Are you going to wait until you see pro reviews to buy this game (like IGN)? Or will you buy it on faith? Also, if you rely on IGN what is the minimum IGN score you will purchase Skyrim with (1-10, 1 being lowest, 10 being highest)?

I rarely ever agree with professional reviewers. So it doesn't matter to me.

I don't rely on IGN.

I don't rely on (bad) journalism.
The only reason I have a subscription to our major Dutch gaming magazine is because they're actually good journalists and it's fun to read. I barely buy games anyway.

I am a competent and mentally able homo sapien capable of making my own descisions. I have no reason to rely on a meaningless review. If a game looks fun after watching numerous videos (like skyrim) I will get it. If a game looks turrible (like MW3), I avoid wasting my money on it.

"You can't spell ignorant without IGN."
Quote from somewhere, can't remember where.

I'll just look up a couple of reviews before I open the game, but I'll play it no matter what reviews it gets.

I already pre-ordered Skyrim

Ign? Lol. But it's pointless to make a poll with those ratings.. You should just have cut it off at 8.0 or 7.0. Fo:nv was horribly plagued with bugs and suffered with a rating of 7.5 I think? So there is no way this game will get anything less than an 8. I'd bet my soul on it.

I already pre-ordered.

Honestly, it is all about preference. Sure, ones review may influence my decision but you can't be too sure! Heck, hoe would we know the person that reviews Skyrim for GameSpot is actually a RPG fan or not?

Not from IGN.

I have faith in Bethesda though and have already preordered it.

Did OP choose IGN for the second question because they are notoriously the worst and least reliable game journalists, or because they are so mainstream?

I will be curious to see the reviews, but it will not sway me. I am a fanatic for TES and have already pre-ordered the CE, despite all the little complaints I might have.

Never cared for professional game reviewers, never will.

Like I would trust a review of Skyrim from IGNorant. They should go back to dry humping they're precious Dark Souls.

why would anyone who goes on these forums not buy the game this thread is for the wrong crowd plus who
cares what a reviewer thinks who are they above anyone else

I never depend on someone else review everyone has their own view of a "Good game" and there is a lot of times reviews give a game a bad rep cause its not "up to hype" or to their standards. Or a game with enough fame behind it automatically gets great review. I just try to read about a game, try to dig some info on it, and ignore about 90% of what I read on net since the most vocal people are often the most picky and self centered.

I consider my own personal reviews to be of a greater deciding factor as to whether I play a game than anything IGN puts out.

No, I do this with every game I purchase. I'm competent to make my own decisions, and my own mistakes.

I love NV but at the time of the review it deserved that rating, it was in a pathetic state on its release, it crashed and froze so much it was barely playable. I hope Skyrim gets tested better. And be careful with that bet somebody may take you up on it


because they have an easy to understand rating system and they are one of the largest if the the largest game reviewer on the web. and how are they unreliable, I agree with most of their reviews of major games (like Fallout and OB).

Good question about the quality of gaming journalism and, specifically, IGN. I don't trust journalists in general--obviously that extends to gaming journalists. I just can't imagine that individual reviewers don't receive some kind of a kick-back by giving high profile games a better review. If not a kick-back, there must some kind of incentive. I'm willing to admit that this doesn't happen in gaming journalism, but, still, a game--like a book--is hard thing to quantify. Games mean different things to different people. When reading reviews, I usually only look at the technical parts of the review. In general, these guys seem to know what they are talking about. After the technical aspect, though, reviews seem to be rather subjective. In any case, Bethesda has established itself as my favorite developer, so I'll be buying the game for my future PC.

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i find sometimes it's the non-professional reviews that meet my needs and speak my language, more
down to earth with no agenda. however, i read everything that is written on a game i like/lurv :wink_smile:

Ahahahaha, "professional" reviews.

If sites like IGN had any journalistic integrity, I might take their advice for games. But not for Skyrim, which is guaranteed to be good.

Considering my past experiences with Bethesda's games I've pre-ordered Skyrim. As far as I can see there's little they could possibly have screwed up so badly that I'd regret it.




lol IGN.

Pff I am a pro.

With rare exception, they take money to write good reviews (often in the form of advertising space) and they give bad reviews to games their parent companies do not approve of or who don't pay them off.