How much do review scores influence your spending decisions?

[Generic-Giant-Spider]

The only time I ever paid heed to review scores was back before the Internet blew up and the only thing you had to go on was how awesome the box art was and how cool the back of the box hype up features sounded.

But pretty much never, I tend to know what I like and what I can appreciate in a game that will see me play it through to completion. RPGs are what I grew up with since I didn't have much money and would rather buy games that I knew would last me a long time to complete so it's my most refined area of knowing what I'm looking for going in.

These days especially, review scores are obsolete in my eyes. If I'm curious on how a game looks, I'll load up a few minutes of gameplay on YouTube. Outside of that I'm pretty much my own filter.

 

[Goi~Yaas~Dinn]

Zero percent. I look at gameplay videos online to see what the actual game it like to determine if I would consider it high enough quality to play.

This right here. Though, the last time I bought a new game was in the DS era.

 

[Darth Canoli]

I only buy games with good reviews (>70%)

I used to do that when i was reading the TILT magazine, back in the days when journalists were worth their wages and wrote informative and relevant reviews, that time is gone.

 

[Goi~Yaas~Dinn]

I only buy games with good reviews (>70%)

I used to do that when i was reading the TILT magazine, back in the days when journalists were worth their wages and wrote informative and relevant reviews, that time is gone.

What era was that?

 

[Darth Canoli]

Before you were born, probably, also, TILT magazine wasn't written in english.

 

[Goi~Yaas~Dinn]

Before you were born, probably, also, TILT magazine wasn't written in english.

I didn't realize there were many 30-somethings on the Codex. Being written in a foreign market could definitely make a difference, though. Not very familiar with non-US publications.

 

[Humanophage]

Why do people mention reviews from journalists? They are a completely different beast from steam reviews, and their value is fairly dubious even if the journalist is earnest and has a solid taste, which is increasingly rare and has always been inconsistent. Steam ratings are simply the percentage of regular users who did not bother downvoting a game. It is hard to imagine some person with poor taste going out of their way to downvote something like Age of Decadence or Underrail, and at any rate you can instantly see if that is the case if you look at their arguments. Just look at the majority of AoD downvotes; it's comical.

 

[Gerrard]

I only check reviews to see if a game isn't a broken piece of shit.

 

[Darth Canoli]

It is hard to imagine some person with poor taste going out of their way to downvote something

I partially agree but there is quite a lot of people who would play a game they think they will enjoy except they don't.
Why ? Many reasons, obviously but i'd blame the poor tags managements, some players might think they're playing cRPG while playing some action games and when they're face with a real TB cRPG, they're helpless and leave a bad review.

Well, that's one scenario but i believe the arguments or absence of them in a GOG steam review are interesting, specially in the bad ones, it's usually easy to say which ones are relevant.