Something that I've noticed during the past 8 or so months on the Internet is this growing hatred for video game reviews. It's always been there, yeah, but I've noticed an unusual increase recently. On different sites, different message boards, and even chat rooms, whenever someone brings up a review for a game, the response is almost the same: "reviews are useless, play the game yourself and decide". It's really getting on my nerves at this point because of how stupid that statement is. People rely on reviews so that they won't waste time and money on something they might not enjoy. It really makes me think that these are either kids that have their parents buy them games or extremely rich people.

You know what's even more annoying? The people that are always complaining? The reviews aren't aimed at them. The people that hate reviews are the ones that already made up their minds, way before the games are even released, that they're going to buy them and enjoy them.

So why are they going through the trouble of reading negative reviews of games they love, hell, why are they reading reviews at all when they constantly moan about not trusting reviews? Do they get off on it in some kind of masochistic way? All that wasted energy and time could have been used for playing their games. Why, what's the point? Do they feel they need to defend the developers because they think their feelings were hurt? I can understand when people get bent out of shape because of a stupid review on Gamespot stating Doom II XBLA feels dated and such, but that doesn't mean all reviews and all reviewers suck.

Isn't it enough to enjoy the game?