Honest to God the reviews are jading and I've had lots of fun with games I thought I wouldn't care for and I've disliked games I thought would be good. Based on Steam reviews and such.
Because whether you like a game or not is often up to feel or preference. I wish demos made a return instead. I miss playing a game for an hour or two before you buy to make sure you'd at least enjoy the feel of the gameplay loop. Steam's virtually done it with their <2 hour refund policy, but I just wish more games offered free demos, without needing to pay to get a feel for the game.
Demos are great, you actually get a feel for it. They have game Trials on the PS Store for demo play and it'd be good to see more of that return to the industry.
I found I had a better chance of enjoying a game if I went in blind, because bad reviews spoil your first impression and good ones set expectations.
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u/ShawshankException Sep 12 '23
The gaming community completely shits on game reviews until the second it validates their opinions