Luminous

The gaming media. Harsh, demanding, occationally fanboyish. Video games are rated on various scales, depending on various factors. These reviews seek to be objective evaluations of games, but can they be trusted?

As an example, a couple months ago, the game coverage site Gamespot came under heavy fire after an editor was mysteriously let go after giving a game 6.0/10, because the game had tons of advertising dollars for it all over the site, and the publisher pulled out all those advertising funds. This is one of a few areas where one has to wonder how objective these reviewers are.

But this topic is a bit more vague than that. What I'm wondering is if the ever vigilant and informed residents of AO trust, or perhaps follow game reviews as a good reference for a game's quality. Is there a score out of 10 that a game must get before it flies onto your radar? Are these reviewers too critical of a media dependent on simple fun? Do you follow your nose Toocan Sam style instead of reading someone else's opinion on a game? Is there an instance of a game where the media all hated a game, but you thought it was more glorious than the former Roman Empire? Do you trust the opinions of a certain reviewer, but not others? If so, why? All these are but possible questions for discussion in this here thread.

Post away, my evil minions!

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