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After Destiny, do you trust the games media more?

Destiny was a title that was hyped beyond belief and had a massive marketing campaign behind it, yet quite a few game review sites were critical of the game's failings and scored it accordingly. Do you trust them more now as a result?
 
I can't help but feel it's a result of #GAMERGATE. Whether or not that's true, I like how honest the publications seem to be about Destiny.
 

Gray Matter

Member
This time around I don't fully blame the games media for hyping destiny. It was mainly bungie/playstaion/activision with their vigorous marketing that sold people on it.
 

kiyomi

Member
Destiny's hype was almost entirely down to Activision spending half a billion dollars on the damn thing.

If anyone is guilty of hyperbole, it's people who bought into Activision and Bungie's lofty promises.
 

jeffers

Member
Think they need to try temper hype more.

I mean we've had Watchdogs titanfall and destiny this year; all pretty hyped.
 
Maybe the game was so underwhelming, even the media knew they couldn't pad the reviews without raising lot of suspicion? I haven't played it so I don't know.
 
uhhh...what?


a lot of games media peeps were very skeptical of destiny pre-alpha/beta as did a lot of gamers.

then the games media turned around post-alpha/beta just like a lot of gamers.


it is also nice to know that the "alpha" wasn't really an alpha. an alpha should be more rough and be way buggier than what bungie showed. that was almost a demo, tbh.
 

Kezen

Banned
I don't know if I "trust" them more but I sure as hell did not expect a hugely marketed AAA game from a well known developper to get such reviews.
 

Kssio_Aug

Member
Not yet... but I have to say I'm surprised, because besides my fears after experiencing the beta being exactly what they're criticizing, by the marketing push I thought it would be receving 8's and 9's all over there, just like BF4.

I did not buy the game because I wasnt beleving the hype, and reading the reviews and other impressions I'm happy to have waited this much.
 

Mononoke

Banned
Thing is, hype isn't always to deceive people into buying something they know will be bad (well, maybe on the publisher side it can be this, but I mean on the media side of things). They genuinely are excited for the game. They can't know how the final game will turn out until it's actually done, just like we don't know. My issue I think, is that I think as gamers, the media needs to step back and stop letting their excitement effect their work. I know, that sounds like an impossible thing to ask. I guess what I'm really trying to say is, I don't think the press should be participating in the hype machine part of the marketing.

It's cool to report on a game, but some of the fluff pieces are really gross.
 

mephixto

Banned
We have part of the guilt. After the reveal almost every gamer was hyped for Destiny, the media only followed were our hype lead them.
 

meppi

Member
I don#t trust them any more or less than before.

Pretty much.

And I wasn't someone who got hyped by them in the first place because I didn't know anything about the game besides what I played myself in the Alpha&Beta.

A few select people I trust, the others I just ignore.
This has worked wonders for me in the past and I'll keep doing this because most of the big sites are nothing but a joke and have been for a long time.
 

Frog-fu

Banned
Didn't trust them in the first place. I was well aware Destiny would be a disappointment after the beta. I bought anyway just so I could have something to play with my buddy. This drought sucks.
 
Actually, I'm enjoying Destiny far more than review scores suggest, so if anything it reaffirms my stance of not listening to subjective reviews and making my own decision.
 

MBR

Banned
Nope. The reviews seem honest enough, but the bigger outlets let us all fall hard for the hype, when they most likely already knew that the game would be disappointing in the end.
 
Uhhhh. People have been skeptical of Destiny.

The people lying to you were Activision and Bungie.

If anything you should be mad at the games press for not putting Bungie's feet to the fire.
 
I think having time to sit and digest the game instead of rushing to release the reviews at 12 on midnight of the day of release helped in a lot of ways.

I think it made reviewers settle down and review it with a little less hype clouding their eyes. Furthermore it let them get the "real" online experience of the game, rather than make assumptions due to their limited player-base experience.

Futhermore, Jeff Gerstmann Tweeted this today:

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Internet outrage over low review scores is way down for Destiny, likely due to the game actually being released before the reviews came out. I bet there would have been a lot of childish outrage if these reviews came out before release.

Seems like it ended up being a good thing all-round, really.
 

Raide

Member
Its still just their opinion on the game. Until you get unbiased reviews, I won't ever fully trust them. I use them more for just seeing how opinions vary, since I am savvy enough to make my own choices when it comes to what games I buy.
 

spookyfish

Member
These are the same outlets that hyped the game up relentlessly in the first place.

Exactly. From the early days of EGM this has been the practice. Have awesome previews, talk amazingly about the upcoming game, put it on the cover, then review it poorly and forget about it.
 

LiquidMetal14

hide your water-based mammals
Also, think about this; reviews matter to those too invested in a title. If you know a game is going to be just right for you, then why do you need a grade to validate your personal interest in a game?

And what do some hold reviews in such high regard when these kinds of threads come up?

Do reviews matter or not? I can't keep up with the revolving door policy lots have.
 

nib95

Banned
Do you still trust NeoGAF?

Why would I need to trust NeoGAF when Bungie gave me the Alpha/BETA to try the game for myself? I trust myself, and I trust that I'm really enjoying Destiny (just as I did the Alpha/BETA), and think it's a fantastic, albeit flawed, thus far heavily underrated game.
 

MegaMelon

Member
Eventually, you learn to use reviews to compliment your decision on whether or not to buy a game, rather than make it the sole reason.
 
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