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Valkyria00 on 26 July 2008

The editors opinions or reviews that I take serious like to read/hear anymore are Greg Millers,Craig Harris.Daemon Hatfield,Shane Bettenhausen, Garnett Lee, and someone else from the IGN playstation team forgot his name but he sings at the end of the Podcast Beyond podcast.

I used to care about Matt Casamasina and Bozons opinions but now I dont give a shit. I usually disagree and the way they back their opinions up suck.

If im not reading a review or preview from the any of the people in bold (and the singer) I wont take their opinion seriously and just read some of it to get some information.
Which is why most reviews I dont listen to and some people really take reviews/previews way too seriously.

 

 

 



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Dystopian Delight on 26 July 2008

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BrainBoxLtd on 26 July 2008
Dystopian Delight said:
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Seconded.

 



Zucas on 26 July 2008

None. They are just like every other media now. Took the gaming media a little longer to get there but now they are fully there. All about the views instead of the substance.



TWRoO on 26 July 2008

I don't.

To a point the reviews in Official Nintendo Magazine usually agree with my view, but they can be too lenient sometimes (Donkey Kong games)

I don't take the internet, or anything from it seriously.



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dougsdad0629 on 26 July 2008

Reviews from "professionals" are the same as reviews from "amateurs". They are all just opinions. Unless they are affected by some sort of financial incentive to the reviewer the only thing different from someone like Matt on IGN vs. any one of us is the fact that he gets to play a lot more games than we do and therefore has a broader perspective.



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dougsdad0629 on 26 July 2008

Furthermore, IMO, the best way to evaluate whether or not a game is for you is to read as many reviews as possible to get a wide variety of opinions. The only reviews I really don't take seriously are when somebody very obviously doesn't like a certain genre, but then reviews the game negatively.



Keep this in mind when reading what I type...

I've been gaming longer than many of you have been alive.

JaggedSac on 26 July 2008

Why would anyone's opinion matter more than anyone else's? All opinions should be taken with a grain of salt. That is why information from all news channels must be scrubbed clean of their agendas before the facts can be gathered.



FinalEvangelion on 26 July 2008

As a jRPG fan, I haven't taken too many seriously in a long time. 90% of reviewers rate jRPGs in "I'd rather be playing Halo than reviewing this crap."



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DMeisterJ on 26 July 2008

IGN. I always take IGNs reviews as law. They're the only company I know that plays games to fruition before reviewing them. That gets massive points in my book. And by and large, they're the least biased review site of them all.