How do you choose your video games?

Usually I just see what new releases have come out on things like Steam (or the pirate sites I use) and see if anything at all seems interesting. Picked up IXION recently that way, seems alright so far. I don't trust "critic" reviews from gaming sites at all, so stuff like Metacritic isn't too helpful for me. Steam's reviews are usually a bunch of unfunny jokes, but there's occasionally a pretty good one that highlights strengths and flaws and gives an idea what the game is like. The average score is also helpful in knowing whether or not the game released in an unfinished, buggy, or unbalanced state (usually Mixed reviews or worse, overall.)

Honestly, looking back over the past year, I haven't really gotten many new games. It's been pretty barren for me. Mostly I've been sticking to games I've had for a while, or ones that have released new content, like Rimworld.
 
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A little bit of everything. Meta. Word of mouth. In hand gameplay footage. Although I tend to buy no new games anymore and buy retro stuff. But when I do, I typically wait until DLCs are completed specifically with fighting games and then buy them for $20.
 
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Generally when a streamer plays something new.
At least with Wrestling Empire was the case, and was pretty cool.
 
Does the game trailer and summary actually describe to me a GAME? As in, do I get to see gameplay? Am I given an understanding of the mechanics? Are the creators confident enough in the GAME they made to present it to me, or are they going to be cowards and try to make a generic movie trailer out of it? If the case is the latter, I dismiss it entirely. For the former, it depends, but usually I wait between a week and a month to get the unfortunately necessary scoop on shit like unfinished content, spyware/bloatware "features" , bad performance, etc.
 
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Usually it's if it looks fun, or in some some rare cases like fucking Genshin and Fortnite I get into it for a hehe haha funny moments type of deal but then end up enjoying the game and getting fucking hooked into the damn thing full force while the friends that gave me the push to actually play the thing start barely playing it whenever I'm online. I brought this up before in the Genshin thread but I literally only started playing Genshin because there was a character that looked like Mario as an anime girl and when I kept going "OH SHIT IT'S MARIO!" my friend got increasingly fucking pissed at me because he paid 40 dollars on rolls for the fucking character. I ended up getting the little shit too but with 0 dollars spent. It was the funniest shit, and a great time was had by all in the co-op afterwards. I don't think he even has the game installed anymore though lmao.
 
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if something is distinctive and unique, I'll usually at least give it a look. I also look for certain dev pedigrees or influences.
 
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Usually it's if it looks fun, or in some some rare cases like fucking Genshin and Fortnite I get into it for a hehe haha funny moments type of deal but then end up enjoying the game and getting fucking hooked into the damn thing full force while the friends that gave me the push to actually play the thing start barely playing it whenever I'm online. I brought this up before in the Genshin thread but I literally only started playing Genshin because there was a character that looked like Mario as an anime girl and when I kept going "OH SHIT IT'S MARIO!" my friend got increasingly fucking pissed at me because he paid 40 dollars on rolls for the fucking character. I ended up getting the little shit too but with 0 dollars spent. It was the funniest shit, and a great time was had by all in the co-op afterwards. I don't think he even has the game installed anymore though lmao.
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I shouldn't ask, but...what character is that?
 
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I shouldn't ask, but...what character is that?
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Klee, a character that's literally some small child with a compulsion to burn things. The in game lore is literally that her adventurer parents taught her how to make bombs and then fucked off leaving her in the custody of the local authorities. The kid has the rank of Knight solely because they need to keep tabs on them it's pretty funny. The character's hat, dash run-cycle, and the fact that the character throws literal Mario looking fireballs as their primary attack tells me there was probably some Mario influence at play given the game's developers are apparently big Nintendo fans and the game as a whole is extremely blatantly inspired by Zelda to begin with.
 
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I generally wait for reviews to come in before I spend money on anything new. Unfortunately, modern day gaming journalism is shit.

Unless it's a franchise I'm already familiar with and have faith in, I generally like to wait for a sale or discount. Every now and then I'll discover hidden gems from YouTubers who have similar tastes as myself, such as Civvie11 and SsethTzeentach.
 
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First I pin a series of games I might be interested in as pie-sliced segments and encircle them together onto a dart board. And then I put on a blindfold and chuck a handful of darts at the diorama and play whatever darts land on which games (the more darts that stick into a single segment is a higher probability that I'll play that particular game first).

Unfortunately, my throwing arm sucks and most of the darts tend to keep missing the board entirely.

It's a dilemma.
 
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Never thought of it like that. Hmm, I suppose now, more of word of mouth and genre.

Since game developers are being sneaky with adding microtransactions post release, it helps that I wait for a price drop and go from there.

Professional game reviews aren't trustworthy like they were before.
 
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