Reply To: Are game reviewers critical enough?

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Tim Snoddy wrote:

Have you bought anything that you could not believe was so poor in play compared to the online reviews?

I can’t actually think of any off hand.  Maybe some of the games in Paddy Griffith’s “Napoleonic Wargaming for Fun”.  I am not quite sure that the brigade game or the army game were really tested too much in actual play as written.

More generally, I am going to write quite positive reviews of things most of the time because if I stick with it long enough to be competent enough to review it, I have to like it enough to stick with it.  I do try and highlight areas that I think other gamers might not enjoy but obviously that is a quite limited way of doing it (I am not going to always know what would wind someone else up about a ruleset).