Furthermore, reviews in the world of gaming actually mean something. In music and movies it’s all just elitist jabber, offered up by rags like Rolling Stone that just want to be cool more than they want to talk about great art. In the world of gaming, I’ve always found reviews to be pretty accurate. Even at places like IGN.

I already know the next few games I’m purchasing regardless of reviews and ratings.
Don’t care if the people are paid to say what they have to say or not.

If you can test the game or rent it or whatever, then dammit, one must find out for one’s self.

Unless you know they’re gonna kick ass before you play them.

Or if someone’s got mad street cred and rappin skills, you can believe that person you’re told you gotta play somethin, right?

I almost always do research before buying a game. I use to go to the assortment of game review websites, giantbomb, escapists, destructoid and a few others but I’ve realized aside from those paid off wankery reviews they seem just too jaded to give (for lack of a better word) accurate reviews. So I no longer go to those sites (except zero puncutation because them shits is funny). I’m sure others do this too but if i want to know if I should by a game based on my tastes I’ll go to amazon, not to buy but to scour the reviews. Amazon helped my decide to buy fear 3 yesterday and operation flashpoint red river weeks ago and I really enjoy both of those games, even though a lot of sites ripped those games apart. Nah mean?