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Anonymous No.714000896 >>714001183 >>714001243 >>714001647 >>714001882 >>714001998 >>714002193 >>714003341 >>714004428 >>714004802 >>714005208 >>714005964 >>714007898 >>714011073 >>714011738 >>714011871 >>714012564 >>714012681 >>714012789 >>714012919
how reliable are Steam reviews in your experience? I keep hearing how absolutely dogshit this game is yet it's 85% on Steam
Anonymous No.714000986 >>714001096 >>714009509
I only browse negative reviews exclusively.
Anonymous No.714000987
what are you angry about now op?
Anonymous No.714001096
>>714000986
Basado
Anonymous No.714001183 >>714001634 >>714011405
>>714000896 (OP)
Steamies eat love eating shit
Anonymous No.714001243 >>714007546
>>714000896 (OP)
This game was my personal biggest letdown of 2024. I expected Zelda, at least before they had a difficulty patch it's basically an edutainment game for elementary schoolers. Maybe they played after the patch where it supposedly got better?
Anonymous No.714001256
reviews are generally garbage. people will leave bad reviews for unrelated shit, stuff found in demos, them being bad at the game, them going onto the game's social media and getting their fee fees hurt by someone else, etc., etc. and normalfags only gobble up the most megapopular trash
Anonymous No.714001468 >>714001719
Look at the reviews and what they say. For example, let's say a Spiderman game comes out.

You have 3 reviews to choose from;
>5000 words about how I always loved spiderman, how I love spiderman games, how this is the first game in forever to make me FEEL like spider man

>concise review with decent number of hours player that specifically mentions what playing the game is like, mentions mechanics they do/don't like, performance, story, etc

>le funny joke
You can draw your opinions from any of these, but it's on you if you follow the advice of a retard. It's like Wikiepdia; every article is as good as its sources.

>
Anonymous No.714001491
you need to learn how to read steam reviews, it isn't an indication of an objective score, but rather how satisfied people are with their purchase

if it's a type of game that you know you're into, and it has positive reviews, then it is very likely that you will enjoy it
Anonymous No.714001634 >>714011405
>>714001183
Steamies do love eating shit.
Anonymous No.714001647 >>714002045
>>714000896 (OP)
they're not reliable, some overwhelmingly positive games are complete shit
it's the problem with the stupid thumbs up/thumbs down system that has no middle ground
Anonymous No.714001719
>>714001468
>For example, let's say a Spiderman game comes out.
I already know it's shit.
Anonymous No.714001882
>>714000896 (OP)
In steam you basically got positive rating if your game launches and work, that's enough.

Contents of the reviews are another deal, you can get information from them.
Anonymous No.714001998
>>714000896 (OP)
It's the best we've got in terms of reviews.
Besides that is just looking up gameplay and seeing if something is your jam.

No other source of reviews is worth looking at.
Anonymous No.714002045
>>714001647
>some overwhelmingly positive games are complete shit
It will be the case for every rating system due to normies, every "best games ever" list is 80% shit.
Anonymous No.714002193
>>714000896 (OP)
Visually and conceptually the game is fine. Execution is lack luster. It looks like a game made for children and it plays as a game made for children.
Anonymous No.714003341 >>714003454
>>714000896 (OP)
I look up /v/'s recommended games and only play the games on there. I ignore all reviews.
Anonymous No.714003454 >>714005014
>>714003341
NPC
Anonymous No.714004173 >>714004767
Anything above mixed doesn't mean shit.
Mixed and below means something is seriously wrong, most likely on a technical level.
Anonymous No.714004281 >>714011574 >>714012285
Some games only attract the kinds of people that are interested and utterly repel anyone that would dislike it
This for example is the biggest piece of shit game I've ever played but there are troons and fags in it so those types of people just automatically give it updoots regardless of quality
Anonymous No.714004428
>>714000896 (OP)
I check the negative reviews: if they are retarded complaints (too hard, too long, stupid shit not related to the game itself) or mostly chinese, it means the game is good.
Anonymous No.714004473
They're pretty much only an indicator that something is catastrophically wrong with a game if the reviews are mixed or negative. Most people only bother to buy games they think they'll like and most people bother to leave reviews only for games they liked. If a game still manages to get bad overall reviews, it's because the developer did something stupid.
Anonymous No.714004767 >>714008840
>>714004173
Wrong. An Overwhelmingly Positive score means the game is good at what it wants to do.
Anonymous No.714004802
>>714000896 (OP)
Crop your images better.
Christ.
Anonymous No.714005014 >>714011003
>>714003454
If you don't agree with your own platform, you are the NPC trying to ragebait.
Anonymous No.714005208 >>714005305
>>714000896 (OP)
I miss the days when Devolver published kino like Hotline Miami and not trash made by Tumblr rejects.
Anonymous No.714005305 >>714006925
>>714005208
>Saaar tumblr bad please make edgy racist sexist gory trash instead of progressive woke kino SAAAAR!
Anonymous No.714005964 >>714007135
>>714000896 (OP)
>the game wont run on my high end system
>check profile
>4gb vram card
Still, checking negative reviews and deducting from there is probably the best way to go about it.
Anonymous No.714006925 >>714007235
>>714005305
Tryhard
Anonymous No.714007135
>>714005964
the 3d graphics in that game are pretty high quality for an indie so it actually makes sense it's graphically demanding
Anonymous No.714007235
>>714006925
Good morning sar
Anonymous No.714007546 >>714010603 >>714010761
>>714001243
same reason i dropped it. God i was coping and hoping the game would stop talking shit about how to play the game until halfway progress until i just drop it, i cant stand anymore.
Anonymous No.714007898
>>714000896 (OP)
It depends. Not all reviews are equal and a lot of games are reviewed unfairly whether for good or ill. You should read a couple and compare them to the criticisms you heard to get a good idea of what you're dealing with. I mean, you should know a lot of really good games review poorly and vice versa.
Anonymous No.714008840
>>714004767
Including being slop for the mentally retarded.
Point stands, positive ratings don't mean shit.
Anonymous No.714009509
>>714000986
they're the only ones that are completely honest and objective and also not shitpost clown farming
Anonymous No.714010603
>>714007546
thirded
actual fucking babyshit game
Anonymous No.714010761 >>714010927 >>714011176 >>714011260
>>714007546
There's "Games For Babies But Made By Nintendo So It's Okay" and "Games For Babies" and unfortunately I think everyone was expecting the former when it was actually the latter.
Anonymous No.714010927
>>714010761
Nintendo games don't sit me down and explain the solution to every puzzle before I've been given a chance to look at them
Anonymous No.714011003
>>714005014
Free thinkers don't need a checklist on what to play
Anonymous No.714011073
>>714000896 (OP)
It's a linear interactive children's book. Would be great for small children.
Anonymous No.714011176
>>714010761
honestly i never encountered the former when i only played nintendo games such as pokemon gen 3s, yoshi island and LoZ minish cap, super mario odyssey. Idk much about newest nintendo games, let alone bothering it.
Anonymous No.714011260
>>714010761
Sometimes you get a mix like that Princess Peach game which was 100% just a baby game and Nintendo made it which is surprising because they usually aim for "family friendly" instead of pure bab tier
Anonymous No.714011405
>>714001183
>>714001634
>Steamies
good morning sirs! please do the needful
Anonymous No.714011574
>>714004281
What's so bad about it? I'm not a fan of the artstyle but I was a little interested in this.
Anonymous No.714011738 >>714012336
>>714000896 (OP)
People trash journalist all the time but in my experience the majority of user reviews are equally useless and retarded.
Anonymous No.714011871
>>714000896 (OP)
It's the same problem with rotten tomatoes and binary review systems. A 6/10 game that everyone rates positively will be "overwhelmingly positive" but a 9/10 game that has more negative reviews over small details might be very or mostly positive. This doesn't count the constant reviewbombing either.

