Which reviewer do you trust the most?

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Andrewtheeviscerator

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1. Some of the IGN reviewers mainly Charles Onyett, Anthony Gallegos, and Greg Miller.
2. Polygon
3. Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw
4. The reviewers here at The Escapist
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9001. Jim Sterling
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thesilentman

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Myself. :p

As a serious answer, I trust IGN for the objectively good aspects of a game, Yahtzee for the objectively bad aspects of a game, and my own judgment for the whole opinion on a game. I believe that there is no way to tell for sure if a game is heaven/good/bad/shit as everything has some sort of bias that is too much for me at times.
 

Ljs1121

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I'd say Nerdcubed, as he and I tend to have the exact same opinions on what is cool, fun, and/or good.
 

invadergir

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I used to dislike Angry Joe purely on dislike of presentation. But as I started watching, I realized he was a very good reviewer regardless of persona. His reviews are fair and nuanced.

Jim Sterling just doesn't give a f*** who made it or what his preconceived ideas of the game were. Very helpful.

People liking Yahtzee as a subjective game reviewer. Seriously? He craps on everything, even a game he loved liked just cause 2. And really, you are going to spend your money, based on a guy who says Borderlands 2 and Dead Island are crap for arbitrary reasons. Seriously?
 

saintdane05

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Linkara. He knows a lot, and, while a bit nitpicky, is clearly a fan of comics, and is disappointed by bad ones. You can TELL he wants to like something.
 

xPixelatedx

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1. Jon Tron
2. Jim Sterling
3. Mike (Plinkett)

?. Yahtzee

It's not really a matter of trust. It's only when we get into IGN territory that I have to question if I am outright being bullshitted. I don't neccisairly distrust other reviewers, but the three I listed are ones who I respect the most and have the highest percentage of taste-alignment with. That's very important for a review to matter.
 

Ed130 The Vanguard

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invadergir said:
I used to dislike Angry Joe purely on dislike of presentation. But as I started watching, I realized he was a very good reviewer regardless of persona. His reviews are fair and nuanced.

Jim Sterling just doesn't give a f*** who made it or what his preconceived ideas of the game were. Very helpful.

People liking Yahtzee as a subjective game reviewer. Seriously? He craps on everything, even a game he loved liked just cause 2. And really, you are going to spend your money, based on a guy who says Borderlands 2 and Dead Island are crap for arbitrary reasons. Seriously?
When most reviewers gloss over issues in a single small paragraph when the rest of the page is filled with gushing praise, Yahtzee's Accentuate the Negative can prove quite useful.

Total Biscuit is my 2nd go-to 'reviewer' due to his in-depth look at the PC versions of various titles and it being mostly just him talking over actual gameplay for 20+ minutes.

Generally I avoid professional reviews like the plague.
 

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Angry Joe has a lot of the same opinions about games as me so I tend to trust him the most

Yahtzee isn't afraid to rip things apart though and when it comes to horror games and shooters I trust him.
 

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Consensus, interesting outliers. The two (iirc) 100 of 100 reviews on MetaCritic for M&B: Warband got my attention and I was quite happy I jumped on it.
 

Easton Dark

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Angry Joe is definitely the most reliable. He scores games around what I'd expect. Not that I've ever bought a game based on his or any reviewers score, I'd never do that. You're a bad consumer if you do that.
 

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There really isnt any reviewer I trust out there. People often tell me to watch angry joe but after his incompetant review of Alpha protocol and his constant ear drum blowing shout/screaming I cant stand the guy. I dont consider Yahtzee a reviewer either, hes a critic to tell you whats bad about a game and I dont listen to him to hear whats good about it I listen to him to laugh.

Perhaps the most even handed person Ive watched a "review" on is Totalbiscuit but I have issues with some of his stuff too. Yet I think he may be the best person to get a first impression out of a game. His videos made me get into Blacklight retribution, FTL, and they bleed pixels (along with others) which are some of my favorite games from last year.
 

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- The Game Grumps
--- Arin "Egoraptor" Hanson
--- Jon "JonTron" Jafari
- Adam "The Sess" Sessler
- Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw
- Bob "MovieBob" Chipman (rare though his video game reviewing is)
- The Escapist crew

That's pretty much it. Pretty much in that order

Also, FTR, I'm pretty sure Yahtzee means every word.
Fact is, most people are waaaaaay too forgiving of the flaws that games have and aren't really objective about how fun a game actually is.

