hey guys, just wondering. where do you guys get your games reviews from? online i mean.

plus, how would those reviews affect your decision in buying the games? coz some reviews (like the GTA4) seems to be exaggerated and almost unreliable. (that game was good, but not a 10 like what IGN gave it IMHO)

and lastly, would a localized gaming review site entice you guys? not in malay of coz, just localized for ppl like us here in malaysia.

i just look on gamespot.

gamespot and ign. Coz sometimes they scored it high while the other scored it low

i usually watch video reviews in gt.tv and ign and then decide if i like what im seeing (instead of relying solely on the rating)

localized stuff is good, but its redundant imho. 'real' reviewers most often got the stuff earlier. and 'local reviewers' that ive seen are usually (funny) translators

however, its definitely useful in closed network, for instance, if i know A personally, our tastes click well, thus i'd have a go with his recommendations

like me myself everymonth buy GAMEPRO & Electronic Gaming Monthly magazine...read reviews from website ign.com ; gamespot...

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Mostly EGM... got tons of EGM mags. If not, i just go to Gamespot, good reviews there.

i just read IGN/Gamespot's reviews and take their opinions lightly.
then wait for GT's reviews and take that more seriously.

Gamerankings for the average review based on collected sites .

gameaxis 4evar!

This post has been edited by thurtin: Jul 28 2008, 03:28 PM

i trust only myself. On the side note, I dont trust console gamer wannabe from PC gamers review.

well since read all imported gaming mags like gamepro , egm , 360 gamers etc....i dont know why am i not into gameaxis mag...something is lacking bout it...

I watch youtube for gameplay videos and then judge it from there.

http://www.giantbomb.com/

i agree on this. nothing beats a console reviewer who reviews his game from a PC version. blasphemy!

i always buy egm and gamepro. i'd buy psm every now and then. for news i think gamespot writes less bias than ign. but yeah, GT reviews are great.

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This post has been edited by technophile: Jul 28 2008, 03:54 PM

Metacritic.com. It's not perfect but it averages out the scores. Meaning that whatever scores a 70% and above usually is quite good. I usually scan through the whole list of reviews because sometimes the ratings are skewed due to the inclusion of small unknown publishers. E.g. some publishers like to give bad reviews to popular games because they don't like a particular console, or just to get their minute of infamy. For example, a game with universally high scores, all 8/10 can get dragged down because someone gives it a 4/10.

A better system would be to include a breakdown of the scores.

For example - average score 8/10

Rated good - list of all the mags that list it as good and their scores.
Rated average - list of all that calls it average and their scores.
Rated poor - as above

gamespot is unreliable and bias. don't bother with them anymore


goto eurogamer





and lowyat.net FTW

well my best case scenario is still GTA4 (i'm playing it every second now). IGN gave it a 10 and i got sucked into the hype having played every GTA in the series (including 1 and 2 for the PC).

when i got the game, it surprised me how that game can manage to get that 10 score. there's a lot of screen tearing, pop ins and bug that simply makes the game crash.

it's a solid 8 to me, not 10.

i dunno how many times i threw the 360 controller in disgust thanks to the pop ins during chase mission.

another game in particular is Halo 3. thank god i didn't bought to the hype. the graphics looks like it was ported from the original xbox with a few shine here and there. the multiplayer sucks (compared to COD4) and the community is simply made up by a lot of weird ppl who take things very seriously.

i seldom trust reviews done by "media" to make purchasing decision

i realize a long time ago that every "media" company out there is funded by game ads. hard for them to be objective when their sole purpose as a business entity is to collect more ads money.

i prefer to research abt the game features in game previews or look for user (real life customer) reviews.

Google the game's name and let's see whatever pops up.

Just look at the cover... cover cun, game cun...haha..

*good old NES days, haha*

thats bahaya wooh....cover always cunn...but games lom tentu...hehehe

that's how i used to suruh my parents beli games in the good old days, haha..

cover always menarik gilerr..to attract gamers

for me Gamespot n IGN...

lol.. yeah in the old days most games with "nice to see" covers are good to play.

you could check out the reviews on g4tv.com (used to be called TechTV). It's official like ign and gamespot but they like to make fun of games they find weird or they don't appreciate especially naruto games in US english. But I recommend you anyhow cause they do show you how buggy a game can be, pros and cons of each game and also it's funny.

they dun like JAPANESE RPGGGGGGGGGGGGGG

yeah, pokemon too

i watch xplay and EGM most of the time.

Not necessarily la...most magazines and even online reviewers although show the game ads of a particular games (some even full page ad)...when the review is out, those games got bad reviews too (but at the same time, the ad is still there).

Yea same ere, Gamespot is a great one-stop resource for all gaming related news.

On the local front, do we have any local sites/publications/blogs which write original reviews for games?

not yet. i'm thinking of starting one.

The most "UNBIASED" games review site is:
http://www.sonydefenseforce.com/

Cool, let me know if you do lah. Maybe I can contribute some reviews of my own, lol.

that's cool man. we can make it as a collective effort.
anyone else interested?

I've started contributing a page on video games in the new men's magazine "Clive" so look out for it. My stuff appears from the 2nd issue onwards.

can i get a free issue?

I can ask. I haven't even received my copy yet! Will probably have to buy it myself!

Just saw PTOM at borders last sunday... selling at rm37.50...

RM37.50? Ouch...kinda expensive.

hmm.. not that i'm against foreign mags, but with that price, i'm sure about half of the content is mostly filled with ads.

Can't be as bad as Hypertune right?...lol. That magazine is 80% advertisements, 10% content, and 10% copy-n-pasted articles.

and ugly too skinny models!!
YUCK!!!

Tell me about it...

Btw, did anyone see the latest Xtremecar magazine? I think the model on the front page is HOT!

not yet. i'll go and have a look at my local mamak newsstand later.