Comments on: Not Just Another Gaming Site http://www.guahanweb.com/2009/03/19/not-just-another-gaming-site/ Frolic through the playground of my mind Sat, 04 Sep 2010 11:27:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Hotrian http://www.guahanweb.com/2009/03/19/not-just-another-gaming-site/comment-page-1/#comment-227 Hotrian Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:39:24 +0000 http://www.guahanweb.com/?p=235#comment-227 Accuracy I suppose. Most of the gaming sites I use to get information on games, tend to give bad information or suggest certain games are especially great, when they generally turn out not so well. Even for released games, reviews for games which hype them up, rarely ever get corrected when a game turns out horrible. My most reliable source for information tends to be the public, when I want a game, I usually ask around to see if it's a good buy, and spend time using my magic with Google to find lots of reviews, from lots of people. There seems to be a lack of intercommunication between game reviewers at certain hotspot sites like GameSpot, where they mega-hype games which turn out horrible, and the reviews which mega-hype them, are completely based on one persons point of view, rather than the GameSpot community as a whole. While it would be impossible to have every GameSpot employee review a game, then have it compiled, intelligence towards how a game is, tends to be Biased because you end up with reviewers who only like a certain type of game, and that just spoils the review, and my likelyhood to find a great game. I'm not sure how this can be improved, because GameSpot does offer a community score, where users vote and score games; However to my knowledge you can't search based on community scores, and even those seem biased because you have people who love the game's videos voting before the game is even released. They can't accurately score a game they've never even played! But alas people seem to love to spoil reviews and scores, and good games get buried deep, while games which turn out horrible get all the hype. Btw this entire comment is biased :] I love strategy games, btw Accuracy I suppose. Most of the gaming sites I use to get information on games, tend to give bad information or suggest certain games are especially great, when they generally turn out not so well. Even for released games, reviews for games which hype them up, rarely ever get corrected when a game turns out horrible. My most reliable source for information tends to be the public, when I want a game, I usually ask around to see if it’s a good buy, and spend time using my magic with Google to find lots of reviews, from lots of people. There seems to be a lack of intercommunication between game reviewers at certain hotspot sites like GameSpot, where they mega-hype games which turn out horrible, and the reviews which mega-hype them, are completely based on one persons point of view, rather than the GameSpot community as a whole. While it would be impossible to have every GameSpot employee review a game, then have it compiled, intelligence towards how a game is, tends to be Biased because you end up with reviewers who only like a certain type of game, and that just spoils the review, and my likelyhood to find a great game.

I’m not sure how this can be improved, because GameSpot does offer a community score, where users vote and score games; However to my knowledge you can’t search based on community scores, and even those seem biased because you have people who love the game’s videos voting before the game is even released. They can’t accurately score a game they’ve never even played! But alas people seem to love to spoil reviews and scores, and good games get buried deep, while games which turn out horrible get all the hype.

Btw this entire comment is biased :]
I love strategy games, btw

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