Where do you guys get your game news/reviews?

HeartlessNinny

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I used to use 1up a lot, but that's out...

I also kind of like Destructoid, but they have too much bullshit non-news, and their reviews are often fanboyish and unprofessional.

Thoughts?
 
OrochiEddie

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usually here to be honest. My taste in gaming is rather similar to peoples here.
 
ForeverSublime

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Mix what post 2 and 3 said and that's about right. Plus game conferences.
 
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i read reviews from ~98-05.

i realized that before i read reviews (too young, no internet, didnt buy mags, etc.) i just bought games because i thought i'd like em, or atleast rented first. eventually i realized that that was more fun.

reading reviews causes you to form an opinion right away, for better or worse. you dont get to give a game a fair shake then.

sure some games are shitty, but if no one says so and you enjoy it, who cares?

id say your best bet is to get a gamefly account or similar, and just rent shit.


as far as news goes i just watch hard news on www.screwattack.com . they do opinion pieces and reviews too.


when i really want to see a game i check out gametrailers.com's reviews. the reviews are usually pretty bad but they have lots of nice gameplay footage.
 
Hidden Character

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Yeah, here and my own judgement are pretty good ways to get informed and make decisions on gaming.
 
norton9478

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The problem with most reviews is that they are very uninformative.....

They don't tell me the one thing you want to know.

WILL I LIKE THIS FUCKING GAME?

I personally don't care what the reviewer thinks... I want him to write it from multiple perspectives.
 
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For reviews of niche/hardcore games, I use a combination of insomnia.ac and Play (plus opinions on here and shmups.org). For reviews of everything else, gamerankings and metacritic. For news, I lurk at neogaf.
 
ForeverSublime

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norton9478 said:
The problem with most reviews is that they are very uninformative.....

They don't tell me the one thing you want to know.

WILL I LIKE THIS FUCKING GAME?

I personally don't care what the reviewer thinks... I want him to write it from multiple perspectives.
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Reviews (especially magazines) don't tell me what I want to know, either. "What's the gameplay?"
 
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I usually just rent anything that looks good to me. If I like the game, I will buy it or play it until I am tired of it. I don't know that I trust any one place for reviews but I will look to metacritic for review averages from time to time.
 
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For news I go to Kotaku and watch hard news on Screwattack. I check multiple sources for reviews.
 
HeartlessNinny

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My own instincts tend to be fairly solid too, but I like to follow news and reviews to find out about stuff I would have otherwise missed.

Yakuza 2 comes to mind... That game was fantastic, and as I recall, no one really mentioned it here. I probably never would have heard about it if the 1up Yours guys didn't mention how they loved it.

There've been a lot of others too. What can I say, I'm obsessive about games. ;)

Cool to hear how many people get some (or even a lot) of their games from this very forum though. I didn't realize so many of you did.
 
Lagduf

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I actually use Gamespot.

I find their online reviews to be fairly decent actually in terms of describing the gameplay and perhaps helping me to decide if I want to get the game. Based on their reviews I sort of know whether or not i'll like it, I guess i've read their reviews for too long.

Renting is of course, a must, and often times i'll just outright rent a game if i'm interested in it enough.

Also, NG.com of course is where I get a lot of info on whether i'll like a game.
 
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Lagduf said:
I actually use Gamespot.

I find their online reviews to be fairly decent actually in terms of describing the gameplay and perhaps helping me to decide if I want to get the game. Based on their reviews I sort of know whether or not i'll like it, I guess i've read their reviews for too long.

Renting is of course, a must, and often times i'll just outright rent a game if i'm interested in it enough.

Also, NG.com of course is where I get a lot of info on whether i'll like a game.
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Me too, GameSpot and here, though if I'm really serious about a game --and I want to be safer, I'll also try to grab any other major online reviews I can.
 
GregN

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Here, NEOGAF, Metacritic, Kotaku

What ever happened to Magic Box?
 
cannonball

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here, shmups.com, kotaku.

I actually get most of my news from friends IM'ing me shit they see during the day on whatever sites they read. I'm too lazy.
 
jro

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Ben Croshaw.

Just kidding, though admittedly, if he actually likes a game, odds are it's probably pretty damn good. I think I remember him liking Left 4 Dead and suggesting that MAYBE one other game that came out over the holiday season was worth playing.

I used to like 1UP most of the time, save for their various WTF reviews like the one for Wii Music.

Only other review site I think is consistently worth reading is Eurogamer. Good about not over-hyping shit that doesn't deserve it (kind of the anti-Andrew Reiner), and they also give a ton of description about most games they review.
 
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ng.com and esr which is a "quake only" site so...
 
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