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blaydcor on 19 April 2009

I usually go to Metacritic and look at the spread of scores (not the average), then weight them depending on how much stock I personally put in each review source. I'll read the full reviews of the ones that I deem worthwhile.

For a single site, I trust IGN most of the time. More than other sites anyway.

If there's any person who's opinion I will agree with/trust 9 times out of 10, it's Tycho/Jerry Holkins from Penny Arcade.

Crusty VGchartz old timer who sporadically returns & posts. Let's debate nebulous shit and expand our perpectives. Or whatever.

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Kantor on 19 April 2009

Khuutra said:

Kantor said:

ssj12 said:
why not VGChartz?

http://news.vgchartz.com/news.php?id=2970

http://news.vgchartz.com/news.php?id=2119

They give Chains of Olympus a 7.9, then Mega Man 9 a 9.2

They give Uncharted the same score as Civilisation Revolution

And the fact that they take forever to review everything...they review random crap like DiRT, while an amazing game like CoD4, two and a half years on, is still review-less.

I personally like IGN, because I agree with them 9/10 of the time, unlike most reviewers.

Keep in mind we aren't a single entity....

You don't fool me. You're all part of a massive hive mind, directed by Naznatips.

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Bullet100000 on 19 April 2009

Gamespot.com

tough but fair reviews.

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Kantor on 19 April 2009

Bullet100000 said:
Gamespot.com

tough but fair reviews.

Please tell me you're joking.

I don't see how anybody can like GameSpot any more. Except maybe hardcore PC fanboys...

Halo Wars, MadWorld, Wipeout HD, Uncharted, Twilight Princess, Tools of Destruction, Kane and Lynch (Jeff Gerstmann ), Metal Gear Solid, take your pic. Some of GameSpot's notoriously infamous reviews. Not to mention how their reviews are never more than two (tiny) pages and leave out a lot of important stuff, they no longer have component scores and only score to .5s, and for some reason they take forever to write reviews, except, of course on the 360. The 360 version of a game will be reviewed on opening day, the PS3 version reviewed a week later.

It took GameSpot three weeks to write a review of Valkyria Chronicles. Want to see it?

http://www.gamespot.com/ps3/rpg/senjounovalkyria/review.html?om_act=convert&om_clk=gssummary&tag=summary;read-review

I could have written that in half an hour, and it takes them three weeks.

Useless, useless reviewers.

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monkeyman40210 on 19 April 2009

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Gametrailers, IGN a bit behind. X-Play is for my laughs.

same for me

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Vetteman94 on 19 April 2009

I still like IGN or Gametrailers, but they have been getting bad. I have been enjoying VGChartz reviews lately, I seem to agree with them on most points

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Khuutra on 19 April 2009

Kantor said:

Khuutra said:

Kantor said:

ssj12 said:
why not VGChartz?

http://news.vgchartz.com/news.php?id=2970

http://news.vgchartz.com/news.php?id=2119

They give Chains of Olympus a 7.9, then Mega Man 9 a 9.2

They give Uncharted the same score as Civilisation Revolution

And the fact that they take forever to review everything...they review random crap like DiRT, while an amazing game like CoD4, two and a half years on, is still review-less.

I personally like IGN, because I agree with them 9/10 of the time, unlike most reviewers.

Keep in mind we aren't a single entity....

You don't fool me. You're all part of a massive hive mind, directed by Naznatips.

Just saying. What you mean is that Maxwell gave Chains of Olympus a 7.9, and then Naznatips gave Mega Man 9 a 9.2

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sly777 on 19 April 2009

IGN and Gamespot...

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