Previews are completely useless.

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#1 Gamer556
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Really, how often do you see an honest preview that calls out a bad game for what it is? Most previews are overwhelmingly positive, and I know for a fact that most of the games they have to play are complete garbage. Previewers know that if they give a game some bad hype, they're probably not going to get invited back to play it again. Hence, they sugar coat their previewers and leave the readers with a flase sense of confidence. These previews are supposed to help gamers make buying decisions, not help publishers sell games.

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#2 Slyprince
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does that mean we should only believe the negative ones?
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#3 lukie_pie
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ya they are pretty dumb, but when they diss a game you know its gonna be bad
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#4 CRUSHER88
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Previews don't help you decide which game to buy. Reviews do that. Priviews do a good job at creating hype.
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#5 qead
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Agreed. Fuel for the hype fire is all they are
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#6 carljohnson3456
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I dunno, Too Human got some pretty "meh" previews before it came out.

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#7 DJCUEBALL
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I agree with the title. Previews are useless.
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#8 WAIW
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Previews, especially from large sources (I'm looking at you, IGN) are almost never negative. No use in reading them for the author's opiinion but facts and updates on the game.

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#9 Litchie
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If you think previews are there only for telling people if the game seems good or not, then yes, they're useless. I, however, read previews to get new information about games.
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#10 final_fortress
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if they think a game is bad, why would they want to be invited back to play it? your logic is flawed tc
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#11 nervmeister
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I dunno, Too Human got some pretty "meh" previews before it came out.

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That was a rare fluke.
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#12 organic_machine
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Far from useless. They are useless only when you are looking for quality of the games. But if you are looking for content and release dates and news and interviews, then previews are great. This thread, however, is quite useless.
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#13 strudel420
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Yeah it seems like they're pretty much not allowed to hate on a game before its out. Sometimes though if you read between the lines you get hints.
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#14 rcignoni
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When judging the outcome of the game,yes.

When looking at the content of a game, no.

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#15 nervmeister
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What were most of the previews like for Turok?