This game got me to stop caring about reviews.

For some context, I'm 34 and mainly play OSRS (Old School Runesape). Every other game is pretty much just s temporary break from OSRS for me. That being said, I tend to be pretty picky as far as which games I play outside of OSRS. Most games I don't end up finishing or play never play on the hardest difficulty just to get through it at a quicker pace.

I knew I wanted to get Avowed and bought it the day it came out, only thing I watched about it was the Gameranx "before you buy" video just to make sure there wasn't massive server issues/game breaking bugs littered throughout.

I completed the story and was just blown away with how much fun I had through the whole thing. Then I watched reviews of the game and was shocked at how much people dumped on the game. It's baffling to me.

I used to read/watch a video of 3-5 reviews of a game before deciding whether it was worth my time and money and would pass on a lot of games because of their poor reviews. I got in my friends discord and they all said they won't be buying Avowed because of the poor reviews, I then proceeded to watch all 3 of them be frustrated for 3 hours trying to play Monster Hunter but have it crash on them every 5 minutes.