Do your friends ask your advice?

[Sprite Machine]

I would have told him to get NFS:U over Burnout 2.

There is a boy-racer inside us all. Not sure if this is a good thing, but I do like this game.

No it's not a godd thing because the more shit you buy the more shit gets made because that's what they think you want.

Considering how many NFS:U has sold (and will sell), I think it's fair to say it is what most people want.

I don't bother giving advice unless it is specifically asked for.

My friend bought Star Wars Rebel Strike and thinks it's excellent. What good would informing him of the 5/10 Edge score (for example) do? Nowt. He'd still enjoy it (as I'm sure many of you are too).

[HPS]

As most of my gaming friends buy more games in a month than I buy all year, I am normally the one asking for advice.

Nobody listens to me.

[ChrisN]

Plus, get off your high horse bawbag. I'm not questioning their taste in games, I'm trying to help them not waste £40 a go. The reason they tend to ask us for advise is not because we are some all knowing gaming guru, but rather that we are serious about our hobby and they have been caught out buying a really bad game (in their opinion) as they don't follow the gameing scene as much as we do.

The point is though, unless I've underestimated the number of games you buy, all you'll be doing is mindlessly regurgitating the opinion of Edge, or Games TM, or some other mag. You don't know. You haven't played all these games. Magazines frequently get it wrong. Take MK:DD as an example. Would you recommend it? Edge said it was dull. How can you really know unless you have played it?

You're just another boring 'hardcore' gamer listing Ico, Rez, Ikaruga, Halo, etc etc as 'the best games'. Honestly, there are people out there who actually prefer MOH:FL to Halo, who prefer SMS to Ico, who think Rez is a silly linear shooter with a musical gimmick.

Surely the best advice to give your friend is to buy NFS:U, and take it back if he doesn't like it? Unless you really think Edge can never put a foot wrong?

[Hawkeye]

Plus, get off your high horse bawbag. I'm not questioning their taste in games, I'm trying to help them not waste £40 a go. The reason they tend to ask us for advise is not because we are some all knowing gaming guru, but rather that we are serious about our hobby and they have been caught out buying a really bad game (in their opinion) as they don't follow the gameing scene as much as we do.

The point is though, unless I've underestimated the number of games you buy, all you'll be doing is mindlessly regurgitating the opinion of Edge, or Games TM, or some other mag. You don't know. You haven't played all these games. Magazines frequently get it wrong. Take MK:DD as an example. Would you recommend it? Edge said it was dull. How can you really know unless you have played it?

You're just another boring 'hardcore' gamer listing Ico, Rez, Ikaruga, Halo, etc etc as 'the best games'. Honestly, there are people out there who actually prefer MOH:FL to Halo, who prefer SMS to Ico, who think Rez is a silly linear shooter with a musical gimmick.

Surely the best advice to give your friend is to buy NFS:U, and take it back if he doesn't like it? Unless you really think Edge can never put a foot wrong?

Well once again you prove yourself to be completely wrong.

How do you know what I'd recommend? To be honest I see nothing wrong with somebody buying MOH or NFS:U, sure they aren't the greatest games ever made but they will please most gamers. I'm not daft enough to think the games I like will be the ones they enjoy.

"who prefer SMS to Ico, who think Rez is a silly linear shooter with a musical gimmick."

That's me. I find Ico boring as hell, hated having to drag Yorda about, and I loathe Rez. I also pfrefer SMS to Mario64.

Not all "hardcore" gamers fall in to your idea of how they should behave.

[dam_aks]

I would have told him to get NFS:U over Burnout 2.

There is a boy-racer inside us all. Not sure if this is a good thing, but I do like this game.

No it's not a godd thing because the more shit you buy the more shit gets made because that's what they think you want.

It's horrible to think how much that game has sold just because you can change the spoiler on the car.

Opinion is entirely subjective.

I don't think its shit.

Thus, I play it.

I do however think Project Gotham 2 is shit.

