Gamespot reviews DO have an effect on how you judge a game after youv'e playedit

A perfect example of this is, in my opinion, True crim NYC.

I never read a review for it, got it for christmas and loved it...almost as good as GTA 3 in my opinion.

But i can guarantee if i had seen the 4.5 score gamespot gave it, then played it, i wouldnt have liked it.

Sure they do, but not for all games. I admit I might have looked a bit worse onRed Steel than I should, but for most games the reviews don't matter.

If reviews started to affect me a lot, I would stop watching reviews.

But i can guarantee if i had seen the 4.5 score gamespot gave it, then played it, i wouldnt have liked it.

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Sadly, that makes you a follower. Unfortunately, a lot of people here seem to be the same way. A lot of people here claim to only play AAA games. Well, AAA status is an opinion, which should be SOLELY YOURS. People here go and blindly follow these review numbers and are playing games they don't enjoy.

Why is it that there's always a thread about how Halo isn't that good, or Metal gear isn't that good? Because people go and buy the game because its supposed to be good and receives high marks, but turned out not to be enjoyable to certain people. And that's ok. Like someone earlier said, you really have to come up with your own criteria for what makes a game fun for YOU.

I know I might be alone here but I read reviews after I have bought and played the game. I know it sounds backwards but after playing games for a good length of time, I have a pretty good idea of what I like. I do like to read reviews to see if the reviewer and I have common ground for what we both think of the game.

I get a little humor out of it when I find that the reviewer and I have different perspectives on a game. It just reinforces the thought that people will see a game differently and that the best judge of whether or not a game is good or bad to you is yourself.

No, you would have liked it, but you wouldn't admit it. The faults of the game are there, how much they affect you, that's subjective. That's why every gamer must develop his/her own criteria and stick to them. Reviews are just a helpful source of info, if you personally think you'll like a game, you just have to give it a shot.nopalversion

well put sir.

i think reviews just affect the way you think when you go out to buy a game, instead of seeing if you bought a well rated game because your already past the point of no return unless you return it which i guess it's really just past the point of deciding to buy it and before the point of deciding whether to keep it or not

That's completely true! I once really loved "Simpsons: Hit & Run"... then I read the review Official Playstation 2Magazine UK gave it, with a dissapointing 5/10 score. It changed my opinion permanently.chrisx999

So if you had read one of the other positive reviews you'd still like it?