Have you ever purchased / not purchased a game and/or system because of reviews?

I have tons of times. I check the Metascore on every game I buy, and sometimes it sways my decision on whether or not to buy a game and/or console for said games.

A few examples pulled from this generation would be my decision to not buy Haze, decision to buy a Wii because of Super Mario Galaxy reviews, and quite a few others. Overall, I find reviews to be an extremely useful tool when helping me decide on which games and/or consoles I should buy, and I end up being happy with my purchases 99% of the time, whereas I would end up buying a lot of games I didn't like and would regret buying if I didn't have access to reviews.

I purchased Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing because of reviews. As bad as it was, that made it awesome.

Only games which I was on the fence about. The reviews swayed me either for or against depending on score.

no the only thing that will maybe turn me away from a game are the in game videos.

one person worthless rating like here on gamespot wont decide for me.

[QUOTE="Fizzman"]

Only games which I was on the fence about. The reviews swayed me either for or against depending on score.

AncientDozer

Okami

I had no idea it existed until the review was on the home page here back when it was released. After seeing a 9 and watching most of the videos I was like "**** yeah I need this!:D".:P It is probably one of my favorite games ever.:)

Reviews are guides for casual gamers and those that don't buy/can't afford to buy many games.

I purchased the Prince of Persia 2008 reboot based off of the early scores coming in (namely IGN). After learning that lesson, I now just read reviews for fun.

I had no clue about inFamous until I saw the reviews full of praise, decided to take a shot. One of the best chances I took this gen.FIipMode

I too did the same, man what a terrible move it was.:cry: I bought it for $25, but managed to sell it for $30, I made a profit!:D

Duke Nukem Forever

Not really. If I'm unsure about a game, I'll doextensive research (read what's good and bad about a game) from multiple sources. (Reveiwers and users.) I usually focus on the negative reveiws, actually, that way I'll know what's wrong with a game. However, if I'm interested in a game, I will almost always buy it, unless most reveiws are overwhelmingly negative. And even then I may not let it affect me. (I bought Force Unleashed on Wii, and had an absolute blast with it.)

Okami

I had no idea it existed until the review was on the home page here back when it was released. After seeing a 9 and watching most of the videos I was like "**** yeah I need this!:D".:P It is probably one of my favorite games ever.:)

Vyse_Legends

[QUOTE="Fizzman"]

Only games which I was on the fence about. The reviews swayed me either for or against depending on score.

AncientDozer

[QUOTE="Vyse_Legends"]

Okami

I had no idea it existed until the review was on the home page here back when it was released. After seeing a 9 and watching most of the videos I was like "**** yeah I need this!:D".:P It is probably one of my favorite games ever.:)

funsohng

You also missed some awesome old man breakdancingthen.:lol:

[QUOTE="funsohng"][QUOTE="Vyse_Legends"]

Okami

I had no idea it existed until the review was on the home page here back when it was released. After seeing a 9 and watching most of the videos I was like "**** yeah I need this!:D".:P It is probably one of my favorite games ever.:)

Vyse_Legends

You also missed some awesome old man breakdancingthen.:lol:

[QUOTE="Vyse_Legends"]

[QUOTE="funsohng"]I don't remember why I bought that game, but I stopped it half way. I want to play it again, but I forgot where I am in the story, and I don't wanna start again because I don't want to play that "draw-circles-in-quick-time-events" thing which took me probably around 2 hours. That is actually the only thing I remember in that game. God that was horrible.funsohng

You also missed some awesome old man breakdancingthen.:lol:

The only problem I had with it was that it is a REALLY easy game.:(

[QUOTE="FIipMode"]I had no clue about inFamous until I saw the reviews full of praise, decided to take a shot. One of the best chances I took this gen.sanim02

I too did the same, man what a terrible move it was.:cry: I bought it for $25, but managed to sell it for $30, I made a profit!:D

Your....starting to give me chest pains :-|

I was unsure about Killzone 2, but then reviews came out saying it was an amazing FPS. So I bought it, and it ended up being not so good.

