How do you guys know if a game is going to be good and where do you learn your info about games?

How do you guys know if a game is going to be good and where do you learn your info about games?

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after 30 years of playing games i can just tell intuitively

Make new thread
Replace x with game
>Just finished x, did I enjoy it?
If Any Forums says no, it means it's a good game.

This, but 25 years. I have only had buyers remorse once in the last decade, and that's because Code Vein was a pile of shit.

>This
I don't rely on reviews because they're 90% unreliable plus I don't need them. I can tell just from looking at gameplay footage.

Today if I know the game is made by a western developer I know the game is shit.

Back in the 90s, there was video game magazine racks next to the video games where you can open up and read reviews of whatever game recently came out. There were so many gaming magazines I can't remember them all.

Unless you were older than 13 you typically bought whatever had the most colorful box or whatever was the thing you were mostly recently into. I baited myself wasting my birthday money on shitty LJN wrestling games because I liked wrestling back then.

Wait a month. If normies are still shilling it, it might honestly be good. If not, it's FoTM trash and deserves to be forgotten.
Fuck games in Japan are/were expensive. Retro gaming mecca my ass, shit's always around the $40 mark. Only positive is that Japs are autistic as fuck when it comes to quality. Preowned is literally that someone else once owned it and probably never even unsealed it while overseas, preowned means some 8 year old kid baked the game disc in a fucking microwave and fed it to a shitbull

usually the only time i get tricked is if i just don't look at enough information. like i thought Fall Guys would be fun after only seeing a video of the basic obstacle course thing. that minigame was legitimately fun, but every other game was fucking annoying

most genres are shit
most monetization models are shit
of the genres that aren't total shit, most categories are shit
you now only have ~1000 games total
play like 20
you now have things that you can instantly point out in trailers to see if a game is shit
~100 games left
play those

retro gaming sucks to get into now, 10+ years ago it could've been viable now every youtuber is in on it

I make a thread about it on Any Forums

if Any Forums hates it then I know it's bad
if Any Forums hates it but I can tell Any Forums is lying then I know it's good

collecting sucks but we have emulators for every system with good games

I don't.

>150 bucks for megaman and bass

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It's pretty bullshit isn't it. I started back in 2013 and got insanely lucky with shit because nobody thought their old games were worth anything. I think he's a fat retard but I do thank MetalJesusRocks for getting me into the fray before it truly began. Local quarters eventually turned to shit and went to Japan in 2017 for my pilgrimage. Netted fucking nothing. On god, I returned home without a single game. Super Potato is steaming hot shit, Goodwill is garbage, back alley electronic shops in Kyoto are overpriced nothing, such a shame

>Live service
>Hinted at being woke
>EA, Ubisoft, Activision
All red flags, wait for some reviews

i play them for free, then buy them if it's first hour is good

I believe I bought it mint/complete for $20 total shipped from Japan, like 15-20 years ago

Youtube no commentary gameplay + discussion here + prior experience with the genre/series/company.

Youtube gives you a good idea of what the gameplay will be, what general progression is, and a very brief overview of mechanics without spoilers because you get to skip around wherever you want. You can also usually skip hours into someone's playthrough to even tell better. You can easily tell if a game is going to be a mess or not just from some longer lengths of gameplay demonstration. The only issue is that unless you spoil yourself you won't really know the nitty gritty issues that might overtake the game.

Discussion here is something you have to learn to sift through with experience. Yes, there are shills if a game is big enough. Yes, there are people obviously shitposting. Yes, there are people who will tell you to sudoku. But at the same time people here give genuine, honest complaints about things and will tell you without pulling punches what is wrong with a game if you ask specifics. There are also people who are dedicated to a game to such a degree that they will go in-depth about what is good and bad without spoilers just to be honest with you.

I also give a game a bonus if it gets absolutely lambasted by everyone because it makes me want to really see if it was that bad. Bought No Man's Sky (It's as bad as everyone says and still is to this day after all the patches, yes I've dumped like 120 hours into it a year or two back), Marvel's Avengers (It's not as bad as everyone says but the devs cannot do a live service for anything), Kamen Rider Summonride (Yes, it's bad), Little Witch Academia: Chamber of Time (Worth it on sale if you want a LWA VN), and The Order: 1886 (It's a mixed bag and the best parts are the shootouts/guns while the worst part is everything else) because of that as simple examples.

Most importantly, if it isn't an established franchise (and even if it is) I always wait for it to be in the $20-30 range unless impossible.

Yoshi is actually called Yossy?

It's so off putting whenever someone actually writes paragraphs while putting thought to them. Especially when it's on Any Forums of all places nowadays.

back then?
>buy game
>look at back of box
>wow okay looks cool
>buy it
>good chance you'll enjoy the game
now?
>make thread on Any Forums
>op pic is porn
>rest of the thread spirals down to porn posting
>game does not get talked about for more than 5 posts before it gets archived or 404'd
>lather, rinse, repeat