How do you get opinions on games you have never played.

How?

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3D Player 2004

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I personally watch video footage.

Watching video footage like lets plays have convinced me to get games several times. (And my GameCube Accessories)
 
I get them from video footage, articles, or whatever source of information is available. It's exactly how I knew Sticker Star was a disgrace before I even played it.
 
You can't form a complex opinion on a game you personally haven't experienced. It's usually as reliable as a first impression. Something like controls of the game you have to feel for yourself.

But for some games I haven't played (like Ride to Hell Retribution lawlz or some other godawful games), video footage helps a lot.
 
I base my purchases mostly around (non-commented) footage. User opinions are also a factor, but I'll ignore 'em if the game looks resonably interesting to me (got Lair and Gundam Crossfire despite a mixed at best reception and ended up loving both games).
 
My first impression usually comes from someone mentioning it. If it's a genre that I'm interested in, and it sounds like a good game, then I'll look into it further, often by checking with critics like Angry Joe, if possible. If I know any friends who've played it, that's even better because I can ask them what it is about the game that appeals to them and learn more about whether it seems like a game I would like.

Really, though, it's not possible to get a full idea of a game from someone else's opinions. You have to experience it for yourself. But you can get a first impression that is (usually) pretty helpful at deciding whether to get the game or not.

oh and if it's free i'll just go ahead and check it out without looking at reviews, because i might as well
 
I usually hear about a game through the internet somehow before looking up gameplay on youtube or checking if there's a wiki of some sort that has information about it.

If I like what I see then I'll put in on the list of games that I think are interesting and possibly worth the money. If I really like what I see, I'll find out how much it costs to buy and buy it if it is cheap. If it is not, I'll wait a little while and watch some more gameplay until I'm completely sold on it.

I like to play a game before I judge it and I'm usually pretty lenient on a game as long as I get a minimum of 4 hours of fun from it.
 
I don't. I just complain about games I've never played just for the hell of it.

No, usually I do some research about it before I blab about my opinions, such as graphics, gameplay vids, a bit of the story, etc. If I haven't, then I won't give my opinion since I don't know enough information about said game in order to really have my own opinion about it.
 
I steal them from others in the dead of night!

If a game I hear about interests me, I'll research it a bit, gather others' opinions. If I like it enough, I'll buy it and form a proper opinion of it. If not, I'll probably watch a run of the game and form a weak opinion based off that and my prior research and opinion-farming.
 
First I ask either my friends or people I know to have similar tastes to mine about what they think of the game.

If that fails or provides insufficient information, I watch video footage of it.

Last I do something silly. I go to TVtropes and check if the game has any instances of womb levels, because I fuggin hate those things.

But really, most of the time what determines if I buy something is whether one or more of my friends are playing the same thing so we can talk about it, or if I already know what it's gonna be like. With the relatively limited amount of money I have, I can't really waste it on purchases I'm not sure I'm going to enjoy. Which I guess makes me a boring old fart.
 
Pink Gold Tubba Blubba said:
Last I do something silly. I go to TVtropes and check if the game has any instances of womb levels, because I fuggin hate those things.
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Does that mean that you don't like going inside Jabu-Jabu's belly in OoT or Bowser's Inside Story? Actually, IDK if you ever played either of those.
 
I've played OoT. I've always let someone else handle that particular dungeon though, because this sort of level concept is just disgusting. BIS I never played, even though I used to like Bowser a lot, because a whole game with that being the gimmick is very unappealing to me. Also, Starlow seems like a very annoying character.
 
I think there seems to be some misconception about what this topic is about.

The way I see it, the question is not "How do you get opinions on games you never played so you can pretend you played them in order to complain about them on message boards". The question is "How do you determine whether a game is interesting enough for you to buy it".

Forming an opinion on a game without having played it is not inherently bad. It's even necessary if you want to actually buy something.

Unless of course you have infinite money and you just buy everything you see for no reason.
 
The only game that I've really never played but have a harsh opinion on is Sonic 06.

But Sonic 06 is just one of those games that are just that obviously bad that it's wise to avoid it unless you feel exploiting all the glitches fun. It's quite obvious though that I'd hate Sonic 06 even if I played it just looking at Clement's review of the game. It deserves to be known as the Superman 64 of the 2000s. (Though here's the kicker: I've actually rented Superman 64 once :V)
 
Well, first I look at gameplay footage. If I'm still undecided, I look up reviews. But if I think the reviews are quite negative, but I still like the look of the game, I watch parts of a playthrough. I mean, I love Kid Icarus Uprising even if a lot of people gave it a low score.
 
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