I like Assassin's Creed 3, for example, but I can utterly tear it apart because I can actually recognize its flaws.

Yahtzee likes some games I'm not a fan of, and he hates on some games that I find to be pretty great, but that more often than not comes down to him outright saying "this just isn't a type of game I like" than any flaws in the game itself.
i.e. he can recognize when Assassin's Creed games are getting better or worse and why. Whether he personally likes them or not isn't so much an issue.

And, unlike tons and tons of gamers and game reviewers, he doesn't let his opinion get influenced by a game being flashy, or exalted among gamers, or that it's part of a highly respected series.
He will accurately recognize that most Final Fantasy games are shitty and boring as all hell, and not fall into the trap that most people do where they defend it because the series is somehow held as sacred.

And he's not out to make any game companies happy. He's not worried that he might piss someone off that he might have to deal with later.
Other reviewers (like X-Play) will pretty regularly rate a game with the biggest benefit of the doubt they can give it, and then a year or so later (in a random podcast) will finally rant about all their actual gripes and frustrations with the game, because they don't want whatever game company to be pissed at themwhen their game first comes out.
Yahtzee doesn't care. He has no such issues.
 

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Bajo and Hex from Good Game (Australian Gaming Tv-show) tend to line up with my opinions on games most of the time, but they do get it wrong from time to time (Double 10/10 on Mass Effect 3, Double 9.5/10 on Hitman Absolution).

Other than that, while I do look at lots of reviews, I don't immediately trust any reviewer's opinion.
There are some whose opinion I immediately discount because I dislike them, or find that they often give unfair reviews (Moviebob, for his arrogance and tendency to be biased against movies regardless of actual quality, such as his extremely negative review of Amazing Spiderman which was based entirely on the fact that he disliked that they were rebooting the franchise, to the extent that he may as well have not seen the movie and in fact may not have.)
 

RedDeadFred

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None really. I watch reviews to get a decent idea of the game but I prefer to sample a large variety to get the full picture.

Above all else though, I go with what my friends say. We almost always have the same opinion on games and movies.

The only critic who I almost always agree with is Movie Bob but even then, we'll have completely opposite opinions on some films (TDKR and Cloud Atlas).
 

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I typically gauge just how much /v/ hates a video game to how good it is typically there is a certain level of hate which means that the game is good however once it exceeds that point it is typically shit.
 

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Yahtzee first and Jim second. Butts still reviewing? Him too. The reason is that our tastes are similar enough that if they like it, so will I.
 

thejackyl

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People who I know personally.

If I want to know the negative parts of a game I'll look up a ZP review, since he normally tears games apart based on their flaws, not their merits. Though I skipped out of Demons Souls for a while because of Yahtzee, and I kicked myself for it, since I do enjoy the game, a lot.

I have a friend who pretty much hates games that I love, and only plays games I absolutely hate. So I know if he likes it, chances are I can pass up on it. If he hates it, chances are I'll like it. I remember when he was playing a free-to-play beta made by a team of 10 people, he was complaining about slight graphical glitches. (He bought 2 brand new Graphics cards and doesn't understand why a 1: Free to Play, 2: Indie 3: Beta build wouldn't run without any issues.)

Though this is the same guy who's PS3 save data got corrupted shortly after the intro cutscene, and he remedied it by shooting the PS3 with a shotgun, so he's not known for his intelligence. He also overclocked his CPU to the point that it started on fire a few years ago, and blamed it on Intel...

Most of the time, I'll try out a demo and read a few reviews. I won't buy games on release unless I know beforehand that I will enjoy them.
 

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While I don't agree with him all of the time (Example; Kid Icarus: Uprising), if I want truth (and JUSTICE!!!) I go to Jim Sterling. He is so open about almost everything that goes through his mind that it's ridiculous. I mean, just listen to one episode of Podtoid and tell me you can't trust that man when he gets serious.

Although the man doesn't really do reviews (even he admits it with the "Ruminations" tagline), Archengeia [http://www.youtube.com/user/Archengeia] is someone who I feel I can trust just because he is so controlled and goes into large amounts of depth when explaining something he doesn't like.