 2017
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Veknoid_Outcast said:
Bofferbrauer said:

Reading carefully through reviews and/or trying a demo/beta before buying and not giving any crap about trailers. You can gnerally find out if the game can appeal to your tastes or not when doing so. Oh, and never preordering any game, I buy my games at budget price (exept Nintendo, since they tend to not lower their prices anytime soon) month or even years after release, generally during some sale. This has the advantages of 1. having to pay much less 2. mostly patched by then; thus better playable 3. often by that point it's a GOTY or similar version with the DLCs included, making you save even more money. You just need some patience...

That's good advice, but I've yet to find a critic or publications whose tastes match my own.

Demos and betas are a good idea, but they can be misleading also. A great first hour might lead to hours and hours of tedium. Conversely, a bad or mediocre demo might hide a great game. The Resident Evil VII demo is a good example.

Even there opinions vary, the RE7 Beginning hour demo was a very good representation of the game imo. At least if you went on down to the basement, if you only take the first opportunity out through the front door, hmm bad demo after all.

Demos are very tricky, they more often lead to not purchasing after all. Early access demos are even more damaging. I loved the KSP demo. By the time the game was ready for release my interest was gone. I'm glad I bought Rez Infinite on a whim. I played the demo later and it sucked. Actually from the VR demo disc I only bought Wayward sky after playing the demo. There was more cool stuff yet the demos had me satisfied enough already to rather buy something I had not played yet.

I do use metacritic now and then, easy place to find the negative reviews. Read a couple of those, if what they're complaining about is no issue for me (or actually a positive) then it's a good indication that I'll end up liking the game. Glowing reviews are pretty much always useless.