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Critics of games, music, films, etc.
Assuming the majority of us are sensible and will respond with "yes, but I don't let their opinions become my own", what would you say is more damaging to consumers: making decisions based purely off critical reception or the opinions of a specific critic/website ("I won't buy anything that scores lower than 80 on Metacritic!"), or blindly buying/preordering things that you essentially know nothing about based largely on marketing and/or brand loyalty ("there is no possible way this game can be bad - I love 'Aliens' and 'Borderlands'!")?
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I often decide whether to see a film in theatres or not based on the reception it got. Critics are often right on the money, but sometimes they are totally full of shit. Eg. the Hobbit scoring 67% on Rotten Tomatoes. I'd give it a 90%+ easily.