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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


>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

Different strokes for different folks I guess.
-- 
Rob