Be honest: does Sup Forums opinion wholly influence your decisions...

Be honest: does Sup Forums opinion wholly influence your decisions? I'm talking about games you enjoy or games you previously did not. Was there any time an user say 'your favorite game is shit' that made you contemplate such and end up disliking it? What about a game that you were on the fence/didn't like but were put on by Sup Forums?

i'll buy old games if I see Sup Forums mention them a lot, i've never been disappointed

To be honest, no. I absolutely loved Horizon Zero Dawn. I always post my true opinion but I'm pretty sure it just reads as a troll post or something around here.

No Sup Forums is so full of shitposting and contrarians it's a terrible idea to take people here seriously.

I usually like whatever Sup Forums rampantly hates on, it's made me consider getting celeste and subnuatica

The people who say "yes" don't actually play games. The more games you play the more you realize 90% of Sup Forums is absolutely full of shit. Take Subnautica, all the threads now are Sup Forums bullshit and the shitposters have blatantly not played the game, they only care about the meta drama.

That's not to say that a broken clock isn't right twice a day, there are games that are shit (or overrated) that a lot of Sup Forums rightfully shits on. But you should always confirm it yourself without relying on Sup Forums. I fucking hate how many retards on this site take memes as absolute gospel. There have always been naive idiots on the internet but it feels lately like more and more people have become, for a lack of a better term, "meme slaves". They have no free will of their own and just believe whatever propaganda is being shit out, and they're PROUD of it.

Sup Forums isn't ever going to make me change my mind about a game I've already played, but it's a useful tool to learn about lesser known games or hear common complaints.

I obviously take criticisms with a huge grain of salt because everybody exaggerates but, for example, everybody in DW9 threads talking about the cloned officers made me decide to save my money. On the flip side, I never would have even heard of games I love like Atelier or Soul Sacrifice without seeing them on Sup Forums.

Sometimes. I bought Tales of Symphonia despite Sup Forums saying it's babby tier trash fuck you its fun but the PC port sucks. Then Sup Forums said 100% orange juice was fun and indeed it is fun but time consuming. Then Sup Forums said ZoE was decent but it's unbelievably boring. The game is basically kill stuff: kill stuff but in another town and then find this thing that we won't tell you about. I'm on mission 16 or so but so don't have the patience to complete 16 or so missions of the same crap, literally


tl;dr: try the games beforehand. Sup Forums has shit taste.

No. I come here for entertainment.

No, not whatsoever

I've been playing games since the early 80s and I feel like the children here are idiots. Just being quite honest.

This place is vomit inducing sometimes. Like months spent on hating PUBG, but then the same year xenosaga 2 comes out and theres 50,000,000 threads about it-- a garbage jap bullshit reycled rpg with uguu characters.

Oh of course not. The thing about this board is that it's full of people who seem to be really bad at games and sometimes even worse at appreciating them. It's fun to see what people think about games I've played but rarely do I see anything insightful.

If I did there wouldn't be any games I liked.

This place is filled with mentally ill liberal teens and "adults". There ain't a goddamn thing anyone here can say to influence me in one way or another. Much respect to those of you that DON'T contribute to the infinite shitposting that is Sup Forums threads, but the rest of you are fucking ridiculous when you express yourselves. "HUUURRR DURRR HEE HAAAAAWWW HEE HAAAW YOUR GAME SHIT HEEE HAAAW" is basically what you do. To even think you influence anyone with a barely functioning brain is just silly. They're just video games.

You can be passionate about games, as am I, really, but they are just games. You can disagree and go into detail about why you dislike a particular game, but most of you fags just want to shitpost to compete with each other and see who is the funnier faggot in the thread, because t he current internet culture makes you believe it's all about who is the funniest and most ironic 24/7. You don't have actual conversations by shitposting memes or being a retard, ironic or not.

Fuck no you people are idiots. Individual posts if they're good arguments, a bit, but never the board wide opinion.

Most of Sup Forums these days are knuckle draggers that think wind waker and Twilight princess are among the best Zelda games.

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The opinions here are really bad for the most part. Recommendations are usually good but the criticism here can be asinine

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absolutely not, I listen to suggestions and I listen to meaningful criticism, I also listen to general happenings, but I cross reference all that with other sources. I never take people on Sup Forums or any board seriously since every other poster is a faggot generally and contrarian, also many are so filled with ideology they are incapable of seeing the world outside a Sup Forums filter, which is completely useless for most people.

Sometimes yes, sometimes no.
On one hand, Sup Forums recommended some really great old titles I loved.
On the other, most of the new ones I really enjoy, such as the newer Pokemon games, generally are extremely hated, but if I listened to Sup Forums, I'd be unhappy and lacking in said games I enjoy, like Ever Oasis.
And then there's games hated by Sup Forums AND all other sources that I still enjoyed, like Legend of Legacy, which I absolutely loved, but is hated for various reasons. Really looking forward to The Alliance Alive too.
As a side note, I generally shy away from MMOs and games with weak singleplayer because I've tried dozens of multiplayer experiences and found that online MP is extremely unappealing and couch co-op is what I like.

In summary, I sometimes ask for old game recs, but never listen to Sup Forums recs or opinions past a certain year.

no, at most any negative mention will make me want to play the game to see what the fuss is about and play with respect to the era it came from.

I played through DmC in it's entirety because of this. Also found out that Bioshock Infinite was the epitome of everything wrong with modern game design because of it.

Granted DmC was pretty mediocre, but it was on the fun end of mediocre. Plus it had an amazing PC port, and I had a toaster.

Every new game is fucking cancer and shit and every old classic is fucking overrated and shit.

t. Sup Forums

>does WHIIRR, here's your controller (dick) and wojak spam central influence you?
While I'd love to say no, it does, just a little bit. While I still love/dislike the games themselves based on my own prior opinion, it's very disheartening when no one else likes it or all discussion of it is of how shit it is. Conversely, if people constantly praise a game in the series while shitting on another I like, it makes me somehow see those fans of that game as a group, and if I engaged with them I'd be engaging with an enemy. This is all basic tribalism bullshit, but it's why I'm so unhappy on Sup Forums outside of some threads.

The only thing that whiiirposting influences is my sides

>a board that allows an ffxiv general on a daily basis
absolutely not

Not really, I try the game out myself and if I like the game and Sup Forums hates it, then I stand my ground and will not change my opinion simply to conform to Sup Forums's shitty standards.

I probably wouldn't have given Cuphead or AHiT a second thought were it not for Sup Forums. I enjoyed both games. A net positive, so far.

good to see the few months you spent browsing the board has been so fruitful, some people have browsed this shithole for many years.

>it's a "Sup Forums preys on innocent retard and gets them to buy a senran or nep game" episode

I never give a fuck about what Sup Forums thinks. I just enjoy the echo chamber as my taste generally align with what I assume most Sup Forums users like.

Only if anons back up their opinions and arguments with strong evidence in a convincing way. So no, never.

No, but sometimes the contrarians will have a point. It's always so frustrating to go online and see the gaming press deepthroating that AAA cock and everyone blindly throwing praise. Sup Forums will sure as hell shitpost, but they can be honest too

gotta say between all the shitposting and the genuine idiots it's hard to find sometimes