Why You Should Never trust Video Game Reviews

 We have seen it happen over and over again. A great new IP shows up in the video game market only to be shot down by bias reviews and these games never see daylight again. This is more true when it comes to imported video games that depend on decent sales for these developers to keep releasing for the West. Unfortunately, almost every time a new Japanese franchise import looks likely they are swiftly crushed by bias mainstream reviewers who have the worst taste in video games and still hold high positions in America's most influential video game networks.
  If you are a true hardcore gamer, or even a gamer with some self respect, you will mostly avoid the mainstream video game reviews and purchase games that you are interested in and rent those of which your not so sure about. Keep in mind that these "video game experts" who work for mainstream outlets give Call Of Duty top scores year after year even though these games are stale and their sales dropping yearly. These are nothing more than attempts to keep big corporations happy as the reviewer advances their career at the cost of their self dignity.
  I have even seen in real time a major gaming network give a game a horrible score just because their free review copy was sent to them late. You see, if your a developer and/or a video game corporation ( I'm not naming any names .... EA ) you know that for your games to be treated with any kind of respect from the snakes sitting behind desks writing articles about COD perks you better send them lots of free stuff like games, consoles, electronics, ect. These things assure a decent review from these industry leaches.
 Here is a great example of bias reviews : A major video game network ( name withheld ) has been getting paid to put Call Of Duty Ghosts advertisements all over their websites and even on their banners on Youtube. These guys are basically on the payroll of these developers so when the game is released they cant just say " sorry everyone..... we told you this game was going to be great for months and sold you pre-orders right from our YT banners, but; the game is out now and it sucks". No, that's not how it happens..... these reviewers are in the pockets of these developers/corporations lock , stock and barrel. All that advertisement and promotion money gets the game a minimum of an 8/10 even if its the worst game in the world. Come on everyone...... they gave COD Ghosts a 9/10 and that's one of the worst Call Of Duties ever made hands down. Looks like first person shooters are the only games in the West that get good reviews. Sometimes they are forced to give indies decent reviews but even these don't make any sense most of the time. They treated Guacamelee like it was a masterpiece and because of their most strident great reviews purchased the game both for my PS3 and PS Vita only to find out that the game was good but hardly worth a purchase rather than a rental considering the game can be beating within a few paltry hours.
  The very worst is the stated above bad biased treatment of imported games ( mostly from Japan ). These games are eagerly awaited from hundreds of thousands if not millions of fans in the West only to be reviewed by some nerd first person shooter junky thus destroying any chances of future localization in the West. These video game leeches have and will again destroy great import IP's with a single review forcing the Japanese developers to pass Western releases because they realize that these nerds only like first person shooters and even those have to be exactly like the FPS before it to get a good review.
  I have played hundreds of games that reviewers had giving horrible reviews only to find that the majority of these are just fine....... they just chose not to advertise or spend money to sponsor their games on these very reviewers  networks thus the low scores. Stop taking others people words for your own , after all these people have entirely different tastes in not only video games but movies, cloths, cars, ect......... be your own person and learn from your own mistakes, otherwise, your not your own person but a simple tool of another.