Form your own review, wait what?

There are refund so why not,  those with  fiber optic 50/100 Mbit/s and can download 40-50 GB within 1-2 hours.

 

Whilst I have learned to take reviews with a large grain of salt, especially with big budget titles, they cannot be offhandedly disregarded. For me personally it's about finding reviewers whose opinions generally align with your own and that you trust have the guts to criticise a game with a big publisher backing it. 

Sometimes critics are too harsh on a game. Sometimes they buy into the hype. But there's always truth to be found in the opinions of others and if there's a consensus on certain drawbacks across the board, then it's more probable it's true. Blindly buying a game because you want it to be good, serves no-one but the publisher.

Because I trust my own opinion of what I'll enjoy over that of others.

Partly because everyone is different. Take for example the facial animations. People write about this one problem like it will single handledly destroy the game. Most reviews mention it being bad. I played for 10 hours this weekend and it bothered me maybe once or twice. Do I see it being an issue for me? No. Now for some people it really might be important enough that it does really really bother them.

There is just really no way to know yourself until you try it and see. Which I think is why people say try it and see.

I've never been a fan of reviews. I can determine for myself whether I like a game or not, thanks. Letting someone else determine whether I should see a movie, read a book or play a game is asinine. In this case, the game has a refund policy so there's even less incentive to let a reviewer decide what I will/will not play.

mmm, honest question, am i old? have things changed?

in my day if you bought a game, brought it home, and opened it.. once it was opened "it belonged to you", because gaming companies fought so hard for those 'contracts' it's like.. you are buying the rights to that copy of the game.

If I go to the store and buy a dozen eggs, come home and six are broke through no fault of mine, I can go to back to the store and get a full refund or another good dozen eggs, the store cannot take the six good eggs and put them in another carton because I took them home with me, they throw them out. guess who eats the bill? It's not the store, it is the farmer. and the farmer then receives subsidies from the government i.e. taxpayers.

gaming companies dont work this way, as far as I know, once you buy it "it's yours" the store might take it back at half price or at $5, if you try to do a trade in for another "used game".

or i'm just old and everythings digital and it's fine lol.

edit: not to say anything else about the thread. "form own opinion" enough said?

God forbid somebody form their own opinions instead of having other people think for them

Right, and we can be there saying, "Told'ja the game sucked" when they come and say, "The game sucks!"

It means that you form your own opinion and give your own review after playing the game and not depending upon other's reviews, it also means to think for yourself and not only depend upon reviews. You will decide if you will like a game/movie/book etc and not let others decided through reviews or not if you will like something, no one will tell me if I will like something or not. I form my own opinion on something and I will decide if I like something or not, I do not need to be led by other people telling me that I will not like something or I will like something

Because I'm not a sheep like the people who let others dictate what they should think about something. I couldn't care less about what is "in" to think. I don't let political commentators tell me what to think about taxes, so why would I allow a reviewer tell me what to think about a simple game? I have a brain, which I am quite sure I got in order to use for myself. Maybe this is a concept which is too hard for some to grasp. 

Yes, I agree. There's a lot of things to like about the game in general, at least, from what I've seen. It's definitely better than ME3 for me. Aside from the CC and shitty animations, the game doesn't seem to suck at all. Maybe I'm missing something?

Could it be that I set my expectations so low that I'm pleasantly surprised?