[QUOTE="Master_SONY"][QUOTE="-General_Ram-"] Hype, sales, reviews, and popularity are the 4 magic ingredients to telling you about a game and where it stands. If a game excells in all 4 areas, you know its a amazing game.
Hype is popularity generated by fans before release, signifying the games importance.
Sales is proof of just how popular and preferred a game really is. It shows the amount fo people that would exchange money to play the game.
Reviews, or I should say review average sites like Metacritic and Gamerankings. These are comprised of (mostly) competant reviewers who do this for a living. And above all, the average score takes all reviews into account to almost accuratly give a rough score that displays the games quality.
Popularity is the games lasting appeal online and its buzz in the real world, with internet buzz to a lesser degree.
Now for the fanboy part.
If one game like Gears 2 happens to excell over another game like Resistence 2 in all 4 areas...........what defense do you have to say Resistence 2 is a better game? Your personal opinion that magically becomes fact? No, that job went to the 30+ reviewers that an average was taken from. That more people like it? Sorry the internet is populated by vocal minorities. If the game outsells and generates more buzz/popularity in the real world, well nuff said.
-General_Ram-
Seems to me you're easy to brianwash! Can't make a choice of your own??
who says your own choice is the best route?
Take this example.
A failure/bum buys a self-help book. It wont work out. Why? Because hes being helped by a bum/failure. Point is yourself can be a worst enemy.
SOme people have bad tastes, take cows for example :lol:. They need reviews to push them in the right direction.
I've played games long enough to know when i like one or not...No matter what a review says.
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