Quote: "Let’s paint a mental picture, real quick. You’re looking forward to buying a game this month; it could be a specific title or anything that sparks your interest. Maybe you’ve been awaiting a certain game’s release, or maybe you just went with one at random from three possible options. Either way, the release date approaches and you head online but there is nary a review to be found. Not the big sites nor the small sites nor even Metacritic have critic reviews, and there are just a few user reviews on the latter, all of which seem overwhelmingly positive.
Now, allow me to break this picture for a second to say the following: This is the point where you ought to start to panic. "
Too many games aren't given a second shot. We at VGU choose which games we would love to see receive a sequel.
The Saboteur - criminally underrated and a fantastic mechanic of bringing colour back to Nazi-occupied Paris.
The article lists Bulletstorm, Sleeping Dogs, and Aliens: Colonial Marines.
Player 2 takes some quiet time to look back at some of the most hyped failures of the past 10 years.
Can't argue with any of those really, but I would add Resident Evil Operation Racoon City and Metal Gear Survive to that list. Both terrible games from good franchises.
Bulletstorm, I actually liked the gameplay but the atrocious writing and characters made me despise the game by the end of it.
Thanks to a bustling mod community on Steam, Gearbox's Aliens: Colonial Marines actually has a stellar multiplayer experience to offer these days.
Reviewers are nothing but opinionated douchebags who claim to be experts on playing video games.
That sort of just speaks for itself. Let footage of the game speak for itself.
A good one of recent times is the "release" of Orion: Dino Horde.
My friend grabbed it day one believing it, essentially, another Primal Carnage.
Not quite. He sure as hell wasn't aware of the history of the game, prior to its re-release under a different name. Exactly what the developers were hoping for.
Always know what you are buying.
Questionable REVIEWERS Practices And Why You Should Always LISTEN TO GAMERS.
Questionable GAMER BANDWAGONING Practices And Why You Should Always PLAY THE GAMES YOURSELF.
Questionable N4G COMMENTS And Why You Should Always STOP WASTING YOUR TIME.
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totally agreed... ever since that copy and paste garbage MW3 got a 9 from IGN, and they proceed to post ANY AND EVERY CoD related article (no matter how small and useless it is), its pretty obvious these reviewers have their own agendas.. Hell, they've already started to play their hand in the BF vs CoD discussion and are trying to downtalk BF without knowing anything about how the game plays.... nothing worst then a fanboy reviewer pretending to be objective..
Reviews are often times misleading. Dead Island for example. A lot of reviewers gave it a bad score but I am loving it. I always trust my instinct and it has yet to fail me.