discussion Do ratings affect whether you download a game?

[john.doe.456]

I don't look at ratings. I find it to be a poor metric as it doesn't account for taste. Some of my favorite games have mid/low-ratings.

 

[MattShizzle]

I don't look at ratings. I find it to be a poor metric as it doesn't account for taste. Some of my favorite games have mid/low-ratings.

And some I find truly awful - such as some blueball ones - have very high ratings on Fuck95. But then they also tend to delete bad ratings for those games. Their system makes it so almost any will have some reason they can give. Or they don't even give one.

 

[SilentHunter]

I trust them with a certain measure of caution. However, the ratings and reviews are only on two sites, which I will not name, so as not to violate the rules. There are a lot of visitors, a lot of reviews, and at the same time there is a transition from quantity to quality, among a fair amount of garbage there are very sensible reviews, large ones, with detailed arguments by the author. It is a pity that there is no such section here. I wrote about 50 reviews, but posted them on another site - for the sake of feedback, it is important, here, alas, large texts are not in favor, but their creation is a lot of work, it took me about 2 hours of pure time to create one review. Unfortunately, the discussion of games here mostly boils down to posts of one, maximum three sentences. This is bad, maybe it's a consequence of the so-called clip thinking? I don't know. The era of Tik Tok, for fuck's sake.
And just for the record, none of my reviews have been deleted anywhere. And I am very critical in my judgments. I don't know what to write to get the review deleted. And as for the ratings, I'm glad that the rating of Summertime Saga, which once thundered everywhere, is sliding down to 3/5, on another site the game flew out of the top 200 with a bang. You can't fool people, they recognize shit easily.

 

[MattShizzle]

There ARE ratings on here but they haven't been used much yet...

 

[claytonjay850]

For me it's more about the subject matter, and the quality of the artwork. If the preview pictures aren't in a style I personally enjoy, then it'g going to be difficult for me to enjoy the game. The game play is ultimately what makes or breaks a game for me, if its too complicated and I have to work too hard to get to the end, then i'm going to drop the game. I'm looking for entertainment after all, not stress and frustration.

 

[qweraswtf]

I dont look at the general rating but i read some reviews to see what people like/dislike about the game

 

[MercurioC]

Generally, yes. I usually try to play games that have a rating of three stars or higher because they give me more confidence that the game will be good. However, sometimes I'll still try games with lower ratings if they have a tag, genre, or feature that really interests me.

 

[Rusted]

Only if awful, the best games i played were 3,5 to 4,5 stars range

 

[wrombo]

Sometimes I have decided not to play a game because of ratings/reviews. But other times I ignore it if I'm really interested in the game or see that it has content I want to see. There are some sites out there where people only complain about games so I ignore those too