Quote:
Originally Posted by PepsiFree
The secret, as it always has been, is to just stop giving a #### about reviews. Read them to get a sense of the game if you want, but the number ratings are meaningless no matter who they come from, or how positive or negative they are.
|
My problem is that I only have time to play a few games each year, so I sort of rely on the reviews to give me a sense of which ones are the "essential" titles to go for. Granted, I don't take the numerical assignments as gospel, but if I didn't rely on reviews I would never have played Nier Automata, for example, or Horizon.
It's fine if they give 10s and 9s to games that should actually be 8.5s if they're still really good. The issue is if they're giving out 9s to a game that should actually be a 5 - or vice versa - because of external factors. I need to be able to trust the reviews
somewhat for my purposes.