how reliable are Steam reviews in your experience? I keep hearing how absolutely dogshit this game is yet it's 85% on Steam

I only browse negative reviews exclusively.

what are you angry about now op?

>>714000986
Basado

>>714000896 (OP)
Steamies eat love eating shit

>>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?

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

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.

>

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

>>714001183
Steamies do love eating shit.

>>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

>>714001468
>For example, let's say a Spiderman game comes out.
I already know it's shit.

>>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.

>>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.

>>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.

>>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.

>>714000896 (OP)
I look up /v/'s recommended games and only play the games on there. I ignore all reviews.

>>714003341
NPC

Anything above mixed doesn't mean shit.
Mixed and below means something is seriously wrong, most likely on a technical level.

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

>>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.

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.

>>714004173
Wrong. An Overwhelmingly Positive score means the game is good at what it wants to do.

>>714000896 (OP)
Crop your images better.
Christ.

>>714003454
If you don't agree with your own platform, you are the NPC trying to ragebait.

>>714000896 (OP)
I miss the days when Devolver published kino like Hotline Miami and not trash made by Tumblr rejects.

>>714005208
>Saaar tumblr bad please make edgy racist sexist gory trash instead of progressive woke kino SAAAAR!

>>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.

>>714005305
Tryhard

>>714005964
the 3d graphics in that game are pretty high quality for an indie so it actually makes sense it's graphically demanding

>>714006925
Good morning sar

>>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.

>>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.

>>714004767
Including being slop for the mentally retarded.
Point stands, positive ratings don't mean shit.

>>714000986
they're the only ones that are completely honest and objective and also not shitpost clown farming

>>714007546
thirded
actual fucking babyshit game

>>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.

>>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

>>714005014
Free thinkers don't need a checklist on what to play

>>714000896 (OP)
It's a linear interactive children's book. Would be great for small children.

>>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.

>>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

>>714001183
>>714001634
>Steamies
good morning sirs! please do the needful

>>714004281
What's so bad about it? I'm not a fan of the artstyle but I was a little interested in this.

>>714000896 (OP)
People trash journalist all the time but in my experience the majority of user reviews are equally useless and retarded.

>>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.

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.

>>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.

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.

>>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.

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

>>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

>>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

>>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.

>>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???

>>714000896 (OP)
read the negs, see how many are "costumer received product for free", use reviews to find curators that fit your tastes

>>714012336
Unless you agree with them, of course

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.