annoying reviews

Im getting rly annoyed about all of my favorite games getting crummy reviews... such as coded arms, haze, lair, The Darkness, and monster hunter freedom.
i rly enjoyed all of these games as have many of my friends and im beginning to distrust many reputable reviewing sources... is anyone else having this problem or do i just have poor taste in games?

[BKFraiders7]

poor taste in games....lol.

Great taste in sites.

[crait]

What sites?
Whenever I used to watch X-Play I thought it gave pretty unbiased reviews.

mostly game informer.... i didnt mean just sites though ign gave a couple of te games bad reviews.

[crait]

Well, sometimes the people who write the reviews don't have the same taste in games...
Maybe whoever reviewed Lair didn't like dragons or Japanese culture.
If you're deciding to buy a new game and want to know if the game is going to be decent or not, I would suggest using multiple sources and reading a few reviews.

I feel the same way, a lot of games I like have poor ratings. IGN seems like the worst game ranking site of all, but I still like to visit it .

Yeah, I agree also. IGN tries and looks for "perfection" in video games nowadays.

And what I also find rather odd sometimes, is crappy games getting somewhat good-ish reviews.

[DarkPacMan77]

gamespot.com isn't so bad for reviews, but, I don't read ANY professional review sites or magazines in order to find out how a game is. If anything, I'll read for information, but if I want to find out how a game really is, I read the reviews from the gamers or members of the sites. It takes longer to sift through user reviews but it's much more worth it in my opinion.

-DarkPacMan77-

I agree with DPM, i do that too. Gamespot has a good setup for user reviews and ive been pleased with the amount of time they put into user reviews there.

[ace]

I've never really liked any websites reviews. Same goes for me, I never believe they give what games deserve. I prefer to look at the pictures though. If the pictures are good, then I will try it out :p

im beginning to think its because people set everything to the same standards as games like cod4 and gta5.... which is.. lets face it rly unreasonable...