How dare you sir? How dare you? I stand by all of my reviews. And anyone who has a problem with it can use metacritic!


(which is what I do -- seriously, GOG reviews range from 4.8 stars (total crap) to 5.0 stars (mid-range-good to awesome))

Eh it's just not a GOG thing, I seen people elsewhere defend that game, I also seen people defend Sonic 06 as being a good game and even War Z. People like different things even crap.

Which more often than not happens when they have to justify why they spent money on said pieces of shit.

This is part of the reason I'd been looking for a video reviewer who primarily does classic PC games. It's easy enough to see that any game that gets less than 4 stars probably isn't that great but like Keeveek said I'd prefer to get an opinion from someone who isn't just parroting the popular opinion of the time.

It's especially nice when they haven't actually played a lot of the games they're reviewing because it allows them greater freedom to take the game on its own merits rather than relying on their nostalgia.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRKP3VbI41M#t=00m08s

Which is why I don't recommend getting games on the day of release. Sometimes it may be worth it, but I suspect more often than not the game is not worth the full price. Better to pay $15 for spit than $60.

Part of it might just be that the GOG customer base is having a generally better experience, what with DRM free, consistently priced games with extras thrown in. Happy customers translates to happy game reviewers. I don't doubt that rose tinted glasses for the older games and the general affection towards and desire to support indie developers are definitely factors too.

Oh! Good thing that's just a video not the real website because I'm afraid to go there.

True, since many people rate and review out of 20 year old memories. But you can still get a good assesment by looking out for people who just found the game in recent years or who still play it alot or regularly.

All told, I think we have established then when I'm interested in a game I first look at the reviews THEN I come in here and post a thread about it asking for some opinions. That has saved me from buying, not bad games per say, but some that maybe wouldn't have been great for my personal taste.

To be honest, my memory's good enough about most games I've purchased from my younger years, that I already know what I'm getting into, and thus, I ignore the reviews altogether.

There has been a few occasions where I've purchased games I never got to play back then, but for the prices I've paid, I've never REALLY been burnt.

Not really. On the last page are usually the newest reviews, 'cause nobody has voted on them yet. The first reviews, and "thumbs up" for them, are usually from nostalgic fanboys that often end up being considered "most helpful".

Well, it's not literally true, but if a game is "classic" then its fans will furiously down-vote unpopular reviews, so the last few pages is the place to look for them (e.g. the last six pages for Baldur's Gate have seven one-star reviews, 1 two-star review, and one three-star review, compared to the first ten pages, which have nothing below four stars.

(In fairness, I agree that some of those one-star reviews are pretty unhelpful, but so is "Irs one of the best CRPG i have ever played, same goes with Baldurs Gate 2, I love those game so bad. " and it's still in the first ten pages)

OK, my bad. For some reason I thought "0 of 0 finds this helpful" would be listed after "18 of 64 finds this helpful".

I'll tell you one thing that does irritate me, though. People who trumpet bad games as good, because of mods that fix some of the issues.

There's a very clear and delineated line for me in regards to this. If a game is not good on its own, and that is the package being sold here, then you need to judge said game on its own merits, not the merits that other people added over time, which some people may not even care about.

To me, personally, if a game actually REQUIRES intervention to make it good, then its stock model is either bad, or mediocre, and since we're discussing a stock model, then that would be the point of a review, considering mods or fan patches aren't a part of the overall program.