listening to game review sites are dumb for multiple reasons.
1. the people reviewing the games are never even good at video games period. Im talking across the board. They are nerds, yet suck at video games. shyt is insane
2. They usually play the game for like 30 minutes or some shyt and then give a 30 minute speech about the 30 minutes they played
3. Payola, it exists just like any other platform like gaming review sites/magazines.. Medium size companies got the $ still to make sure they come prepared with whatever they need to make sure they get a good or decent review. "Yeah I know you are just testing our game on xbox1, dont worry about it, just keep the xbox1

I think you said your brother wanted one right

its on us

"
4. The large companies are too large for them to get bad reviews from known sites now for the simple fact the large companies have enough clout to not fukk with them the sites/magazines and can just stop giving them exclusive shyt/interviews. Theres nothing IGN could do to Activision or Blizzard at this time except suck they dikk with reviews
Just seen Diablo 3 sold 20 million copies. Also seen it got many 5/5 and 9/10 reviews from sites

shyt was the most garbage Diablo in the series by far

It might of sold a lot, but no one playin that shyt after a month or two after they beat it
Diablo 2 had people playing YEARS after
just to give one of the thousands of examples