Never watched Digital Foundry but Ive been playing Trails In the Sky (rpg by Falcom) a lot since I got the CRT tuned up and UH… I really like that I can crank the refresh to 85hz and set the frame rate to automatic.
I’m about to really start caring about frame rate I think.
i do lots of background research and i’m broadly interested in criticism as a practice but i also hardly know any videogame critics past or present worth taking seriously both in terms of critical perspective and as writers (let me know if i’m missing any!)
i like faqs they kinda count as reviews. no one thats written a gamefaq has been able to keep their opinions out of it and its really special
i dont think ive read a professional review seriously in over a decade except to make fun of the dumbass who wrote it
I like reviews because sometimes people are easily frustrated by the same stuff as me and that helps me avoid stuff that would be a bad match for me.
I mainly lurk on here for recommendations and it’s served me pretty well, other than purchasing a bunch of aspirational schmups I will never play past the first few minutes, because I am bad. (Except for the raiden collection for iOS which I spent a million hours with)
The idea of reading steam reviews horrifies me because I paint “gamers” with a broad and bad brush. Whenever I do read them they’re usually fine and useful.
One thing I do, not as a strategy per se but just as it happens, is start watching a longplay and sometimes stop it and get the game if it looks interesting enough. That’s never ever my intention when I start watching a longplay but it happens frequently.
I read reviews for fun which is weird because they usually aren’t fun.
Anyhow that’s how I roll 
Me, I’m great and my opinions are all stellar, unfortunately my writing is constrained to shitposting on selectbutton dot net
i never consider reviews, only my friends views.
When new fighting games come out I will obsessively read message boards and Steam reviews and Discord chats for information on the netcode, even though very few FGs actually use rollback netcode and 99% of the people discussing FG netcode are totally ignorant so the answer is almost always “shit sucks”.
I don’t remember the last time I read a professional review for anything.
At this point in my life I know what I like and that’s like…3 games. That ain’t gonna change. I ain’t gonna find more room in my heart for more games, and I think that is good.
only to see if a port is good or bad (like how all the resident evil ports on switch have some sort of problem where they run like shit)
I check metacritic and mentally DQ every game that has less than 85, just as god intended.
I think review scores are like ads in that I hope they don’t affect me but they most assuredly do
Metacritic is a good way to see the mainstream western appeal of a game. Usually a game with a low score will be a little too rough and a game with a high score a little too safe
remember a couple of years ago people made a joke site based on idle thumbs called “objective game reviews” and every “review” was just dryly listing the features with no opinions
but the problem was that they covered such a wide variety of games and the descriptions were so good it was way more useful than 99% of actual review sites
they should bring that back