Ok there is a lot of IGN bashing, but can somebody actually post links of these so called "bad reviews"?

Game reviewers are paid off, all of them. Im not kidding, has any big company ever made a game that got less than a 7/10 on any big review page?

for the record, 5/10 is average.

I'd say 85% of "professional" game reviews and journalists are utter crap. I know what I like and TES is one of those things, I'm not going to get something if I don't have confidence in it (if I were to trust any source it'd be my fellow gamers who don't have cash and other incentives swaying their opinions one way or another).

http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/119/1196353p1.html
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ive waited long enough besides the only person who can decide if the game is right for someone is the person who is going to buy the game. come 11 11 11 i will buy my 360 copy of skyrim and lose myself in the rugged land of skyrim and will likely love every moment

I don't need someone else to tell me what I like about gaming. I do read the reviews as entertainment, same as I read sports magazines in the train. The only factors that matter for me in buying a game are my personal experience and/or expectations with the respective series and developer.

I agree with that review. I think Skyrim looks cool, but Dark Souls overall does look better. Mods are the only pro over Dark Souls that I can tell (and console versions will not have mods or Dev tools).

I still laugh whenever I read that "article".

Professional... haha good one. :biggrin:

I don't put any stock in review scores, and more often than not the reviews themselves. Most are bought and paid for ("DA II is the rpg of the decade" oh please, seriously?). IGN in particular is bad about this sort of thing.

I'll occasionally read a review on GameInformers or PC Gamer before buying a game I haven't followed closely but even then I don't pay attention to the score in making a decision whether to buy or not.

I'm much more likely to go to a game's forums or read some user reviews on Metacritic if I want insight into a game.

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I getting Skyrim on the night of November 10th no matter what.
Its a matter of Principal really............

Don't rely on them. Also it would make no sense because I have already preordered and paid for it.

No, I always find reviews on amazon to be more accurate and reliable than "professional" reviews because I disagree on so many things.

I couldn't care if every "professional" publication gave the game 0/10 I will still be getting it on release day.

Honestly i couldnt care less what ign has to say anymore. They are just aweful. If the gamerankings.com score is really low then ill be worried. If you dont use that site you should. Its like metacritic, it compiles all the pro reviews for a game. bliviongate:

You DO realise these are the Skyrim boards.

I don't pay attention to IGN. Generally if I want peoples opinions on a game then I'll take a look at forums or player reviews from sites like Amazon. I've pre-ordered Skyrim though.

yea. so I have to lie and say Skyrim looks better than every other game coming out this year? I am not saying it looks bad, it looks awesome, but it is not necessarily the best game coming out. Especially with so much competition like Dark souls, Battlefield 3 (top of my list), Modern Warfare 3, and Halo CE anniversary.

I've already pre-ordered. The fact that Oblivion is one of my favourite games, so much about this game seems like an improvement and the wonderful things I've read about and watched in the demo videos have all already whetted my appetite enough for me to know this is a game I want and am very likely to enjoy. So I'm not waiting on a review and from what I've seen of the videos, I don't think I'd trust a really terrible review of the game (doesn't mean I expect it to be perfect for either myself or anyone else but I don't expect any bugs, glitches or things that could have been better or things that could have been done instead will ruin my experience. I also enjoyed the last two Fallout games. I've had Oblivion for about 3 years now, as long as I've had a PS3. It's the only game out of the oldest ones I have that I still go back to and play and only Saints Row 2 rivals it for overall playing time or for overall favourite game. I tend to get bored of a lot of games after the initial novelty and so the handful that I still get the urge to go back to again and again really do stand out for me. I love these kinds of games, I think Bethesda does them really well and I am very much looking forward to getting this game.

I really don't need a review to know that my 60 bucks is being well spent on hours upon hours of gameplay.

Professional or otherwise, all a reviewer is doing is giving us their opinion of the game. I can judge for myself what I like and don't like without Joe Schmoe telling me.

"Professional" game reviewers like IGN do not give the correct score.. If they been paid well then its a 8/10 or higher if they havn't been paid its below 7.

I'll wait till the most trustworthy reviewers to review the game and that's players with Let plays or similar on youtube

All scores will be above 9 out of 10.
Oh and btw GT reviews> IGN also PC Gamer reviews are better than IGN ones so yeah i care nothing what ign has to say.

HAHAHAHA! HELL NO! IGN DOESN'T KNOW ANYTHING. IGN GAVE FALLOUT NEW VEGAS AND DRAGON AGE 2 THE SAME SCORE. IGN SAID DEMON SOULS OR WHATEVER WAS A BETTER GAME THAN SKYRIM. FOR ALL I CARE IGN CAN [censored] OFF.

Oh, hell no!

I've fully paid for my CE, and I'm picking that bad boy up as soon as it's available.