It's better to read the actual comments, positive and negative, and then read / watch some reviews online from various sources. I'd avoid shit like IGN for obvious reason, but typically you can find out what a game is like through gameplay and some guy talking about it to determine if it's good or not, or ask your friends if they played it.

At a certain point if a game is cheap enough I'll just buy it if it seems cool. I'm not doing intense research on a game that's cheaper than pocket change.
Anonymous No.714012005
This game is so fucking bad but it has overwhelmingly positive reviews. I am convinced they are bots. I don't trust Steam reviews at all.
Anonymous No.714012285
>>714004281
I don't know much about that game but honestly this is a big problem. A lot of niche indie games cater to a very select audience. Fear and Hunger is a good example of that. Good game, but certainly not for everyone. I for the life of me could never ever get into Cyberpunk 2077 for example despite the fact I SHOULD be in love with it after all it's problems have been supposedly fixed. What game vibes with you as an individual you have to figure out yourself by trying to guesstimate the vibes of a game beforehand, I guess. I really like games with demos for this reason.
Anonymous No.714012323
Steam reviews need you to buy the game, so they automatically filter the people who wouldn't have liked it.
The reviews are only trustworthy in massive AAA games that tricked a lot of people into buying them and later didn't like it.
Anonymous No.714012336 >>714012934
>>714011738
The difference is, journalists get paid for it and have some kind of formal training.
Being on the same level as some rando tard from Brazil does not shed a good light on them.
Anonymous No.714012427
yes they're generally useful. there'll typically be a few autists who write detailed posts and you'll be able to spot patterns and see if the pros/cons are dealbreakers or not.
it's a game of averages
Anonymous No.714012564
>>714000896 (OP)
>syndicated reviews: paid off
>console storefront reviews: ironic 1 and 5 stars
>nintendo reviews: lol
I guess they have to be accurate by default
Anonymous No.714012681 >>714012764
>>714000896 (OP)
Unless the game has a catastrophic bug happen, has serious performance issue or some retarded drama happen, the steam review are always at least 90% positive
Anonymous No.714012764
>>714012681
Because a game has to really piss you off and betray your expectations in some way to warrant a negative review. If someone doesn't like a game immediately after buying it, they'll probably just refund.
Anonymous No.714012789
>>714000896 (OP)
I have literally never heard a single negative review of this game? It's a pretty good game from what I played of it???
Anonymous No.714012919
>>714000896 (OP)
read the negs, see how many are "costumer received product for free", use reviews to find curators that fit your tastes
Anonymous No.714012934
>>714012336
Unless you agree with them, of course
Anonymous No.714013051
You know how /v/ reviews these days are "everything is SHIT and WOKE and SJW and JEW and TRANNY and *shits pants* NOOOOO MOM NOT YET I NEED TO RANT ABOUT THIS CONSPIRACY I READ A 6 WORD MEME ABOUT I CAN'T GO TO THE BATHROOM YET"? Steam reviews are "le funny joke XD gib me rewards now".

Up to you to determine which is more or less useful.