Before taking another step, I should say that I don't have an answer to this question. I'm not trying to tackle this from some sort of authoritative position on high. It's just something that I've often seen over the years, and want to articulate my own thoughts on it while also hopefully engaging whomever stumbles across this article, generating a little bit of discussion in the process.
But yeah, reviews.
It would seem that a lot of gamers really care about these things. REALLY care about these things. Of course, reviews are important in helping us determine whether something is worth investing our time, money, or llamas in. Even I check reviews before deciding whether I want to buy a game, see a movie, read a book, or whatever. It's just nice to have some basic idea of what to expect from the thing in terms of its quality. However, in the realm of gaming this seems to be the central focus of so many. Game X comes out, there's the Day One Reviews, and people flock to them.
