ecurbj said:
After hearing that publishers pay reviewers to score their games high, or after hearing the Jeff dude from gamestop.com do with Kane & Lynch. It's so hard for me to trust reviews now.
I completely understand your preference, disolitude. I played Need for Speed Most Wanted for the Xbox 360 over GTA IV. I liked Most Wanted better and enjoyed it. Now that I beat that game, I'm playing Peter Jackson's King Kong now on the Xbox 360.
I use to use reviews as a way to justify my purchase because I didn't want to buy the wrong game. It's been proven to me that reviews are nothing but opinions of another person and shouldn't make you play the game because that reviewer said it sucked or its awesome.
If you like what you see as far as gameplay videos are concerned then buy the game and play the game. Thats what I've been doing the past couple of months.
Reviews generally make me sick reading that this game is trash because it didn't have this. Oh effing well. Get over it and play the game.
I know most of you are reviewers yourself. Everyone on the board say that they didn't like this game because of it did this and didn't like it because of that. Your a reviewer and your disagreeing with the reviewer that recommended the game for you.
So generally speaking, like I said. Reviews can sometimes be bias to certain games, paid buy publishers, can just say horrible things because they actually didn't play the game to the fullest so they said something in the review so that you won't pick it up.
All those factor into me forgetting about reviews and me actually looking at gameplay videos and reading about what the game is, then listening to someone giving a bias opinion about a game.
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This is the point I was trying to make but said in a more intelligent manner...good stuff.
I read the IGN review fully and he points out some things(like the forklift puzzle) which made me laugh as I realized that he was reviewing this game based on his personal gaming prefferences, not as a gaming entity which is to be purchased by other tastes.
