What do you think of IGN reviews?

A guy on Twitch "you can't spell ignorance without IGN". I'll go with that.

My god... a thread from cmdrshep2183 that might actually have merit?

::looks outside::

No the world is still there so it can't be the end of all things. Phew. Had me worried for a moment.

A really good resource is MetaCritic's reviewer tracker.
www.metacritic.com/browse/games/publication/reviewed

It tells you whether reviewers are being unduly over-favorable or miserable.

IGN, for example, is very erratic. They tend to over-rate against the market, but if they don't like something they give it a kicking, so their average score is below market despite rating more games higher.
If they say a game is 9/10, that means it's probably an 8/10, unless they are sticking the knife in, when it may not be quite that bad.

Sites like Game Informer, Game Rant, track pretty much on the consensus of opinion, (only 1-2 points/100 above) so I like those.

Gamespot rates 6 points/100 lower, so they're a bit miserable. I'm still annoyed that they gave MEA a 6/10 when they game No Mans Sky a 7/10.

Opencritic I find to be a better barometer. Does most of that but also measures the actual reviewers as well. 

So you can compare Stapleton's entire record to each other.

You have to reward effort, comparatively speaking. 

I trust their reviews about as much as the weatherman. IGN reviews are full of bias and ignorance.