I just turned 29. Been playing games since I was 6. Been reading gaming magazines (EGM, Gamepro, Ultra Game Player, Game Informer, Expert Gamer, more I can't think of) and some online media stuff (IGN, Gamespot, Metacritic links, etc.) up until about 5 years ago. Now, I read none of that junk. Apparently I get a Game Informer subscription with my Gamespot Power Up membership, but I don't even kno if it's being sent to the right address, and I don't care. Why do I say this? Because I've been around this hobby enough to know that "game reviewers" are the must useless people there are. They were useful before the internet ballooned and the only way to get coverage of a game was through gaming magazine. Now we have tens of thousands of gamers we can share our opinions with on forums and social media, downloadable demos, beta access, YouTube, Twitch.tv, and so on. Not only are their opinions not relevant anymore, but they're crap. Most of them are not good gamers. They're psuedo-hipsters with an Associates Degree in English, and on top of that their writing is generally bad which is kinda funny actually (say hi, Gies!). More importantly, the environment they review games aren't like the ones most gamers exist in. We don't get games for free, we don't have to play through an entire game with our jobs on the line because of a deadline, and, face it, none of these reviewers possess the skills, if they exist at all, to be able to be an authority on what's good or what isn't. Reviews are all subjective opinions coming from people who aren't as good at playing games as the people they're writing for, and are forced to play these games under such stressful deadlines that playing the game isn't about fun, but turns into a job not unlike cleaning the fyer at McDonald's. Is that who you use to base your opinion on something? Think about it.