I always make a point to at least look at a few of them. Sometimes it's ragebait, but there have been a few times where the review has actually mentioned something that was a deal breaker for me.
this post was submitted on 07 May 2025
504 points (97.0% liked)
Gaming
4659 readers
882 users here now
!gaming is a community for gaming noobs through gaming aficionados. Unlike !games, we don’t take ourselves quite as serious. Shitposts and memes are welcome.
Our Rules:
1. Keep it civil.
Attack the argument, not the person. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Good faith argumentation only.
2. No sexism, racism, homophobia, transphobia or any other flavor of bigotry.
I should not need to explain this one.
3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.
Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.
4. Try not to repost anything posted within the past month.
Beyond that, go for it. Not everyone is on every site all the time.
Logo uses joystick by liftarn
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
I get a lot of good information from bad reviews, just by having a bit of introspection.
“This game is too easy!!”
Oh, that’s okay, I was looking for something easier.
“Two body types!!”
Oh, wow, so the only people that hate it are bigots.
“If you die once to the first boss, then it kneecaps your stats and you get no healing items for half the game.”
Wait, what…? But everyone else loves the game. Is this true?
“lol it’s fine, only scrubs die to the first boss, if you do just restart the 3-hour intro.”
Are these reviewers paid!? No thanks.
This game I had on my wishlist came out recently. All 12 reviews are negative. Ouch. I'm thinking I shouldn't play it.
The people who are first to review are those that strobgly dislike it and closed it early (or with some point to make). Everybody that strongly likes it is busy enjoying it and won't review until they take a break or are done.
Give it time and see the reviews in a couple days.
There's only 12 reviews, you get 2 hours within 2 weeks of buying to return the game. There's no downsides for you to try it
True, but the game is a sequel and I didn't really like the first one. I was hoping the sequel would be better. It seems not.
You won't know until you try it. Don't pay attention to what others say. I made this mistake countless times with games then when I eventually played them, I loved them. Give it a go. If you don't like it, refund it.
Perhaps I'll give it a try. I'd have to finish the first one first.
Which game?
It's a horror game called Dollhouse. The sequel is called Dollhouse: Behind the Broken Mirror.
4,572.1 hours played. "Not Recommended"
Come on man do you hate yourself?
I think i already commented on this somewhere else, but a lot of bethesda games are like that for me. The vanilla game is kind of shit, but with a lot of mods it can kind of be hammered into something I enjoy. it's still kind of bad, but sometimes you just want to eat junk food. I wouldn't recommend someone go to McDonalds, but sometimes it's just right there and it's easy.
I read one recently that complained the devs didn't listen to them about this one extremely specific sounding request, and therefore cannot recommend it.
The review was at like 1400 hours, and they played 1900 hours.
Which means for another 500 hours, they continued.
Usually happens when a game was good initially, but then publishers get greedy and push RMT/pay-to-win/freemium features to please investors.
Maybe not a great example, but I played Eve Online for many years, and while the game is actually very playable with RMT (it feels fucking great to destroy somebody's virtual property they paid 20$ to acquire), it kinda got out of hand and diminished the thousands of hours I put into the game.
Reminds me of Destiny 2. There was a period where the game was amazing, so great to play. Then it hit a downwards slope.
Destiny has the best gun play hands down. It's shame the monetization is so predatory
That makes sense
Alternatively the game gets purchased by a new company, they don't put the same effort into it, the quality of the game played degrades, especially for multiplayer games. It's no longer worth the time now, even though it used to be before
I'm like this with Genshin. I've played it for almost 2k hours, love the exploration gameplay, environment graphics and music, but the monetisation system is extremely predatory, and the character designs and writing are bullshit, so overall I still wouldn't recommend it to others, or only with heavy caveats. But it really scratches my exploration itch, so I'll keep playing it myself 🤷
Yes
I've got that in League of Legends, so yes.
Do not recommend. 8/10 in 2016, 0/10 in 2025. Tread not upon the path.
Yeah that's fair.
Bloom and Rage is a perfect example of this. It’s a complete horrible garbage mess of soulless characters, terrible voice acting, horrible sound mixing, and a trash story and somehow it’s very positive. There are some negative, sane comments. I loved Life is Strange 1, but hooo boy is Bloom and Rage bad. It’s about a band and the music is not even music. It’s very funny, though.
view more: next ›