Most Influential Game Sites

[Yantelope]

I'm not sure where to file this so I started a new topic.

 

http://www.destructo...es-213567.phtml

 

I'm shocked to see Gamespot as #1 still and I'm a bit shocked to see anyone give any weight to an official XBox or Playstation magazine.

 

What would you guys say is your most influential game site?

Edited October 12, 2011 by Yantelope

[deanb]

How do you measure how influential a site is? For one pretty much all the "influential" ratings they have are within tenths of a degree of each other so surely if one other person rated IGN slightly higher then suddenly it'd swap the whole thing around?

 

Also the survey is limited to PS3 and 360 owners only? What fucking crockpot shit is that?

 

 

(also Yante it's GameSpot not GameStop)

[Yantelope]

That was my dyslexic moment for the day. I guess it's up to the voter to decided but yeah. I would think influential is how much a publication influences your opinion. Funny that the sites most notorious for selling coverage and reviews are the tops of the list.

[Thorgi Duke of Frisbee]

Too bad it wasn't "best site", or Giant Bomb would be right at the top.

[Yantelope]

I guess I should have mentioned, I'd actually like this to be what you guys would rate as your most influential sites, PXOD notwithstanding.

[TheMightyEthan]

Gametrailers would probably be my most influential about which games to actually buy, but for more background info Joystiq is my go-to place.

[Thorgi Duke of Frisbee]

1. Giant Bomb

2. GameTrailers

3. Ars Technica

4. Rock Paper Shotgun

5. Destructoid

6. Joystiq

[TheFlyingGerbil]

The site that influences me most to buy games? It's not on there: GameCentral

 

From that list? Metacritic if I already have a game in mind. I look more at the +ve, neutral, -ve bars than the score, and from there I'll pick a couple of reviews to look at.

[Hot Heart]

I tend to look around for reviews. I like Eurogamer because they don't pull their punches. Same goes for RPS, really.

Giant Bomb do some entertaining Quick Looks, so I usually check them and Game Trailers to see what the game is actually like. Occasionally I do check IGN Video Reviews if I'm impatient. Rare instances I might see what Total Biscuit has to say.

 

As far as general features go, I tend to check around and a few of the biggies pop up on N4G (itself a collection of news from all around, obviously).

[Strangelove]

PSM

[P4: Gritty Reboot]

Rock Paper Shotgun, PC Gamer. I really can't stand a lot of the other sites, though there are some good writers at some of them. Honestly, community feedback is a bigger influence on me than a professional review, though I do like a few of those sites for previews and news before a game's release.

[Luftwaffles]

Definitely GiantBomb and RPS for me. Not sure if TotalBiscuit counts either but he's sold me on many a game. There are some things I've learned to take with a grain of salt on both RPS and GIantBomb (namely the Battlefield series), but I really do like their coverage (recently) of games like Red Orchestra 2 or The Witcher 2. I think I'm just really finicky about details, and I feel like GiantBomb, RPS, and TotalBiscuit (to an extent) give a lot more detail than Kotaku and Joystiq, etc.

 

Or maybe I just really like Quick Looks.

[RockyRan]

GameTrailers. For some reason.

 

Sometimes they're wrong, then other times they're fucking wrong. Still, at the end of the day I'm more likely to pay attention to what a GT review has to say so long as the review doesn't raise any "stupid" flags (RAGE's review, for instance, raised many such flags by insisting on its RPG roots despite Carmack explicitly stating otherwise). I think it's generally a good system.

 

For day to day news I go to Joystiq but prefer VG 24/7.

[TheMightyEthan]

Yeah, I know I've said this before, but the way the GameTrailers reviews are structured allows me to make a well-educated guess about whether I'll like a game or not, even if I completely disagree with everything they say about it. That's why they're my most influential.

[Yantelope]

I really like GT Reviews too but the Achilles heel is that sometimes they show off too much of a game and I like to not spoil a game. Sometimes I'll read their reviews rather than watching them.

[jayc4life]

Joystiq, Eurogamer, Destructoid and RPS are the only gaming sites I've got added to my Pulse RSS reader, so those are my 4. But since I've got the Joystiq feed on a frontpage widget on my phone, that's my main one.

 

But I'm also a huge fan of Giant Bomb's video presentations. Just that doesn't translate too well when viewing on a phone RSS reader.

[DocSeuss]

RPS, easily.