Review Dissapointment
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I make leaps of faith.
I don't really trust any reviewer. They're paid to get through the game in record time by deadline and if they must they have to use cheats to acquire said goal. It's not a pleasant atmosphere to get a real feel for the game. You're not sipping it like fine wine and delicately inhaling the aroma. You're chugging it out of a keg and you're going to wake up out if it bitter and sick. I prefer the former of playing video games, taking my sweet time. Which is why I usually disagree with reviewers, I suppose.
Then again, maybe things have changed... or I read something wrong once. My memory is awful.
I don't really trust any reviewer. They're paid to get through the game in record time by deadline and if they must they have to use cheats to acquire said goal. It's not a pleasant atmosphere to get a real feel for the game. You're not sipping it like fine wine and delicately inhaling the aroma. You're chugging it out of a keg and you're going to wake up out if it bitter and sick. I prefer the former of playing video games, taking my sweet time. Which is why I usually disagree with reviewers, I suppose.
Then again, maybe things have changed... or I read something wrong once. My memory is awful.
Prototype. It's hard to measure how pumped I was for that game just off the previews. I played that shit for an hour at best before I called it the most disappointing game of the year.
I don't bother taking reviews seriously any more. I usually disagree with them anyway. I tend to look at gameplay footage and write ups about what the story is about etc, and see whether I'll like it using those. Also i'll ask people who I know have similar tastes to mine and see what they think. Far more useful for me in my opinion.
This was pretty much my reaction. I'm not even a huge fan of metroid, but I was pretty pissed when I heard what they did with Samus.Drakmeire said:
It sounds awful...
Shadow the Hedgehog. And I went and got it anyway. Now I wish I listened...
But most other times I've never given a crap about reviews, and that's never lead me wrong. One bad time does not mean I'll always listen to the reveiwers. Just see it as a bad sign.
But most other times I've never given a crap about reviews, and that's never lead me wrong. One bad time does not mean I'll always listen to the reveiwers. Just see it as a bad sign.
one of them was Ghostbusters. I loved the movies and i thought the game would be awesome. But since i listen to yahtzee about which games are good, i decided not to listen to him on this one. unfortnatly because of my curiosity, i watched it and there were many problems with it. i don't ever listen to him again.
Your name is alarmingly appropriate.SnootyEnglishman said:
Also, your comment is a bit on the wonky side. People don't use 'reviews' as 'law', they use it as 'guidelines' to 'see if a particular cash investment is worth the cash investment'.
But no, you're clearly right, it's a much better idea to sink $60 into something shiny without bothering to do any research at all about it.
Consumer advocacy is for suckers, I say. Especially when dealing with a market that is notorious for having incredibly dodgy policies dictating returns. (PC games tend to have NO RETURNS, you know. None whatever.)
Women love a man who just hurls his cash at shit he has not bothered to learn anything about. It shows character.
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the review for monster hunter tri on gamespot really annoyed me because they didnt like really stupid things and they said that the game was bland, the only way you could call the graphics of that game bland is if you spend the entire time looking at the fucken ground, now you could call them low res but not bland
Man if the OP asked if anyone listened to reviews instead of asking which game did you not buy because of a review, everyone would be OT....
Draconis, review talked about bugs that + the demo wasn't that great.
Draconis, review talked about bugs that + the demo wasn't that great.
Metroid Other M. It looked awesome but then, I saw Spoony's review and was kinda dissapointed. Considering he usually knows what he's talking about.
So I guess I'm going to be the uncool guy who listens to "The Man" and "The Corporation". I get a lot of use out of reviews. They often give helpful information about gameplay, bugs, and other things that can make or break a game. I saw previews way early in development for Mafia II and I was thinking that even though I enjoyed the first game greatly, the setting and the gameplay style has been done and done to the point that it would just feel to same-y. The game comes out, reviews come out, and lots of them point out exactly what I was fearing.
I was really looking forward to Alpha Protocol, but then when it came out reviewers said a lot about horrible AI and game-breaking bugs. I'll still play the game eventually, but only when I find it really cheap or when I hear that a patch has come out that fixes the bugs.
You can just watch gameplay videos, but then developers aren't going to show the bad parts and the bugs. I appreciate reviews for giving me a filter. There's lots of games out there, so it's good to have something that gives me some sort of guide of what to buy now or wait until it becomes cheap, what to rent or what to steer clear of.
I was really looking forward to Alpha Protocol, but then when it came out reviewers said a lot about horrible AI and game-breaking bugs. I'll still play the game eventually, but only when I find it really cheap or when I hear that a patch has come out that fixes the bugs.
You can just watch gameplay videos, but then developers aren't going to show the bad parts and the bugs. I appreciate reviews for giving me a filter. There's lots of games out there, so it's good to have something that gives me some sort of guide of what to buy now or wait until it becomes cheap, what to rent or what to steer clear of.