How much stake do you put into reviews?

No, any big company releases always have paid reviews. The bigger the company, the more reviewers are bought for higher the price.

You really buy that? That’s some Alex Jones level shit. No one funneling money in exchange for good reviews, they would get exposed so quick

It's all paid reviews. All of it. Awards are also bullshit. It's just marketing.

A game is only reliably any good if 10 years later when noone is shilling for it it is still recommended. The internet is just lies upon lies these days. The world is fucked.

I’ll probably read the easy allies review since the dude that’s doing it is a genuine of the first one, but most I won’t

It depends on whether or not I already hate the game

you must be the marketer who made the thread.

how much money do you make? do you work in house for publisher or are you a tertiary firm? do you honestly believe that we'd believe anything that comes out these companies? do you not know that you have been exposed several times in the past but the only people that can hold you accountable is you, so it gets brushed under the rug?

Almost none. Game “journalists” are hacks who barely play video games and act more as an extension of the game publisher’s advertising department. The quality of Random fans/enthusiasts who rate games varies too widely due to personal taste and biases to be useful. It’s easier to just watch a bit of gameplay and decide for myself if it looks like something worth playing.

I'll play what interests me. I don't put any stakes in reviews. They're just numbers for sheep to bleat over.

None and I have no fucking idea why anyone on this site even looks at reviews any more. There was this whole thing a few years back, you might have heard of it. Goobergeiger or something like that?

games journalism is an extended arm of PR for the video game industry. It's aimed at kids and consumerist normalfags. You're participating in a literal advertisement.
There's loads of great interviews and pieces written by people who left that industry, detailing how they get around it and how shitty it is.
Publishers have a giant hard on for content creators and streamers now because they figured out it's far easier, cheaper and more effective.

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Nope. Reminder this game has a 94 on metacritic.

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>How much stake do you put into reviews?
None now that youtube and the internet in general allows you to see actual gameplay so you can tell immediately how full of shit reviewers are.

>critics
Pretty much won't give a game below a 7 (almost broken games like ME:andromeda average like 70 on metacritic), likely won't even fully finish the game either. Most of the time the score is likely given out to match the public's opinion, they likely inflate them too to make sure they get early copies.
>users
Lots of the reviews are so biased or poorly done they don't matter. There's lots of reviewbombs for the slightest controversy, console exclusives, and fanbase wars. Regardless of how good TLOU2 is people will bomb it due to what the story ended up being.

I've been reading game reviews for 30 years now, so none.

The last time i ever trusted reviews was Gamespot during the PS2 era
i don't know who was reviewing there back then but they hit every single score like a fucking sniper
i had a rental store so i played almost every PS2 game and my ratings and critics almost always mirrored those of Gamespot, even more so than other sites, that still had decent reviews and scores
then the PS3 came out and i was to much of a poorfag to afford the console so i stopped reading reviews
later i heard about the Kane & Lynch shitstorm and never ever trusted review sites again
seeing the infamous IGN God Hand review just steeled my resolve
KEK

I sold my PS4 ages ago

>How much stake do you put into reviews?
None whatsoever
Professional reviewers have been utter trash for as long as I can remember

botherer.org/2012/10/24/games-journalists-and-the-perception-of-corruption/
keep in mind, this system has been "whistleblown" every couple of years since the early 90's by people who've left the industry and bothered to talk about it. You can find multiple interviews and articles discussing the exact same thing. Nobody cares about it.

>Regardless of how good ____ is people will bomb it due to ____
this goes both ways though. review scores are just idiots screeching and lobbying 0's and 10's and every game. they metric itself is entirely unreliable. the only value they hold is actually scrolling through them and reading them individually, scouring for the rare even-headed review. Which at that point you're wasting a colossal amount of your time for very little useful information.

I made a lot of fucking typos there.

Thanks for the survey Naughty Dog, the answer is no, i watch gameplay videos and deside if i like what i see, always after the game lunched, i don't preorder anything, that's just paying for disapointment

what a joke it was the worst Bioshock by far
and even when judged only by its merits rather than comparing to previous entries in the series, it's still a really bad game
a 5/10 would be generous

None. I just need to see a few seconds of gameplay to know if I'll like a game or not.Though that's barring any stupid story decisions like TLOU2.

Little to none. I know what kind if games I like and I have an eye for marketing bullshit.

>reading and caring about reviews

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