[QUOTE="sanim02"]

[QUOTE="FIipMode"]I had no clue about inFamous until I saw the reviews full of praise, decided to take a shot. One of the best chances I took this gen.FIipMode

I too did the same, man what a terrible move it was.:cry: I bought it for $25, but managed to sell it for $30, I made a profit!:D

Your....starting to give me chest pains :-|

I wonder how polar opposites ever became friends.:P

Yup. Then abot 2 years ago I learned to think for myself and find better sources of information and never did that again.

[QUOTE="Fizzman"]

Only games which I was on the fence about. The reviews swayed me either for or against depending on score.

AncientDozer

Agreed. If I really like how a game looks I'll get it no matter what kind of scores it gets.

all the time. Games are $$$. I need a little bit of a gurrente.

[QUOTE="FIipMode"]

[QUOTE="sanim02"]

I too did the same, man what a terrible move it was.:cry: I bought it for $25, but managed to sell it for $30, I made a profit!:D

sanim02

Your....starting to give me chest pains :-|

I wonder how polar opposites ever became friends.:P

I don't go by review scores but yes I have skipped on buying a game because of the general tone of them. If 10 or 15 reviews out of 20 all say the game is buggy, broken and unfinished I will be skipping that title. Most reviews are just someone slamming what they don't like (i.e an FPS player reviewing an RTS) or praising what they do like (an RPG player playing an RPG) so its hard to really use them on score alone.

If Zero Punctuation hates it il rent it, if he loves it il buy it, and if he REALLY hates it i wont look at it. So far thats how it seems im buying my games for awile now.

Yes, Puzzle Quest Galactrix is a bug fest, so I'm staying away from that one even though it would go nice with the other two in my collection. Even without a review, I could tell Lunar Dragon Song was horrible, so I decided to stay away from it. Doesn't have the spirit of the original series and looks butt ugly.

I mostly read to find out what performance problems or game-breaking bugs the game might have. Otherwise, I make my own decision based on gameplay videos. Just don't want choppy, crappy, and/or slow framerates (a real serious problem this gen). That's mainly all I look for in a review. The game needs to play well. No choppy, hacked-together bugfest games please.

Unfortunately, I don't have enough money for every game I want, nor do I have the time. So, I read the reviews to see what the game has to offer.

nope never, seriously not even once, i only look at reviews to see new stuff about a game

Sure, take the Wii remake of Goldeneye for example. I was hyped beyond belief for it. I preordered the version that came with the gold controller. As the day of release approached I panicked and searched all over the internet for leaked reviews. I couldn't find any so I panicked more. The day it released I was at school. I googled reviews for it that morning and the only one up was from IGN. They gave it a 9. I was overjoyed and went and picked it up after school. Did it deserve a 9? No. Did it deserve a 6? No. More like an 8. Do I regret purchasing it, only slightly. I enjoy the single player much more than Black ops, and i've made good use of the controller playing Black ops.

By score I mean the review. Obviously a good game will get a good score and a bad game will get a bad score. You guys try way too hard to discredit people.

ywp. Many times. When Mario Sports came out, I thought about buying it until I saw the review. Then I was like, no way.

[QUOTE="funsohng"][QUOTE="AncientDozer"]This, ladies and gentleman, is what reviews are for. This man understood their purpose.AncientDozer

Invisible Wars, it was graded 8.0 while Deus Ex was graded 8.2. So naturally I thought it'd be pretty much the same game.

The horror...the pain...why Warren Spector... why?

From this gen, I purchased NieR based on the reviews from GameCritics - I trust these guys the most. Three writers from this site praised the game, and it was only $30 at that time, so why not I thought. It's a good game, imo, but not as amazing as they put it. Don't regret purchasing it though.

Anyways, I normally just rent games that interest me before deciding on buying them or not; however, I won't bother renting those with less than a 60 on Metacritic. I mostly buy games from series that I love or when there's a good deal going on.

Never. And I never will. ;)

If I had never used GameSpot then I would proably never heard of many great titles.