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4/17/2015 11:26:24 PM
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Sometimes Reviews Are Wrong
On occasion, a game comes along that is an honest gem. Everyone loves the idea of it, and then a bad review comes along from one of our favorite YouTube personalities.
Some of us keep an open mind and play it, whilst others will bash it based solely on a review with absolutely no hands on time in the game.
Why? Why bash a game you haven't played if you had an interest in it then a reviewer had an OPINION?
Your opinion may differ.
Not saying to always play games with bad reviews because some deserve it. -I'm looking at you, Duck Dynasty.-
You SHOULD however play the games you're interested in even if someone else isn't liking it.
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I base purchases off of two things: 1: I'll buy a game if I like the look of it regardless of what other people say. Example: The Order 1886. Despite the major critiscisms I still managed to enjoy it. 2: If the scores from critics and actual gamers like us are similar. (Metacritic) Example: Bloodborne. I had never played a Souls game before Bloodborne came out. Originally I wasn't interested, but after seeing gameplay I got intrigued. It then scored 93 from critics and 8.8 from users despite the trolls trying to bring it down with a 0. Because of this and my sudden interest with the gameplay, I jumped in a bought it. Absolutely top quality game. Best decision I have made in a while. So I guess to me reviews kind of matter...but if [b]I[/b] like the look of a game, I'll get it regardless.
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Well DUH. Of course reviews are wrong, you can only truly judge a game based on opinion. Look at Zero Punctuation, 90% of the ceaseless ramblings that spew forth from Yahtzee Croshaw's mouth don't even qualify as "reviewing."
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6 RepliesI play whatever I like, the funny part is when you don't like something and people get mad and start to defend it like they're getting paid it's honestly a little cute.
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1 ReplySometimes? Any major review has quite literally been paid for. Look at any major reviewer site, where do they get their ad revenue? From the very publishers whose games they claim to be critiquing, that's where.
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1 ReplyMost reviewers are brain dead and, being people, are naturally biased. For example, if a game hasn't got CoD in the title then IGN slag it. Like the Jedi Knight that I am, I go with my feelings; I'm rarely wrong (*ahem, Destiny*)
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Scored based reviews and metacritic are the devil. I can't remember if I've ever listened to reviews. I've always felt that games can only be truly jusged and experienced by playing them.
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1 ReplySo what game are you trying to defend here [spoiler]please don't say destiny, just please no[/spoiler]
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Wanna know a game I bought because everyone and their mother praise it. Dragon age inquisition. Wanna know how Lon I played it before I neve touched it again. 2 days.
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I personally don't care for people who review games if I know I will like it I will buy it and if I'm not sure I will rent it on the off chance that I beat it before I take it back.
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Agreed. Play what you want. I usually try to play games that my friends say are awesome, then they get all pissed if I say I didn't like it. (Dark souls/last of us) Everyone has their own opinions, if not everything would have 10/10 or 100 scores. Even if a majority of people love a game does not make it good, it all depends on the individual. I read reviews just to see if it's the type of game I could enjoy, but you really don't know until you try it.
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You played duck dynasty, oh jeeze.
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Alien isolation, the best game of 2014, scored 5.9 out of 10 on ign
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-Too much water ~IGN
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ALL the time. Video game critics are hacks.
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Exactly. Play what you like, accept opinion, and that's that. [insert "he's right you know" image here]
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1 ReplyThe opposite happened to me with shadow of Mordor. Everyone praised it so I bought it and I thought it was awful.
