I only trust gamespot for reviews.

I trust IGN with my whole being...

Anything lower than a 7 won't get bought.

I trust IGN and Famitsu the most.

I made that thread. I hate "numerical" review scores, because I feel they are fanboy jibberish. I discussed it in depth there.

However, since then, Brawl has gotten really great reviews, and fanboys got owned.

I still hate IGN and Gamespot for reviewing based on opinion and ideology, but I feel its gotten a lot better at gamespot since Gerstman left, much to my pleasent surpise. I'm looking forward to not supporting his new, pro Microsoft review site. 

I have found game reviews very unreliable in the past. An example would be when Crazy Taxi was released for PlayStation 2 I read in a review that the game has frame rate issues.

I bought the game nonetheless and for all the countless hours I played it it never dropped from its silky smooth 60 fps.

So therefor I don't really trust written reviews. I also don't really trust what is being said in a video review, but by actually seeing that game in action I can easily judge for myself whether I would like it or not.

10%

90%....I don't just look at any one review. I look at averages, pros and cons; they never fail. The general consensus of a game's quality is usually exactly how I feel or will end up feeling.

I only really trust IGN, OPM and GT. However, I generally look at average reviews, and take what they say in their reviews as more important than the actual score. I really enjoy the GT reviews cause they have a lot of gameplay in them which helps me decide

I generally look at Gamerankings or Metacritic for an overall score, then I factor in the genre and hype for a game and if I'm still interested (and not sold on the game yet) I will read a couple of reviews to find out what the strenghts and weaknesses are of the game.

The reason hype is so important is that a highly hyped game tends to have a (somewhat) higher score than a game which received far less hype; and the reason why genre is so important is some genres (like FPS) tend to be over-rated, while other genres (like party games) tend to be under rated, so the same average score (70%) might mean one game is bad and another game is pretty good.