What Video Game Sites Do You Trust/Recommend?

[Deadpool876]

Ok, wanted to post a thread like this for the longest time. What site do you trust or recommend with game reviews?

 

[TheAQU4M4N]

ok, wanted to post a thread like this for the longest time. What sites do you trust or recommend with game reviews?

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[Raiden]

I visit Gamespot and 1up usually, and also IGN from time to time. Kohaku is another site I found to have some good news recently.

 

[Deadpool876]

^^Have u disagreed with a score they made about a game? If yes, what game is that?

 

[Deadpool876]

Anyone like gamespy? I like their simple scoring system. They score a game out of 5, with a decimal of .5

 

[Why Are You Crouching Spock?]

Eurogamer seems alright.
Kotaku is good for lazy reads.

 

[ProjectPat2280]

The main one i go to is IGN. I tend to like Gamespots reviews better, but i think IGN is quicker with updates and previews etc.

 

[Deadpool876]

I tend to like Gamespots reviews better

Really? I think that site fired a reviewer for giving a particular game a low score. And can you believe they gave Uncharted an 8?

 

[William_C]

IGN is your bread and butter I think. Kotaku if I dont see anything on IGN, or I come here to the Games board.

 

[Isildur´s Heir]

For news, Kotaku.
For reviews, i don´t usually go for one single review, i usually go by rankings. But, if i have to choose one, i´m going with gametrailers or giantbomb (used to be gamespot, but they suck after the all Kane & Lynch incident).

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I look at aggregate reviews on Metacritic. Gamespot is usually the first place I try for previews of games I haven't heard about. GamesRadar is pretty good with news and I find their features to be pretty funny, so I visit them when I'm just bored and want to kill time at a game site.

 

[Brainiac 8]

For news I frequent Gonintendo and Kotaku.

For reviews I visit Gametrailers and sometimes IGN

For humor I visit Screwattack

 

[Deadpool876]

Why not make this a poll...

 

[amazingfantasy15]

Mostly IGN for games I'm leaning towards buying. If I'm iffy on a game I'll go to other places.

 

[ProjectPat2280]

Really? I think that site fired a reviewer for giving a particular game a low score. And can you believe they gave Uncharted an 8?

For the most part i tend to agree with GS's reviewes over IGN, which are the 2 main sites i check. Personally i dont need reviews at all, but sometimes i like to hear what other ppl say(my first stop is always here tho).

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I always think my views match a website's really well, and then I hit that one review that's completely the opposite of what I thought, which leads to my finding faults with a bunch of their other reviews and taking everything with a grain of salt. Personally, I think I just look for different things in a game than a lot of reviewers. Much like movie critics, game critics have to concern themselves with technical aspects and they have their own histories with certain franchises that color their views, so there's always a bit of bias, which contradicts my own biases. I always see complaints that action games get repetitive, for example, but I seem to not mind a little repetition, as I can still enjoy the likes of Streets of Rage or the TMNT arcade game, which are literally nothing but repetition. Now I tend to just look at screenshots and gameplay videos and determine whether I want to try a game for myself, then look at the reviews after I've played it.

 

[Electro UK]

www.thatvideogameblog.com

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Because I write there...

 

[Soapy]

I used to go to Gamespot all the time for pretty much anything and everything game related, but after "Gerstmanngate" they lost what little credability they still had by that point. But now, like most it seems, I go to Kotaku for news. Although I find myself slowly gravitating towards Destructoid nowadays. I generally don't read reviews or even previews very often anymore. Mostly because, like TheCorpulent1, what I look for in a game is typically pretty different than what the people reviewing it are looking for. A lot of reviews and such are also entirely too long. I don't need five or sometimes even ten page reviews. It's ridiculous. Just tell me what a game does right and what it does wrong and what seperates it from the pack. Besides, it doesn't help that most reviews on the bigger sites are little more than paid advertisements a lot of the time.

Anyway, I get a lot more out of podcasts now than I ever got of written reviews and previews before. Hearing a small group of people sitting around a table discussing, debating, and sometimes even arguing about a game gives me a much better sense of what's good, what's bad, what's unique, and more importantly; What I would like about the game in question.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Yeah, to be honest, I put more stock in the reviews I get from X-Play's podcasts than I do in any online ones, and even then, I've disagreed vehemently with X-Play's reviews a few times.

 

[Spidey-Bat]

I go to GameTrailers and IGN. I used to go to GameSpot but don't anymore.

 

[William_C]

Yo, I forgot about some GameTrailers. I always go there for trailers, and video reviews.

 

[Havok83]

I go to IGN. 90% of the time, their reviews tend to conform to how I actually feel about the game

I dont go to Gamespot much bc Ive always hated the design. I think its a poorly layed out site and has needed a more user friendly revamp for years

 

[hippie_hunter]

I go to N4G since they pretty much put up everything that Kotaku, IGN, etc. put up, but damn the posters on that site are some of the stupidest people on the Internet.

 

[ProjectPat2280]

I go to N4G since they pretty much put up everything that Kotaku, IGN, etc. put up, but damn the posters on that site are some of the stupidest people on the Internet.

Hahaha, i feel the same way.

 

[Tron Bonne]

Kotaku and 1UP for news. I use to go to GameSpot for reviews and they were the ones who I held very high, then they gave Ratchet & Clank Future a 7.5/10 and the big reason was 'Too much variety'. TOO ****ING MUCH VARIETY! That pretty much killed them for me, I glance at their reviews but more often then not I see a score and shake my head.

I look at a lot of reviews, but I don't take them much to heart anymore. I go to the community and see what the players are saying and metacritic to see what the critic community is saying. If they mesh I usually take that a little more serious, if they don't I do research on my own