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Critics of games, music, films, etc.
Assuming the majority of us are sensible and will respond with "yes, but I don't let their opinions become my own", what would you say is more damaging to consumers: making decisions based purely off critical reception or the opinions of a specific critic/website ("I won't buy anything that scores lower than 80 on Metacritic!"), or blindly buying/preordering things that you essentially know nothing about based largely on marketing and/or brand loyalty ("there is no possible way this game can be bad - I love 'Aliens' and 'Borderlands'!")?
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i am pretty easy to please so i don't really take them into account tbh. Mind one of the guys i live with will refuse to watch a film unless it has got a really high review on rotten tomatoes and when i questioned him on it about why other peoples reviews were so important to him he kinda made out that they are the experts so they know best. I think that is a load of rubbish but there you go - the more explosions/violence in the film the more i like it :P