So I don't play that.

Its horrible to think how much that game has sold just because you can drive round in a car.

[emjay2kay]

Plus, get off your high horse bawbag. I'm not questioning their taste in games, I'm trying to help them not waste £40 a go. The reason they tend to ask us for advise is not because we are some all knowing gaming guru, but rather that we are serious about our hobby and they have been caught out buying a really bad game (in their opinion) as they don't follow the gameing scene as much as we do.

The point is though, unless I've underestimated the number of games you buy, all you'll be doing is mindlessly regurgitating the opinion of Edge, or Games TM, or some other mag. You don't know. You haven't played all these games. Magazines frequently get it wrong. Take MK:DD as an example. Would you recommend it? Edge said it was dull. How can you really know unless you have played it?

You're just another boring 'hardcore' gamer listing Ico, Rez, Ikaruga, Halo, etc etc as 'the best games'. Honestly, there are people out there who actually prefer MOH:FL to Halo, who prefer SMS to Ico, who think Rez is a silly linear shooter with a musical gimmick.

Surely the best advice to give your friend is to buy NFS:U, and take it back if he doesn't like it? Unless you really think Edge can never put a foot wrong?

I listen to you guys on here far more than I do Edge etc. SWAT on the Xbox got 6/10, yet Uncle Clive has been singing it's praises in a different thread, and everyone seems to agree with him. As such I've bought it.

I said to my friend that some people liked NFS:U, as a couple of people on here liked it. Yet most didn't, and most agreed B2 was the better game. Edge said the same thing.

I never intended for my friend to never play NFSU ever. If I was in Blockbuster, holding The Exorcist in one hand, and The Blair Witch Project in the other, and my friend said "Oh, get the Exorcist, it's much better" I'd damn well take the Exorcist home with me. That's not to say I wouldn't rent BWP another day, or turn the TV off when it was shown on late night Channel 4.

[Rev]

I get asked by mates - all take my advice. Parents ask and take advice. They know not to buy games for me "because they look good" and don't for themselves -they have an xbox. They ask me first - or my brother who is generally just as knowledgable about recent stuff.

I've been asked in shops more often than you'd expect - must be 10 times. And I've offered my help an equal number of times to parents looking confused - usually looking for a specific game, but also "he likes game x what should we get".

None of those times have I told someone not to buy something - although if they've asked I give my opinion. I'm also more than happy to recommend something mass-market if I think thats the thing for the job.

Last time I was asked the guy wanted to know which was better - Obi Wan or LOTR:TT. Both xbox. I went for LOTR.

[gwh]

I don't get asked for advice on games, and I don't give it. It just seems patronising to me. Just because one jaded magazine that few gamers read gave a game a less-than-glowing review, doesn't mean that there's no enjoyment to be had out of it.

Take Red Faction 2, for example- I don't think I've read a decent review of it anywhere, but my friend picked it up fairly cheap the other day, and it's really not that bad. Well I can't vouch for the single-player, but we can play four-player for a good while without getting bored. Sounds easier said than done, but some people shouldn't be so pompous about it all. Lighten up.

[emjay2kay]

Take Red Faction 2, for example- I don't think I've read a decent review of it anywhere, but my friend picked it up fairly cheap the other day, and it's really not that bad. Well I can't vouch for the single-player, but we can play four-player for a good while without getting bored. Sounds easier said than done, but some people shouldn't be so pompous about it all. Lighten up.

That's different though.

Buying a poor game for a cheap price is somehting most of us have done. RF2 might have some enjoyment in it. I never denied my friend would get enjoyment out of it. But would you pay £40 for RF2? Knowing that you only get the chance to have a two player, let alone four player, go of it every 6 to 8 weeks?

[Alex W.]

Today, going through Blockbusters, seriously considering renting Enter The Matrix to see what the soundtrack's like.

Flatmate:

"Wouldn't you rather rent something you've heard something good about?"

Looks like my ranting's paid off.