What video game reviews do you use when deciding the quality of a game?

[QUOTE="opex07"]

We go by gamespots reviews here at system wars, but outside of SW I usually use several sources to come to an average opinion of the game.

Burning-Sludge

What happens Game Spot doesn't review a game, does it not exist?

They go down to Davy Jones's locker along with Bootstrap Bill, Banjo & Kazooie, and Metroid Prime Trilogy

[QUOTE="lundy86_4"]

Ahhh starting a new topic to try and prove your concept?

Note that I said in System Wars that you can talk about other reviews conversationally, but in terms of addressing amount of AAAA,AAA,AA,A games, flops etc Gamespot reviews are all that counts, in this particular forum.

clone01

Now you say it, this guy does sound a little like lolfaqs.

Explains a lot.

Third option. I usually check several reviews and user reception looking for general flaws.

[QUOTE="opex07"]

We go by gamespots reviews here at system wars, but outside of SW I usually use several sources to come to an average opinion of the game.

Burning-Sludge

What happens Game Spot doesn't review a game, does it not exist?

They exist. They just don't have a score.

[QUOTE="DoomZaW"]

[QUOTE="TREY_FOR_LI4E"]

Really? Because so far only 3 out o 16 voters agree with you.

Yes, when deciding the quality of a game, my point (which you seem to avoid at all circumstances) is that this is SW, and here only the GS scores matters

In your opinion and the opinions of 2 other people so far.

I generally use them as a filter. The Games that are below A I usually stay away from. A & higher I'll check out.

3 steps for me

1. i look at ign, machinima and gameinformer.

2. i ignore gamespot

3. i look everywhere else and decide:)

I try to get as much info as possible. Checking metacritic, and lookin at just about every respected sites score for that particular game. But as for one sites score I rely on most. Probably IGN or Giantbomb.

[QUOTE="TREY_FOR_LI4E"]

[QUOTE="DoomZaW"]

Yes, when deciding the quality of a game, my point (which you seem to avoid at all circumstances) is that this is SW, and here only the GS scores matters

clone01

In your opinion and the opinions of 2 other people so far.

6 votes out of 44 = acceptance in your book?

mmmmmmmmkay.

I look at every big name review score, a couple user reviews, and then I rent. lol

Mine goes this way: 1. Word of friend's mouth 2. Metacritic/Gamerankings 3. The Escapist Zero Punctuation reviews 4. Eurogamer 5. Everything elseRedruM_I

You instantly fail.:|

I never use reviews.

I've only boughten two games based off people's reviews, and I didn't like either. The games were The World Ends With You, and Oblivion IV. Oblivion is okay, it seems to be getting better, but I didn't like The World Ends with you at all.

[QUOTE="RedruM_I"]Mine goes this way: 1. Word of friend's mouth 2. Metacritic/Gamerankings 3. The Escapist Zero Punctuation reviews 4. Eurogamer 5. Everything else789shadow

You instantly fail.:|

Mine goes this way: 1. Word of friend's mouth 2. Metacritic/Gamerankings 3. The Escapist Zero Punctuation reviews 4. Eurogamer 5. Everything elseRedruM_I

You instantly fail.:|

[QUOTE="RedruM_I"]Mine goes this way: 1. Word of friend's mouth 2. Metacritic/Gamerankings 3. The Escapist Zero Punctuation reviews 4. Eurogamer 5. Everything else789shadow

You instantly fail.:|

[QUOTE="clone01"][QUOTE="TREY_FOR_LI4E"]

In your opinion and the opinions of 2 other people so far.

6 votes out of 44 = acceptance in your book?

mmmmmmmmkay.

[QUOTE="clone01"][QUOTE="TREY_FOR_LI4E"]

In your opinion and the opinions of 2 other people so far.

TREY_FOR_LI4E

6 votes out of 44 = acceptance in your book?

mmmmmmmmkay.

btw, how is the bandodging going, lolfaqs? i give you probably another 2-3 weeks.

