Dumb Reviewers

[Elite Lord Sigma]

Have you ever run into a review on a product, and wonder, "Who was stupid enough to approve this piece of crap?" I have an example of such a review below:

Rating: 1 star
Comment: random gibberish

I mean, what kind of a review is that? The reviewer should be shot a couple times. I highly doubt the reviewer even watched the movie, and probably rated it based simply because it was Pokemon. This same user has a bunch of equally crappy reviews. I wonder why in blazes MSN lets people post this crap.

Have you ever seen reviews like this one?

[Rengori]

Search any front page Newgrounds flash reviews on rating and go to the very last page.

[boris no no]

I ignore all reviewers. I have a different taste in things, maybe agree with them maybe not. But I don't care of their opinion as usually its some fat old middle class English man that has no friends

[Cz]

I rarely pay attention to reviews, even from official sources. Unless you know nothing about the product in question, then you go into the review with certain expectations that the reviewer is never likely to meet. Sometimes it's because they're just a complete idiot, like the guy you quoted, but others it's simply a difference of opinion between the reviewer and yourself. That can be quite good for a laugh (the angry responses to poor reviews in the NME's letters page is highly entertaining) but it's hardly something worth worrying about.

[Aurey]

Pitchfork has loads of bad reviewers.

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[Iceglow]

more often than not games today aren't reviewed on what deserves meriting such as the storyline, the playability of the game (controls system and such) and the re-play value. They're reviewed purely on their graphics and yes graphics that look visually stunning or leave you drooling for a fortnight before the release are nice to see but then would you rather play the visually stunning 2 hour long, crap storyline full of holes and crappy controls or the visually not so stunning or even dare I say it poor 170 hour storyline that has depth greater than that of final fantasy 7 and controls better than anything you ever used before?

Personally I ignore a games review I make my own judgement, I have little interest in games of sports aside from the tony hawks and dave mirra series (though bmxXx works well 'cause the engine is that of Dave mirra 3) so I'll either pick a copy up out of my local blockbuster or if I am desperate go to the local independant games store and try it out.

[Captain Maxx Power]

My buying tactics usually follow what is commonly top of avg. thoughts on the thing.

[Elite Lord Sigma]

I never listen to reviewers, because more often than not I find myself disagreeing with them.

[Sephex]

If I ever feel like pissing myself off I go read reviews at gamefaqs.

[Perducci]

This one time I read a review of Evil Dead: Army of Darkness and the guy gave it one star and so I nearly put my fist through the screen.

Anybody who dislikes that movie should be thrown to the deadites.

[Old Manus]

Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing is the best game ever.

EDIT: It's WINNER, hoho

[Malboro_Menace]

Well if I c any1 hoo strts 2 tlk lik dis then I generally regard the review as utter bull[img]/xxx.gif[/img][img]/xxx.gif[/img][img]/xxx.gif[/img][img]/xxx.gif[/img] from some guy who can't spell at all.

I don't usually like reviews. You should try it out for yourself and see if YOU like it. Not some faggot with a keyboard.

[Khaotic]

I usually buy games based on their reviews, though I can disagree with the people, for example, Gamestats gave Suikoden III somewhere in the 8.5 or so range, I didn't like the game at all.

I don't do this with everygame, though, like Final Fantasys i'll buy no matter how good or bad they are, thats just the way it is for me. :P

[PontiusPilate]

Yeah, u cant really say "i dont listen to reviews". I mean dont just look at one, look at alot of them. If lots of people are giving games 6 and 7's out of 10 then the game probably sucks

[-N-]

I've only used Rotten Tomatoes for movies, which tends to be on the ball, and GameFAQs for video games, which averages out the moronic reviewers. It works out.