Do you TRUST Gamespot REVIEWS?

GAMESPOT is spot on with PS 4 reviews.Latest being Horizon Zero Dawn.

BTW wrong board OP ?

They do seem to give higher scores to big budget games, and are very kind to sony.

I generally don't read or watch reviews from any of the gaming sites, there is a select list of you tubers who match my tastes I use for reviews.

I stopped reading or trusting GS reviews a long long time ago

Nope.

Not really.

I always assumed the "writers" at gamespot simply waited until IGN's were released, and they copied and pasted, switching certain terminology and jargon around. You're telling me I'm wrong? Anyone?

Nope, but I'm guessing this thread is the result of Sony's latest exclusive! lol

I don't really "trust" any review, since my personal opinion usually differs a lot from the popular opinion. For example I really enjoy Warriors games. That said, I do think that GS usually overrates Sony exclusives.

All the experienced writers jumped ship (or were let go). Years ago, quite a few of the reviewers enjoyed interacting with the community. GS has been a different site for a while now though so I can't say I routinely pay mind to their reviews.

Don't i know you from somewhere? :P

They were all about 360 now it's PS4 maybe go easy on Nintendo. There's always a couple games with a biased review but they're usually in the right range.

no, Gamespot reviews came and raped my dog and stole my mom and sold her into slavery!

yes of course I "trust" Gamespot reviews, but you need to remember that in the end, despite being professionally done, they are still the opinion of a person and need to be taken in context. A Gamespot 6/10 might be a 7/10 or even an 8/10 to you because you are more forgiving to certain things, or vice versa.

Yeah, the quality has gone down. Is Kevin Van Ord still guest reviewing or was that just for a little bit after he left? That was nice to see him popping in on occasion after he left, like "oh hey someone capable showed up!"

What's to trust? I don't even read them anymore.

GS ain't what it used to be, sadly. There not any content that I really even care about anymore. I just come to the forum to kill time, so that's still a bit entertaining.

Trust Gamespot? Hmm, can´t say that i do. But on the other hand i do not distrust them or any other critic for that matter.

Only person i trust to tell me if i should buy or not is myself.

@thehig1:

I trust my reviews.

I agreed with your life is strange, rise of the tomb raider & Mass Effect 2 reviews.

Yes I do. Of course that doesn't mean that I won't differently about some games one way or the other from time to time.

Besides the fact that they seem to favour Sony games, I trust them as much as any other site...

if they confirm my biases towards games i like on a system i own i trust them almost implicitly. otherwise i see the reviewers as corporate shills who have clearly been paid off

I miss McShea and Caroline, I don't care what the whiners say they were some of the best GS had. Sadly now I only come to GS out of habit and don't have a replacement Sony news source (got my nintendo news covered at least thanks to Player Essense)

Nope. Not since the PC reviewers were given their walking papers by Ziff Davis. Of course, I'm referring to the time Computer Gaming World magazine was acquired by Ziff Davis. I recall CGW reviewers doing the PC reviews for Gamespot during the early years (my first account here was back in the late 90's) soon after the Internet itself went mainstream.

@killered3: Same here. Need to write more reviews myself but motivation is sometimes lacking.

You post your reviews to your own site or just on here?

@suicidesn0wman:

Here, mostly. I used to post on Gamefaqs too but I lost the password for that account. I need to start reviewing again!

I take them all as opinions, haven't close felt the same way about games as they do. But I'm not judgemental enough to think my taste is law_

Moved to GD from OT since this is game related.

Yes, I do, but I guess that really depends on what you mean by trust because I think that some people have unrealistic expectations from reviews. A video game review is always, at its core, an opinion. It's an opinion of how much enjoyment someone might get from a game based on the reviewer's own experiences, preferences, biases, and what they think others might enjoy. If you expect any site or reviewer to always share your opinion about the quality of something that is designed to evoke an emotional response, then you are probably never going to find that because the only person who is going to agree with you 100% of the time is you.

A review is a tool that you use to make your own decision, not an instruction on what decision to make. I like the GS reviews because even though I may not agree with them every time, they are sufficiently informative that I feel like I get enough info to determine whether or not I'm likely to agree with the reviewer on a given game. However, you should always use multiple sources of information (additional reviews, Youtube videos, game demos, anecdotal evidence from like minded friends, etc) if you want to make sure that every game you purchase is going to be one that you like.

-Byshop

I don't trust reviews as a whole, I like to form my own opinions of games :D

Good advice, right there.

-Byshop

When it comes to reviews, I always like to watch a reviewer from youtubers who are always independent free agents and when it comes to youtubers, they show off some gameplays that I can see what there talking about but I don't trust them, I like to get as much data as I can and as for Gamespot itself, I just take there reviews as opinions and not a facts.

Not always

I don't "trust" any review from any publication with an advertisement contract in place between them and the publisher of the same game they are reviewing.

I think there reviews are legit, but everything else feels like a bad advertisement, the front page is quite abysmal now.

ban dodgers no getty attention, sorry