How do you judge whether to buy a game or not Any Forums...

How do you judge whether to buy a game or not Any Forums? Are there any decent reviewers who aren't shills or just shit in general

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i play the game and if i like it i buy it

I ask Any Forums and then do the opposite. Never fails.

I search 'game name [longplay]'
skip through a tiny bit to see the gameplay
will usually know within 5 seconds if it's for me or not. if it passes that, check the Any Forums archive for opinions, read some reviews maybe
then I pirate it, if I like it and want to support the dev or signal that I want more of this made, I'll buy it

I pirate the game and then play it to see if it's worth it, then I proceed to not buy it

i go to the wiki and look for any melanin rich NPCs and playable characters
if there are any i don't buy it
those money grabbers don't always put them up front, they've started dropping them in the middle of the game
but i'm always one step ahead of them

If you find out a game either by
Twitch or a conspicuously detailed OP on Any Forums BEFORE you hear about it anywhere else
Odds are they have 0 faith in the quality of the product and they're paying people to shill it for them.
There has been all of 2 games that have NOT been shit sold this way.

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Name them

I do pretty much what said for the most part. I used to watch and read a lot of reviews but not as much honestly.

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Undertale and Toejam and Earl Back in The Groove.
Although I'm kind of iffy on Undertale because it's kind of hard to qualify if Everdread being a crossposter between Any Forums and starman.net.

Strat-Edgy's "reviews" of the mainline TES titles are the probably the best videos to watch if you're familiar with the series but unfamiliar with a specific game, but that's just my opinion and I mean who the fuck am I

We had Undertale demo threads back in 2013 or 2014. I would wager that more anons were familar with Homestuck back in the day and that's how they knew about it.

Everdread made some of those threads.

Dunno who that is, is he some notorious shitposter back in the day?

if the review is positive I go to sites that give proper critiques

One of Toby's friends and someone else on Starmen.net, also he helped with asset production for undertale

I pick a random game out and play it, if I like it after a few hours then I keep going.

The last part of this is what I usually do.

Not a lot of the people whose judgement I would trust are left still around on Youtube. Of the big ones Yahtzee and Razorfist honestly aren't bad, Any Forums may hate their styles and videos but their game taste isn't half bad. But I don't normally look for reviewers anymore because even if they are good if their tastes aren't the same as yours you still won't get the info you need.

My methods are this:

>watch gameplay
This is the best way. Sure that means not having it on launch but who cares. If its something with launch or pre-order bonuses its already likely shit.
>pirate and try
This one isn't normally needed today. So many companies are so shit you already know if they aren't even worth pirating to try it and most small devs usually aren't charging a terrible amount of money for their game so its already less risk.
>woke-ness level and censorship
I don't mind stuff that isn't focused around the traditional hero good saves princess formula. I thought Life is Strange was alright for what it was and that was pretty gay, but it was suppose to be and wasn't shoehorned into something that wasn't suppose to be. So that is perfectly cool. But if you can tell its being done for brownie points, its almost always at the expense of a game being fun. I can't think of any example of a game that shoved this in where it wasn't relevant and wasn't shit for it.
>lineage
If it comes from a studio I know has done good work I may go for it without overly looking into it. Example being I've liked every Armored Core game I've played and From does decent games so if they put out an Armored game on PC I would probably just buy it.
>style
Style can be done over content, but usually in games if they care enough to make it look different from other things they care enough to make a good game. Ori and the Blindforest was simple but the painted style was pretty and the game was a nice experience as an example.

I only play two genres and there very few releases in them so I just play whatever comes out.

>How do you judge whether to buy a game or not Any Forums?
I always pirate beforehand. If you can't do that then just play retro shit and whatever Matthewmatosis likes.

>check the Any Forums archive for opinions
this is the part I will never ever do

I search "[game name] sucks" on google and see the reasons people give

Unironically I have found that Dunkey's taste in video games lines up with my own. When he started I remember thinking he sounded like a discount JonTron, but over the years I've watched him and his taste in games lines up with my own, more often than not. I know he's like mega popular now but whatever, I don't watch many youtube dudes to begin with.

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