IGN mostly.. GS seems to be on the ball as long as KevinV is doing it.

reviews carry 'some' weight. that's why they are here. that's why they are paid to write them.

that's why fanboys run rabid arguing over .1 difference between games or console versions.

like i said reviews, the score, the video and the written review. i do go through them. because they do carry some weight, not to mention reading other player reviews (like they do here on Gamespot.)

you can tell when their is a fanboy who purposely goes about giving genuinely good games a 1.0. so you can discard those reviews (if you call em' that.).

personally i follow:

1. Gamespot
2. IGN
3. Gametrailers
4. G4TV.

Those are the videogame sites i follow.

reviews carry 'some' weight. that's why they are here. that's why they are paid to write them.

that's why fanboys run rabid arguing over .1 difference between games or console versions.

like i said reviews, the score, the video and the written review. i do go through them. because they do carry some weight, not to mention reading other player reviews (like they do here on Gamespot.)

you can tell when their is a fanboy who purposely goes about giving genuinely good games a 1.0. so you can discard those reviews (if you call em' that.).

personally i follow:

1. Gamespot
2. IGN
3. Gametrailers
4. G4TV.

Those are the videogame sites i follow.

SaudiFury

This. Just swap number 1 and 3 and it will be perfect.

Critics consensus>One Reviewer. Always.hiphops_savior

Agreed, but I also think there's nothing special about a random user's review and a corporate site's review. A site like gamespot doesn't have any special insight into the quality of a game that a random gamer doesn't have.

I find numerical scores useless, and written text reviews nearly as useless.

With enough research (i.e. videos, previews, etc.) I can tell if I'm going to like a game or not before I buy it. Demos also help a lot too. Without demos, I'm pretty much lost in terms of whether or not I can "know" that I will like the full game. Granted, some catch me by surprise (positively and negatively), but overall, my non-reliance on "professional" review sources works really well. It allows me to make a sound decision based on my own tastes, and not the tastes of others (which are obviously not going to compare to mine).

Though, if I were to choose a review source that gave me some very "accurate" recommendations (in terms of whether or not its worth looking in to), Yahtzee's Zero Punctuation has only failed me once (Painkiller). Otherwise, his "recommendations" have been pretty sound.

Critics consensus>One Reviewer. Always.hiphops_savior

[QUOTE="lundy86_4"]

Ahhh starting a new topic to try and prove your concept?

Note that I said in System Wars that you can talk about other reviews conversationally, but in terms of addressing amount of AAAA,AAA,AA,A games, flops etc Gamespot reviews are all that counts, in this particular forum.

clone01

I decide whatever game I want whenever I feel like it, these reviews are not holy and most of the time they are wrong.

I usually just buy games that I like regardless of what the score is since my mind is already made up by that time. As for games that I don't know about or not interest than I usually look at gametrailer review to see if it something that I might be willing to puts some hours into or not before making my ultimate purchase.

[QUOTE="hiphops_savior"]Critics consensus>One Reviewer. Always.TREY_FOR_LI4E

Agreed, but I also think there's nothing special about a random user's review and a corporate site's review. A site like gamespot doesn't have any special insight into the quality of a game that a random gamer doesn't have.

i just make up my own decisions on which games to purchase.. surely i keep an eye on previews, gameplay vids etc but in the end i always get the games i've been interested in since their announcement(s)..

reviews dont really effect my purchases..

I look at anything and everything then try to decide for myself if i'll like the game or not. For example, I read the IGN review of Prototype and it seemed overly harsh. Then I watched the Gamespot review and it seemed more convincing and made it seem like a game I'd like. The IGN review turned out to be crap. I even think Gamespot could have been MORE generous. I wasn't going to get Demon's Souls due to some reviews harping on about extreme difficulty. Then some other reviews made me think again and the fact that many people here were importing it and loving it caused me to give it a go and I didn't regret it.

I check the average score on Metacritic and GameRankings, then read the review on Eurogamer, then watch the video reviews on IGN and GameTrailers.

I dont really look at reviews as being something to decide my purchase, all games that catches my interest during earlydevelopment i tend to keep track of them looking at videodemonstration of ingame play and previews along the way. if the game scores below what I anticipated i will still play the gameto see what went wrong and form my own opinion on the game. Most gamesI play matches the reiew it deserves. :)

The Sony Defense Force!

/Sarcasm

[QUOTE="TREY_FOR_LI4E"]

[QUOTE="hiphops_savior"]Critics consensus>One Reviewer. Always.hiphops_savior

Agreed, but I also think there's nothing special about a random user's review and a corporate site's review. A site like gamespot doesn't have any special insight into the quality of a game that a random gamer doesn't have.

Except this "professionalism" is tainted by the fact that developers throw lots of money at review sights in the form of advertising dollars and, in some cases, even outright bribes or gifts.