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On 2/8/2017 9:26 AM, Mr Rob wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Feb 2017 08:54:45 -0800, Justisaur <just...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I usually browse sale games by user reviews, and pop things in my
>> wishlist, and buy one game at a time, then check my wishlist and double
>> check the reviews as often something that initially appears high will
>> drop quickly if it's crap.  I've got a few that I thought were utter
>> crap and wondered what the hell people were thinking rating a game high
>> (Ubermosh, I'm looking at you).
>
> I'm pretty much the polar opposite to that when it comes to
> considering reviews. If I like the look of a game I am prepared to
> ignore reviews, unless they overwhelmingly negative, but even then I
> would consider buying a game at sale price.
>
> To be fair though, I used to deliberately buy 'crap' games because
> sometimes they made me laugh through their sheer crapness, and also
> because occasionally I would find a real gem that I really did enjoy
> playing (such as You Are Empty - which made me laugh out loud at its
> crapness but still managed to entertain me as a game - double win!)
>
> Those days are pretty much gone. The recession a few years ago put
> paid to most of the small independent Eastern European studios that
> made low budget games that I managed to enjoy playing to varying
> degrees. All I see now are  minimal effort 'me too' Unity flips that
> don't even make me laugh

The crappy yet funny games tend to get really good reviews on Steam.

I don't necessarily put a game off becasue of bad reviews, but if it's 
getting below about 65% I'm pretty wary and carefully read bad reviews. 
I just find it's good to look at the high review (90%+) games first when 
looking for new games, it's easier to find gems that way.  I have to 
somewhat filter through things I like and don't, and of course end up 
picking things that both catch my eye, are cheap, and are highly 
reviewed.  Even then I've probably got about a 20% batting average.

I'll occasionally pick up more mainstream games with lower reviews and 
higher cost as I'm fairly sure I'll like them, like DSII.  I've actually 
got a higher batting average doing that.

If a game catches my eye I'll look through the bad reviews to see if I 
think whatever people are complaining about will bother me.  Less than 
half the time it is.

>> for the most part, if I pay attention
>> to games that are the kind I like (immediately ignore puzzle & story &
>> anime) they turn out fine.
>
> I hate anime with a passion. This is good example of what I hate about
> it
>
> http://store.steampowered.com/app/585890
>
>
>> Even if I have fun playing a $2 game for a
>> couple hours, that's a win, and once in awhile I end up playing a $2 or
>> $5 game for far longer, and once in a long while I end up finding
>> something that's vying for game of the year for me (Cosmochoria).
>
> I like quantity personally. If a game is less than 4 hours long I
> won't even consider buying it even in a sale. I am a frequent visitor
> to howlongtobeat.com
>

I wouldn't pay much attention to that.  I've seen there's speedruns of 
games - you can complete DSII which I am playing now in about one and a 
quarter hours... yet I have over a hundred in the game and have not 
completed it.

> Different strokes for different folks I guess.